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Create disciplines for effort-based cost elements

A Discipline contains sets of users with a common behavior. IPP&E uses disciplines to define effort-based or labor-based cost categories such as Manager, Senior Manager, Engineer, and QA as follows:

Procedure

  1. In the Teamcenter rich client, open the Organization application and select Disciplines.

  2. Enter the following values in the right-hand panel:

    • Name — The name of the labor cost element.
    • Default rate — The rate for that discipline. This can be set to zero if it is not applicable for your business processes.
    • Default Currency — The currency for the user locale.

Source: https://docs.sw.siemens.com/documentation/external/PL20251212545240207/en-US/tc_help/ippe/ftm1737238868213/sbh1737238872519/wff1737238873060/xid1927830.html · retrieved 2026-07-10