Understanding Bill of Services
This chapter provides an overview of Bill of Services (BOS) functionality and discusses:
Prerequisites.
Using Bill of Services functionality.
Understanding Bill of Services
Because many service industries typically offer a wide range of options, Activity-Based Management's Bill of Services functionality enables you to:
Create new and unique combinations of standard services and combine them into a package service.
Apply a standard rate to the new services provided in order to estimate new business opportunities and costs to serve a customer.
You can easily manipulate volumes and adjust to customer demands, and calculate the resource requirements for the new changes in demand.
See Also
Modeling for Service-Related Industries
Prerequisites
Before you can set up your bill of services pages, you must complete your model setup including:
Activity-Based Management model definition.
Resources and ledger-to-resource mapping.
Activities.
Activity volumes.
Cost objects.
Drivers and pointers.
Note. Activity volumes are necessary to calculate a per unit cost of the activity.
See Also
Using Bill of Services
To use the Bill of Services feature:
Establish the service, product, or both.
Link the bill of service to cost objects.
Run the Activity-Based Management engine.
Adjust the rates for the activities related to bill of service cost objects.
Pages Used to Establish Bill of Services|
Page Name |
Definition Name |
Navigation |
Usage |
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BOS_TBL1 |
Activity Based Management, Setup, Bill of Services, Bill of Services |
Establish the service, product, or both within Activity-Based Management. |
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BOS Description Long |
BOS_TBL4S |
Click the Information button on the Bill of Services page. |
Enter a more detailed description of the bill of service you are adding. |
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BOS_TBL2 |
Activity Based Management, Setup, Bill of Services, Bill of Services, Service |
Set up the relationship between the Bill of Service and the cost objects. |
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BOS_TBL3 |
Activity Based Management, Setup, Bill of Services, Bill of Services Activities |
Define the unit quantity and adjusts the rates for the activities related to the Bill of Service cost objects. |
Establishing Bill of Services
Access the Bill of Services page (Activity Based Management, Setup, Bill of Services, Bill of Services).
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Bill of Services Run Flag |
Select to include this Bill of Service when you run the Activity-Based Management engine. Running the engine will then create the Bill of Service activity tables (BOS_ACT_TBL and BOS_ACT_SEQ). |
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Information |
You can enter a longer description for the bill of service you are adding by clicking this button. |
Linking Bill of Services to Cost Objects
Access the Bill of Services - Service page (Activity Based Management, Setup, Bill of Services, Bill of Services).
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Cost Object ID |
To establish a cost-to-service model, specify the cost objects for this bill of service by entering each Cost Object ID. |
Running the Activity-Based Management Engine
Run the Activity-Based Management engine.
This is important because the activity cost data it generates together with the activity volumes defined, enables the engine to calculate the activity rate for each activity performed. This enables you to associate the activities for a given service.
See Understanding Delivered Engines.
Adjusting Rates for Activities
To adjust rates for activities related to cost objects associated with a bill of service, as well as add additional activity such as unit quantity and rate:
Access the Bill of Services Activities page for the bill of services ID you want to update or adjust.
Specify the Activity ID you want to apply to this bill of services ID.
Enter a Unit Quantity and Amount for this particular activity ID.
Click the Insert Calc Table (insert calculation table) button to recalculate changes and view the results. The related activities, their quantities, and their calculated rates display.