Cost Centers and Locations

The Cost Centers and Locations page is where you create new cost centers and link them to locations.

Locations are defined in Reporting and Analytics, and collect sales data in the Data Warehouse.

Revenue centers are defined in Reporting and Analytics. A revenue center differentiates streams of revenue within one location such as dine-in or takeout.

Cost centers are defined in Inventory Management. They are the stock holding store where transactions are booked, such as Receiving, Transfer, Waste, or Sales Depletion.

To use the Cost Centers and Locations feature, locations and revenue centers must be created in Reporting and Analytics and then synchronized to Inventory Management.

• Synchronization creates locations in Inventory Management.

• These root organization levels are represented as statistical cost centers in Inventory Management.

• Revenue centers from Reporting and Analytics are represented as devices in Inventory Management.

Example 1

This example shows a fast food restaurant configured in Reporting and Analytics with two locations with two revenue centers in each location, one for dine-in and another for takeout. The equivalent Inventory Management locations have only one cost center associated with the revenue centers since the goods are sold from the same kitchen storage area.

Example 2

This example shows an airport that is configured in Reporting and Analytics as a single location with each restaurant type represented as a revenue center. The equivalent Inventory Management locations have cost centers associated with one or more revenue centers. The Burger Shop has two revenue centers, but they are associated with one cost center since the goods are sold from the same kitchen storage area.

• Creating a Cost Center
  
• Link a Cost Center to a Revenue Center
  
• Location Level Configuration