Overhead costs are costs which can only be assigned to an order indirectly, such as electricity costs or general storage costs.

Overhead costs are assigned to the cost collector by applying overhead. They are written to the cost collector under the cost elements defined in the costing sheet.

In Customizing for Repetitive Manufacturing, you enter an order type in the repetitive manufacturing profile. The costing variant defined in the order type refers to a valuation variant which, in turn, refers to a costing sheet.

The costing sheet specifies:

• which direct costs to apply overhead to (material costs, production costs)

• under which conditions overhead is calculated

• how high, depending on these conditions, the overhead percentage is

• which cost center or order is credited under which cost element during actual postings