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Cost Categories Across Systems

This note consolidates how cost categories and main cost categories are represented across EDB applications.

Scope:

  • Elements
  • Portal
  • GMS1
  • GMS2

Goal:

  • Define what each concept represents in business terms.
  • Capture how each system stores, displays, or uses it.
  • Map the equivalent or related fields across systems.
  • Call out any mismatches, transformations, or ambiguities.

Working Definitions

Cost Category

Pending consolidation from system notes.

Main Cost Category

Pending consolidation from system notes.

Cross-System Summary

Pending consolidation.

System-by-System Notes

Elements

What it represents

Pending input.

How it is used

Pending input.

Fields / labels / data shape

Pending input.

Notes

Pending input.

Portal

What it represents

Pending input.

How it is used

Pending input.

Fields / labels / data shape

Pending input.

Notes

Pending input.

GMS1

What it represents

Pending input.

How it is used

Pending input.

Fields / labels / data shape

Pending input.

Notes

Pending input.

GMS2

What it represents

Pending input.

How it is used

Pending input.

Fields / labels / data shape

Pending input.

Notes

Pending input.

Interrelation / Mapping

Business conceptElementsPortalGMS1GMS2Notes
Cost CategoryPendingPendingPendingPendingPending
Main Cost CategoryPendingPendingPendingPendingPending

Behaviour and Usage Patterns

Validation / Rules

Pending consolidation.

Reporting / Display

Pending consolidation.

Integration / Data Handoff

Pending consolidation.

Open Questions

  • Is Main Cost Category a parent grouping of Cost Category in every system, or only in some systems?
  • Do all four systems use the same canonical values, or do some systems transform or remap them?
  • Which system is the source of truth for these values?

Raw Inputs

Use this section to preserve exact facts before refinement.

Elements raw input

Pending input.

Portal raw input

Pending input.

GMS1 raw input

Pending input.

GMS2 raw input

Pending input.