Costs to Complete for Externally Processed Activities (SAP Library

Costs to Complete for Externally Processed Activities

Prerequisites

The activity is assigned to a WBS element.

The activity must be flagged as "costing relevant", using the control key.

Features

The updated residual costs (or "costs to complete") are calculated on the basis of planned costs in the externally processed activity.

The system determines the costs to complete as follows:

There is no purchase requisition or purchase order.

The planned start date for the activity is later than the key date.

The system recalculates the planned costs in the activity and records them as costs to complete, in line with the dates in the activity or from the invoicing plan in the forecast version. No actual or commitment costs have been recorded in the project up to now. The estimated costs at completion are the same as the costs to complete.

The planned start date is earlier than the key date.

The system recalculates the planned costs in the activity as of the key date and records them as costs to complete in the period of the key date.

If the activity has an invoicing plan, cost are distributed as follows:

As of the key date, for dates earlier than the key date
In line with the dates from the invoicing plan, for dates after the key date

A purchase requisition or purchase order has been created for the activity.

The system sets costs to complete at zero. The system calculates the estimated costs at completion for the activity by adding the actual and commitment values.

Note

If there is a purchase requisition or purchase order for the activity, the system pays no regard to the dates from the invoicing plan when calculation the costs to complete.