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You use cost centers to identify any part of an Enterprise to which you expense items. Buyers can then assign the cost of a purchased item to a cost center, or distribute the cost between several cost centers. After you add a new Cost Center in Enterprise Buyer 2.0 Desktop Edition, you can add the Cost Center to an existing Buying Organization.

Creating New Cost Centers

1. In the tree menu, select Setup | Cost Centers.
   
   The system displays the Cost Center page.
   
2. Click [New Cost Center].
   
   The system displays the New Cost Center page.
   
3. Click in the Cost Center ID text box (so that an |-beam cursor is displayed), and type an integer that uniquely identifies a Cost Center in Enterprise Buyer 2.0 Desktop Edition. 
   
   If you type anything other than an integer, the displays an error message.
   
4. Click in the ERP Cost Center ID text box (so that an |-beam cursor is displayed), and type the value that identifies this same Cost Center to your Enterprise resources planning (back office) software.
   
   
5. Click in the Cost Center Name text box (so that an |-beam cursor is displayed), and type the name you want Enterprise Buyer 2.0 Desktop Edition to use to identify this Cost Center to users. 

Do not try to assign a Home organization until you have  created your Buying Organizations. Only after you have done this will the Home Organization drop-down menu be populated with a list of available organizations.  If necessary, you can return later to assign a Home Organization.

6. Click in the Home Organization drop-down menu, and select a Home Organization to be assigned to this Cost Center.
   
   
7. Click: 
   • [Save] to save the description, or 
   • [Cancel] to leave the New Address page without making any changes.

Modifying Existing Cost Centers

1. In the tree menu, select Setup | Cost Centers.
   
   The system displays the Cost Center page.
   

2. Click in the Contact Center Name text box, and type:
   

   • all or part of a Cost Center name, or
   • A wildcard character (*) to see all Cost Centers in the database
     

3. Click [Search]  
   
   The browser displays all Cost Centers matching your query and their information.
   

4. If there are too many Cost Centers to be viewed in a single page, use the browser scroll bar, at the right of the window, to move the display up and down.
   
   
5. To view all of the information for a Cost Centers, use the browser scroll bar, at the bottom of the window, to move the display left and right.
   

6. Click:

• Edit to change Cost Center information
  
  The browser displays the Edit Cost Center page. Enter the same Cost Center and address information you entered for a New Cost Center.
  
  
• Delete to remove the Cost Center from the database.

Before removing a Cost Center, you must first remove its associations. If the Cost Center is associated with a Buying Organization, the system cannot remove the Cost Center, and the browser displays an error message. Select a replacement Cost Center for the Buying Organizations use. Only then, can you delete the Cost Center.

7.  Click: 
   • [Save] to save the modified information, or 
   • [Cancel] to leave the Cost Center page without making any changes.

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