SAP ABAP IMG Activity OHBEN1182 (Define Cost Variants)
Hierarchy
☛ SAP_HRRXX (Software Component) Sub component SAP_HRRXX of SAP_HR
   ⤷ PA-BN (Application Component) Benefits
     ⤷ PBEC (Package) Benefits - Customizing
IMG Activity
ID OHBEN1182 Define Cost Variants  
Transaction Code S_AHR_61001937   IMG-Aktivität: OHBEN1182 
Created on 19981221    
Customizing Attributes BEN_00_PE_1_1_E0110   Miscellaneous plans - mandatory - critical - all countries but SE 
Customizing Activity BEN_00_5UBH_E   View V_5UBH_E 
Document
Document Class SIMG   Hypertext: Object Class - Class to which a document belongs.
Document Name OHBEN1182    

In this step you define cost variants to determine which factors influence the cost of a miscellaneous plan for an employee. Variants are plan-specific; each plan has its own variant(s).

You do not enter any actual costs in this step. You simply define the possible ways in which costs for a plan can vary depending on selected criteria. You determine how costs vary for plan options in the step Define Miscellaneous Plan Attributes.

Note that you only need to define cost variants for those plans that you specified as cost/credit-relevant and requiring a cost variant in the step Define Miscellaneous Plan General Data.

Before you start to define variants, you need to do the following:

  1. Determine how often cost varies for different plans and any plan options.

    This indicates how many cost variants you need.

    If coverage is defined for the plan, proceed as follows:

    • If a plan has set flat coverages and corresponding flat costs, define a cost variant for each flat cost.
    • If the plan has flat coverages, and the flat costs are directly proportional to coverage, define only one cost variant.
    • If an employee can choose any amount of coverage within a range and the cost of the coverage is directly proportional to the coverage, define only one cost variant.
    • If the plan has no coverages but different options that have different costs, define one cost variant for each different cost.
  2. Determine how costs vary according to employee data.

    This determines how you need to set up your variants using employee groupings.

    For each variant, you can specify a parameter group and cost grouping to determine cost. You can also indicate whether the gender of employees and whether or not they are smokers are cost criteria.

Example

The Company Car plan has two plan options:

  • Small Car
  • Large Car

Each option has a flat monthly cost, which varies according to how far employees live from their place of work.

The plan needs a cost grouping set up to differentiate by zip code, and two cost variants set up as follows:

  • SMCT - period Monthly and Cost grouping selected
  • LGCT - period Monthly and Cost grouping selected

Requirements

You have created any parameter groups that you want to assign to your variant in the step Define Parameter Groups.

Activities

  1. Select the period for which the variant is valid.

    This period applies to all rules associated with the variant.

  2. Specify the criteria that are relevant to the calculation of cost in the variant.
    1. If required, enter a parameter group and indicate which of the referenced employee criteria groups you want to use.
    2. Set the Cost grouping indicator if you want to use this feature to group employees.
    3. Indicate whether the gender of the employees and whether or not they are smokers are cost criteria.
    4. Specify whether the age, gender, and/or smoker data of the employee, spouse, or domestic partner is used as the basis for calculating cost.
    5. Set the Step limit indicator if you want to define a graduated cost calculation for different levels of coverage.
  3. If, for any of the criteria you have attributed to the variant, you want employees to be allocated to a grouping using values on a specific day, enter a cutoff day. Otherwise the system calculates the grouping based on the calculation base date.
  4. If you want to use a date other than the employee's hire/termination date as the start/end date for seniority calculation, enter a date override.

    For the calculation of seniority, you have the option of entering a calculation process instead of using the standard benefits calculation.

Further notes

Business Attributes
ASAP Roadmap ID 203   Establish Master Data 
Mandatory / Optional 1   Mandatory activity 
Critical / Non-Critical 1   Critical 
Country-Dependency I   Valid for countries specified 
Assigned Application Components
Documentation Object Class Documentation Object Name Current line number Application Component Application Component Name
SIMG OHBEN1182 0 HLA0100333 Other 
Maintenance Objects
Maintenance object type C   Customizing Object 
Assigned objects
Customizing Object Object Type Transaction Code Sub-object Do not Summarize Skip Subset Dialog Box Description for multiple selections
V_5UBH_E V - View HRBEN0041  
History
Last changed by/on SAP  20000117 
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