Hi Fellow Modeling community,

I am keen to understand approaches for P*Q (Price * volume) standard cost chargeback for bundled services like Workplace services, which typically have Distributed computing cost drivers.  In such a scenario,

a) We could assume a Workplace Service (Say, a Laptop) chargeback price inclusive of the loaded Distributed computing cost and also make sure that we drop the Distributed computing consumption pertaining to Workplace services as a part of Distributed computing chargeback to ensure we don't pad up the same costs again

or

b) We could use a workplace service chargeback price without considering any other Enterprise infrastructure chargeback cost and also consider the Distributed computing consumption to workplace services as a part of it's chargeback.  In this case, we may have a choice of how the Bill of IT would read the portion of Distributed computing costs allocating to workplace services - Either as a part of loaded cost in the Workplace services or separately as a Distributed computing cost

While i believe a part of the response would depend on how the services itself is managed and the use case for showing the cost as loaded or as a separate line item.  Still it would be useful to know the community views and practices on the topic

Appreciate your time for reading and thank you.

Ganesh Sankaran