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Cost Centers

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  • Linked from: Demands (via ORIGINATES_FROM)

Cost centers are the financial view of the organization: where do budgets go, where do costs arise?

Purpose

Section titled “Purpose”

A cost center is an accounting bucket for expenses — e.g. “IT Infrastructure” or “Digitalisation Project”. Persons, roles, projects and value streams are linked to cost centers via BELONGS_TO, so that expense can be traced back financially.

Default view

Section titled “Default view”

Cost centers are displayed as a card list with type, budget and description. Filter by type and free-text search.

List view

Important relationships

Section titled “Important relationships”
  • BELONGS_TO (Person/Role/Project/Value stream → Cost Center) — financial assignment
  • OWNS (Person → Cost Center) — cost-center accountability

Details: Relationship Types.

Schema to copy

Section titled “Schema to copy”
{
  "type": "object",
  "properties": {
    "costCenterType": {
      "type": "string",
      "title": "Cost center type",
      "enum": ["Primary cost center", "Secondary cost center", "Project cost center", "Administrative cost center"]
    },
    "budget": { "type": "number", "title": "Budget" },
    "description": { "type": "string", "title": "Description" }
  },
  "required": ["costCenterType"]
}

Extension ideas: costCenterNumber (e.g. SAP number), currency, fiscalYear, parentCostCenter. Details: JSON Schema for Entity Types.

Detail view

Section titled “Detail view”
  • Type badge and budget
  • Description
  • Assigned entities via BELONGS_TO (persons, roles, projects, value streams)
  • Cost-center owner via OWNS

Detail view

Section titled “Related”