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Planning & Calculation Manager
Finance Management is represented by Valuemation Planning & Calculation Manager. It will let you efficiently manage and control current and future IT costs. To help prepare your IT service cost calculations and to give you a reliable basis for financial planning, you’ll have a detailed overview of the costs of deployed resources as well as the usage levels of each of your IT services.
Budget Account
Budget account helps categorize costs. It represents a combination of the following categories: Cost Center, Project, Organization Unit, Cost Purpose, Cost Category, Cost Type and Service.
Comparison Result
Comparison Result is an object combinig Plan Payments and actual Payments. Grouping and aggregation functionality is used to compare aggregated values from different sources.
Comparison Result Persistent
Comparison Result Persistent holds persistent copies of the aggregated Comparison Results. It is used for performance improvement.
Distribution
A Distribution defines how costs are allocated between one Source Element and one Target Element. This definition can be expressed with the help of the fields Entered Percentage and Entered Quantity or with Consumption Functions.
Distribution Detail
Detailed distribution results are stored in this object after performing service calculation.
Distribution Element
Distribution Elements are linking-objects, representing an object in the Planning/Calculation Manager. This objects can have one of the following Element Types: Product Type, Costcenter, Organization Unit, Project, Business Partner, Product, Service Template, Service Type, Project (CCM), Application, Consumer Group 1, Consumer Group 2, Product (CCM), Service Group, Variable Allocation Source, CostCenter (CCM).
Distribution Network
The Distribution Network is the main object within the Demand Planning and it contains Distributions. A Distribution Network can have different Statuses (In Development, Proposed, Approved, Disapproved, …). If the Autorecalculation checkbox is checked, the whole Distribution Network is recalculated, when something changes inside the network. This could result in bad performance for big Distribution Networks.
Distribution Total
Distribution result totals are persistently stored in this object after performing service calculation.
Measure Unit
Measure Unit allows entering quantities in specific physical units and their conversion.
Measure Unit Type
Measure Unit Type allows Measure Unit categorization (such as length, velocity, time).
Organization Unit
Organization Units are used to describe the organization's structure.
Person
An object of the Person object type represents a person in the real world. It holds identification attributes such as last name, person number, contact information,etc. A person can be assigned to a business partner, cost center or organization unit.
Plan
The Plan is the main object within the Planning/Calculation Manager and it represents a collection of logically connected Plan Items. It contains information about the plan horizon, the plan relevancy and the role of the plan. A Plan can have superior and subordinated Plans, they form a plan hierarchy. A responsible Person and an Organization Unit has to be assigned to every Plan. The current position of a Plan in its lifecycle is described with the help of the Status (In Development, Proposed, Approved/Not Approved, …). Additionally, it has a Role (Master, Ongoing, Actual).
Plan Item
Plan Items contain information about planned acquisitions (type and quantity, planned payments, budget account, target distribution element).
Planhierarchy
Planhierarchy is an auxiliary linking object type. It represents mutual relations between plans in a hierarchy.
Planrole
An auxiliary object type used to keep track of plan role assignments.
Plan Payment
Plan payments represent payments generated from Plan Items.
Product Class
A product class groups several product types into a larger group according to some general characteristics pertinent to the procurement/sale/accounting point of view.
Product Type
Product types represent types of IT infrastructure from the sale and accounting points of view.
Project
Objects of the Project object type are used to store in a structured form information on planned or ongoing projects.
Report Configuration
Report Configuration Definition holds definitions of Report Configurations, that is information regarding which objects should be compared, what their mutual position will be and which results catalog should be used for presentation of the result.
Unified Payment
Unified Payment puts together real and planned payments for use in Report Configuration.