Set Up Departments
A department is used to group similar work centers. It can have many work centers, but a work center can only report to one department.
Set up departments so that you can review capacity load and costing in a meaningful way. For example, departments can group work centers performing common functions. In a job shop, there can be one department for lathes and another for welding.
Department Maintenance
Default GL accounts are set in the Domain/Account Control (36.9.24). They can be changed here, to allow you to see GL transactions by department.
The system creates GL transactions using the accounts associated with the department code. By changing the department code, different accounts can be used for the GL transactions created by these functions.
See Training Guide: Introduction to Product Costing for more details on Account Structures and Department accounts.
