Monday, 14 May 2012

What is an 'Activity Type'? | SAP-FICO

Activity Type helps you do define the service / action (example: human labour, machine labour,  repair hours etc)
performed or provided by a cost centre. It forms the 'basis' for allocating costs to if other cost centres or internal orders etc. You may assign an activity type to an operation so that they are reflected in PP. a CO document is created with the costs of the operation allocated from m the cost center that produced the operation to a  production order, when the operation is completed in PP   
You may group activity types into activity type groups for easy maintenance.   
You need to arrive at the activity price which needs to be attached to that particular activity type for planning or recording the actual. The activity price is calculated by dividing the total costs by the If total planned / actual activity quantity (hours, units etc).   
It is not necessary that all the cost centres need to have activity types associated with them. If there is no output from a cost centre, then there will be no activity type for that cost centre.

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