Define the Assignment

An assignment is the description header record for assignment sequences. A sequence is the order or hierarchy that the system uses to process calculations. To allow for multitiered calculations, an assignment can be made up on one or many assignment sequences. For example, in your assignment of Sales Activity, you have two sequences: sales costs by percent of time, and sales costs by number of sales order lines for a customer.

When you define your assignment, you must enter identifying information and specify the order in which the system processes information for this assignment in relation to other assignments. If you create an assignment with multiple sequences, the system retrieves the following default information from the previous assignment sequence:

  • Assignment name.

  • Date definitions.

  • From - driver or cost analyzer based.

  • Based on - driver, cost analyzer based, or index computation.

Note: To create multitier assignments, you must use records from the Cost Analyzer Balances table (F1602) that are based on the Apply To component of the assignment definition. If you have set up one or more assignments to use a result from a previous assignment calculation, but this result definition does not exist in the F1602 table, the system calculates results incorrectly if you run the Assignment Calculations program (R16103) in proof mode. You must run multi-tier assignments in final mode for the system to calculate the results correctly.