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Create Costing Variant

The costing variant contains the control parameters for costing.

The costing variant forms the link between the application and Customizing, since all cost estimates are carried out and saved with reference to a costing variant.

You use the costing variant to specify how costing is to be carried out. You can, for example, control how the quantity structure and its values are formed.

A costing variant contains:

Note

Although it is technically possible to have two costing variants with the same costing type and valuation variant, this should be avoided to prevent data from being overwritten.

The reason for this is that the key structure for the costing results in the database uses the costing type and the valuation variant, and not the costing variant.

Default settings

The standard system contains a number of predefined costing variants.

SAP recommendation

You should assign a different valuation variant to each costing variant with which you intend to save cost estimates.

This one-to-one assignment enables you to change the valuation strategies later as desired.

Actions

1. Enter an alphanumeric key and a description.
2. Assign a costing type and a valuation variant to the costing variant in the detail screen.
If you wish to use your own parameters, work through the menu options Define costing types and Define valuation variants
3. If the costing variant is used for base object costing, specify whether the costing items have to be assigned to cost elements. For all other reference objects in unit costing, the costs must be summarized by cost element.
4. If the costing variant is used for product costing, specify: