Business Units

the first step in allocating cost is creating business units to allocate the costs to business units in amberflo represent the entities within your organization to which you attribute and report it costs these entities can be any logical group relevant to your financial governance, such as departments (e g , engineering, marketing) divisions (e g , north america, emea) lines of business (e g , consumer products, enterprise solutions) individual teams (e g , devops team, data analytics team) strategic projects or initiatives (e g , cloud migration project, ai initiative) defining clear business units enables you to track, allocate, and report on costs transparently and accurately this level of granularity empowers teams with financial accountability and fosters more informed, data driven decision making creating a business unit start by navigating to the business unit page by finding it on the left navigation list in the manage section or by using https //ui amberflo io/it spend/departments/list?sort=name\&limit=10\&isascending=true\&page=1 if you had previously created business units you will see them listed here let's start by creating a business unit just above the table on the right hand side is the + create business unit button click that and you will be taken to the business unit creation page each business unit in amberflo requires two fundamental attributes name a clear, descriptive name to identify the business unit (e g , “marketing” or “kubernetes platform team”) business unit id a unique identifier that amberflo uses internally to track and associate cost and usage data these attributes alone are sufficient to enable cost attribution and generate chargeback or showback reports additionally you can the following optional fields business unit head the primary point of contact for the business unit email contact email for the business unit head description a more detailed explanation of the business unit this is useful in cases where the name alone may not clearly identify the unit or its function once you’ve filled in the required fields, click save you will be redirected to the business units page, where your newly created business unit will appear in the list clicking on a business unit opens its detail page, where you can view the information you entered along with the invoice view , which shows an itemized breakdown of all costs allocated to that business unit by service this view forms the basis for chargeback and showback reporting this transparency drives accountability and enables business units to manage their consumption more effectively, helping align it spending with strategic priorities