Departments and Cost Centers

The Job Manager system utilizes the concept of departments and cost centers in order to help organize the way in which your company is structured. Departments help determine how your company is organized by dividing it into more specific or distinctive areas. These areas are then subdivided into cost centers from which tasks originate. For example, a commercial printing company may have an Electronic Prepress department with Typesetting, Scanning, Output, etc. cost centers, and so on. The important thing to remember when determining what your departments and cost centers are is that there is no definite rule as to what constitutes a department as opposed to a cost center. One guideline to consider is the overall size or importance of a particular function or area of your company and whether it can be broken down into subdivisions.