Easy Cost Planning for Appropriation Requests 

Use

Using this function, you can perform costing for your appropriation requests and thereby determine your overall and annual plan values. The plan values you enter are either estimated, or are based on calculations that are made outside of the SAP System. If these methods of determining planned costs are not detailed enough for you, then you can use the functions of Easy Cost Planning for detailed cost planning directly on the appropriation request.

Prerequisites

·        You have to enter a costing variant in the planning profile for cost planning of appropriation requests. This planning profile has to be entered in the appropriation request type (in the Cost and revenue planning group box).

·        You can create a cost estimate for any appropriation request variant, which does not yet have a cost estimate and for which there are no plan values outside of the planning interval. Set up the planning interval in the planning profile for cost planning so that planning in the past is also possible.

·        The appropriation request type has to allow either only projects or only orders as measures.

·        If you want to copy the cost estimate to the measure later, then you have to set the Copy cost estimate indicator in the appropriation request type.

You edit planning profiles in Customizing for Investment Management. Choose Appropriation Requests ® Planning ® Cost Planning ® Maintain Planning Profile for Cost Planning.

For appropriation request types, choose Master Data ® Control Data ® Maintain Appropriation Request Types.

If these preconditions for costing are not fulfilled, then you cannot jump from the appropriation request to Easy Cost Planning. The system suppresses the necessary pushbutton in that case.

Costing for appropriation requests is always in the controlling area currency.

Features

You can enter only one cost estimate for each appropriation request variant.

The overall value that results from the cost estimate can be divided into investment costs and overhead costs on the basis of the investment percentage rate. The system multiplies the combined costs from the cost estimate by the investment percentage. The result is the amount of investment costs.

Once you have entered a cost estimate for a variant, you can no longer change the overall plan values manually. Any changes have to be made in the cost estimate. Only by deleting the cost estimate can you make investment and overhead costs available again for manual processing.

Revenue planning is separate from the cost estimate. Therefore you can still process revenue amounts even if you created a cost estimate.

See also:

For general information on the costing method, see Easy Cost Planning.

For information on copying the cost estimate to a measure, see Replacement by a Measure for Implementation.

Activities

Perform Costing