Creating Costing Items 

Use

You can edit costing items in the list screen of the unit cost estimate or in the detail screen for the costing item. The list screen gives you an overview of all the costing items. The detail screen gives you an overview of a particular costing item.

Alternatively, or as an extension of the classic (single-level) unit costing which uses a list screen and detail screen, you can use the functions of multilevel unit costing to create costing items.

Features

In unit costing, you enter the costing items manually. In addition, each costing item must be assigned to an item category.

The item category determines which data you have to enter and which data is read by the system:

Item category

Your entry

Object(s) found by system

B (base planning object)

Name of the base planning object, quantity

Price, unit of measure, cost element, text, item value

E (internal activity)

Cost center, activity type, quantity

Price, unit of measure, cost element, text, item value

F (external activity)

Purchasing info record, plant, purchasing organization, quantity, cost element

Price, unit of measure, text, item value

G (overhead)

-

Overhead, cost element

I (raw material costing) ® cost estimate without quantity structure only

-

Raw material costs (see also raw material costing)

L (subcontracting)

Purchasing info record, plant, purchasing organization, quantity, cost element

Price, unit of measure, text, item value

M (material)

Material number, plant, quantity

Price, unit of measure, cost element, text, item value

N (service)

Service, quantity

Price, unit of measure, cost element, text, item value

O (operation)

Formula, cost element

Result of formula

S (total)

-

Total of item values above this item or above the item values that you specify in a formula

P (manual process costs)

Quantity, process

Process costs, activity price

T (text)

Description

-

V (variable item)

Quantity, price, cost element

Item value

X (process costs determined)

-

Process costs, quantity, unit of measure, cost element, text

If you do not enter an item category, the system proposes V (variable).

You can also enter the prices of individual costing items manually. If you do so, the item is indicated accordingly, and the field Price entered manually is set for the item.

The system finds cost elements for the individual items as follows:

Item category

Used by system to find cost element

B (base planning object)

The master data of the base planning object

E (internal activity)

Activity type master record

F (external activity)

Your manual entry

L (subcontracting)

Your manual entry

G (overhead)

Costing sheet

P (manual process costs)

Your manual entry

X (process costs determined)

Process template

M (material)

Automatic account determination

N (service)

Service master

V (variable item)

Your manual entry

In unit costing, you can check whether the system found a cost element for each costing item by choosing Functions ® Check cost elem.

For base object cost estimates, you can specify in the costing variant in Customizing whether cost elements can or must be entered, or whether cost elements cannot be specified. For further information, see Preparing for Base Object Costing and the Implementation Guide (IMG) for Reference and Simulation Costing.