Shared Service Costing
Shared Services Costing Solution
Value Driver:
Helps in identifying correct adoption of costing method which facilitates a transparent cost chargeback to Business Units (recipient of shared services) with granular insight of the cost constituents.
Introduction:
In today’s highly cost conscious environment, enterprise wide cost savings can be achieved by consolidating common work and infrastructure by using Shared Services units. But Business units often complain that Shared Services end up costing more than they targeted to save and also have the below questions:-
• “What are my Shared services costs made up off?”
• “Shared services costs are too high and affecting my product profitability”
Shared services are unable to answer these questions due to lack of cost transparency in their cost models. Typical reasons for lack of cost transparency in shared services cost models are:-
• Using complex costing methodology which makes measurement, chargeback and report to Business units difficult
• Lack of standardization of allocation logic
• Inability to completely automate the cross charging process
Shared Service models –
Our Shared services models enable cost transparency for multi-functional and reciprocal services rendered by Shared Services units. Cost transparency in context of Shared Services is to show the Business
• Services it consumes
• Cost of delivering these services
• Breaking the cost down to activities and resources involved in producing these services
• Allocation logic for cross charging
• On demand “what - if?”scenarios with respect to demonstrate how costs change due to change in demand for services ,resource drivers and allocation logic
Various automated cross charging models which reflect reciprocal services among Shared Services and eventually charge out to the Business are as follows:-
Reciprocal costing model
This costing model makes one time assignment of cost between Shared Services and eventually charges
Value Driver:
Helps in identifying correct adoption of costing method which facilitates a transparent cost chargeback to Business Units (recipient of shared services) with granular insight of the cost constituents.
Introduction:
In today’s highly cost conscious environment, enterprise wide cost savings can be achieved by consolidating common work and infrastructure by using Shared Services units. But Business units often complain that Shared Services end up costing more than they targeted to save and also have the below questions:-
• “What are my Shared services costs made up off?”
• “Shared services costs are too high and affecting my product profitability”
Shared services are unable to answer these questions due to lack of cost transparency in their cost models. Typical reasons for lack of cost transparency in shared services cost models are:-
• Using complex costing methodology which makes measurement, chargeback and report to Business units difficult
• Lack of standardization of allocation logic
• Inability to completely automate the cross charging process
Shared Service models –
Our Shared services models enable cost transparency for multi-functional and reciprocal services rendered by Shared Services units. Cost transparency in context of Shared Services is to show the Business
• Services it consumes
• Cost of delivering these services
• Breaking the cost down to activities and resources involved in producing these services
• Allocation logic for cross charging
• On demand “what - if?”scenarios with respect to demonstrate how costs change due to change in demand for services ,resource drivers and allocation logic
Various automated cross charging models which reflect reciprocal services among Shared Services and eventually charge out to the Business are as follows:-
Reciprocal costing model
This costing model makes one time assignment of cost between Shared Services and eventually charges