More Reports: Line Items
Use
Line item reports provide a detailed analysis of objects and their data. Line items are based on the lines of a document created by a posting in the R/3 System. The reports are available in the following areas:
Line item reports enable you to make a detailed analysis of the values posted. You can access the original documents (such as the FI or MM document) from the individual lines in the line item report. (Environment
® Source document / Accounting document)Technical information is also available.
Line item reports are of limited importance in Cost Object Controlling, because the posting amounts from production confirmations are generally high, and analysis of the line items is only worthwhile in exceptional circumstances.
You can limit the line items to be displayed through the cost element or cost element group and via the period.
Line item reports are available for the following account assignment objects:
Manufacturing orders (production orders and process orders):
Product cost collectors
Cost Object ID (Cost Object Nodes in Cost Object Hierarchies and General Cost Objects)
Sales document item: normally a sales order item:
The line item reports are supplied with a predefined layout. You can also create your own custom layouts so that you can see other fields of the CO line item in the line item report. You can usually display all the fields of the Controlling document in the line item report. These fields were grouped for clarity into:
Prerequisites
Manufacturing orders (production orders and process orders):
The line items for the WIP calculation are only created when a corresponding setting has been made in Customizing.
You make this setting in Customizing of Product Cost by Order under Period-End Closing ®
The line items for the variance calculation are only created when a corresponding setting has been made in Customizing.
You make this setting in Customizing of Product Cost by Order under Period-End Closing ® Variance Calculation ® Define Variance Key.
Product cost collectors
The line items for the variance calculation are only created when a corresponding setting has been made in Customizing.
You make this setting in Customizing of Product Cost by Period under Period-End Closing ® Variance Calculation ® Variance Calculation for Product Cost Collectors ®
Cost Object ID (Cost Object Nodes in Cost Object Hierarchies and General Cost Objects)
The line items for the variance calculation are only created when a corresponding setting has been made in Customizing.
You make this setting in Customizing of Product Cost by Period under Period-End Closing ® Variance Calculation ® Variance Calculation for Cost Object Hierarchies ®
Sales document item: normally a sales order item
The line items for the results analysis are only created when a corresponding setting has been made in Customizing.
You make this setting in Customizing of Product Cost by Sales Order under Period-End Closing ® Results Analysis ® Define Results Analysis Versions. Go into Extended Control.
Integration
Only actual line items are always updated in the standard system. Line items in WIP calculation, results analysis and variance calculation, and for commitments must be explicitly allowed in Customizing for the application.
If you want to write the commitment values to the sales order items that carry costs and revenues, you must set the with commitments management indicator in the fiscal-year-dependent control parameters of the controlling area.
Line items for results analysis data of the WIP calculation and results analysis are only saved if you have set the appropriate indicator in Customizing for the results analysis version.
Line items for variances are updated if you switch on the update of line items in the variance key.
Check the following settings in Customizing:
Notes on Performance
In most cases, it is not necessary to update the line items for WIP calculation, results analysis, or variance calculation in your live system. For this reason, it is best to make sure that the relevant indicator in Customizing is not set. If you decide not to update the line items, the runtime in WIP calculation, results analysis, and variance calculation is significantly improved. Of course, in these cases, it is not possible to display a corresponding line item report.
See also:
A detailed description of line item reports can be found in the documentation Overhead Cost Controlling.
See the following sections for information on commitments:
CommitmentsSee the following sections for information on actual costs:
Actual Costs in Cost Object ControllingSee the following sections for basic information on WIP calculation and results analysis:
Work in Process in Product Cost by Period
Work in Process in Product Cost by Order
Results AnalysisSee the following section for basic information on variance calculation:
Variance CalculationSee the following for general information on performance improvement:
Performance in Product Cost Controlling