Maintenance Plan Costing (SAP Library - Customer Service (CS))

Maintenance Plan Costing

Use

You can determine the expected costs for maintenance plans for a period using maintenance plan costing (see also Example of Maintenance Plan Costing).

Prerequisites

The following prerequisites must be fulfilled:

The maintenance plans are scheduled.

In Customizing for the maintenance plan category, the maintenance order or service order is configured as the maintenance call object.

The maintenance plan does not have the status Inactive or Deletion flag.

The following data is specified in the task list for the operations:

The working time and/or materials with prices
A work center to which an activity type is assigned

Tariffs are assigned to the activity type.

Features

The system determines the costs to be expected for the specified period as follows:

It calculates on the basis of existing calls in the maintenance plans.
It then simulates maintenance calls and the corresponding maintenance or service orders. The expected costs are also determined from this.

The costs determined are planned costs and not actual costs, and are determined from the following sources:

The maintenance packages and cycles

These contain the time or performance condition when maintenance must be performed.

The assigned task list

This contains the activities to be performed together with the corresponding quantities (for example, internal and external services, required materials).

The system does not determine any overhead costs. You cannot perform a costing for multiple counter plans.

When costing for strategy plans, note the following:

The system notes calls that are already available.
These calls are determined according to when packages fall due. If a package is no longer valid, (for example, because the task list was exchanged or the package in the task list was deleted) then costing cannot be performed. The system must once again determine the costs in the operations (these costs arose when the original package was due). This assignment is no longer possible when a task list has been exchanged or an original package has been deleted.

The system uses the currently valid tariffs for the cost tariffs on which the costing is based. These tariffs are calculated from the activity type and cost center. If you have changed tariffs for the future, these will not be considered by the system which also uses the current tariffs here.

You will find additional information on

Maintenance plan costing under Costing a Maintenance Plan

Changing the maintenance plan costing display in the documentation CO - Product Cost Planning.