Create Cost Accounting Distributions

Use the Create Cost Accounting Distributions scheduled process to create pairs of debit and credit accounting entries for inventory and manufacturing transactions.

These cost accounting distributions are staged within the Costing subledger and posted to General Ledger after you run the Create Accounting process.

When to Use

As a best practice, run this process on a daily cadence, maybe more than once per day. Your optimal cadence will depend on the trade offs between the use of compute resources and human effort to run and monitor multiple processes against the business need to see up-to-date accounting and reporting information.

Privileges Required

• Create Cost Accounting Distributions (CST_CREATE_COST_DISTRIBUTIONS)

Specifications

Review the following before setting up this process:

Specification	Description
Job Type	Ad hoc job Scheduled
Frequency	You are encouraged to schedule the process to run at least once per day. The process can be run more than once per day, but you should avoid scheduling processes more frequently than necessary for your business purposes. Avoid scheduling the process on a frequency that might overlap. Allow for a lag between the end of each scheduled process and the start of the next scheduled process.
Time of Day	Any time. You can choose any time of day such as at the end of the workday, after the end of shifts, after peak physical transaction activity, or during a lull in physical transaction activity. Another perspective can be to schedule the process to complete in time for regular business decision points, such as before the morning reporting recap of the prior day business.
Duration	Runtime of this process will vary based on the number of inventory and manufacturing transactions and type of transactions. For example, inventory transfer transactions or transactions for lot and serial controlled items can take more processing time.
Compatibility	The process is designed to automatically detect incompatibilities and will gracefully branch around the incompatibility, log errors, and exit when necessary. Nonetheless, it is highly recommended to schedule the processes in such a way as to avoid overlapping process runs.

Parameters

Parameter	Optional or Required	Description	Parameter Value	Special Combinations Required	Notes
Run Control	Required	The run control contains the list of processors you want to run and the cost organization - cost book combinations for which the transactions must be processed.	Run Control Name	N/A	N/A

You define a run control on the Create Cost Accounting Distributions page in the Cost Accounting work area.

Troubleshooting Information

• You can view the status of the process in the Scheduled Processes work area.

• Error and warning messages encountered while running the process are displayed in the process log file.

• When the process is submitted, you can Resubmit, Put on Hold, Cancel Process, Release Process as provided by the Scheduled Processes work area.

• Use the Review Cost Accounting Distributions task from the Cost Accounting work are to view the status and ultimately the accounting distributions that are created for your inventory and manufacturing transactions.

• To run the process, you must have data access to the appropriate Cost Organization and the Inventory Organization must be assigned to the Cost Organization. If you don't have data access to the selected Cost Organization, the process ends with a Warning status.

• If inventory transactions aren’t transferred to Cost Management, check the following in the Setup and Maintenance work area:

  • Use the Manage Cost Organization Relationships task to confirm whether an inventory organization is associated with the cost organization.

  • Use the Manage Inventory Organizations task to confirm whether a profit center business unit is associated with the inventory organization.

  • Use the Assign Business Unit Business Function task to confirm that the Below Legal Entity option is selected for your business unit.