This process is applicable when you have selected the Standard Costing method for the applicable labor costing rule associated to the employee, organization or operating unit. The process computes the labor costs for timecard hours and determines the default GL account to which to post the cost. The process also identifies if a transaction is cross-charged and determines the processing it may need.
This process is a required prerequisite for the generation of revenue and invoices for timecard items. For more information, see: Distributing Labor Costs.
Note: If you define your own detailed accounting rules in Oracle Subledger Accounting, then Oracle Subledger Accounting overwrites default accounts, or individual segments of accounts, that Oracle Projects derives using AutoAccounting.
To submit the process for a range of projects, submit the PRC: Distribute Labor Costs for a Range of Projects from the Submit Request window.
To submit the process for one project, submit the process PRC: Distribute Labor Costs from the Submit Request window. See: Submitting Requests.
You can submit the process as part of a streamline process. For information about streamline processes, see: Submitting Streamline Processes.
To limit the process to a particular expenditure batch, project number, employee, or week ending date, enter one or more parameters. See: Entering a Project Number Range Parameter.
Use the rescheduling parameters to configure a process to run automatically, according to a defined schedule. You can specify rescheduling parameters when you submit the process from the Submit Request window.
The following reports show the results of this process:
The Labor Cost Report (Straight-time). Lists the costs for all of the straight time labor hours successfully processed by the Distribute Labor Costs process. For each labor item, this report lists the employee who reported the labor hours, the expenditure and expenditure item dates, the project and task to which these hours were charged, and the number of hours charged.
The Overtime Labor Calculations Report. Lists all the employees for which the Overtime Calculation extension calculated new overtime items. This report is displayed only if you use the Overtime Calculation extension to automatically calculate overtime. If you use manual overtime entry, this report is not printed.
The Labor Cost Exception Report (Straight-time). Lists all straight-time labor expenditure items that could not be processed by the Distribute Labor Costs process. This report lists the rejection reason for each of the expenditure items that failed cost distribution.
This report displays each employee for which new overtime items were created, the week in which the overtime was created, the employee's labor costing rule used to calculate overtime for the employee, and the number of overtime hours for the different types of overtime.
The Labor Cost Report (Overtime). Lists the same information as the Labor Cost Report (Straight-time). The difference is that this report displays only overtime items.
Note: You can also review rejection reasons for straight-time and overtime items from the Expenditure Items window by using the Show Field option in the Folder menu to display Cost Distr. Rejection. See: Viewing Expenditure Items.
The Labor Cost Exception Report (Overtime). Lists the same information as the Labor Cost Exception Report (Straight-time). The difference is that this report only shows overtime expenditure items that could not be processed normally by the Distribute Labor Costs process. This report lists the rejection reason for each of the expenditure items that fails cost distribution.