Costing bill of services

Costing variant

If you create a cost estimate in an operative BOS, the system requires you to assign a costing variant . Using this costing variant, different additions, deductions and assessments are available on costing item level.

The costing variant PC0X is delivered in the SAP Discrete Industries (DI) system.

You make the appropriate settings in Customizing for Sales and Distribution under  Bill of Services Cost Determination for Bills of Services Define Costing Variants.

Assignment of a Costing Variant to an Addition/Deduction Procedure

The costing variant makes different additions, deductions, and assessments that are defined in the addition/deduction procedure available on costing item level.

You make the appropriate assignment in Customizing for Sales and Distribution under  Bill of Services Cost Determination for Bills of Services Easy Cost Planning Assign Costing Variant to Addition/Deduction Procedure.

Assignment of a Costing Variant to a Sales Area

You can configure your own costing variant and then assign it to a sales area. During overhead costing or easy cost planning, the system will propose the default costing variant. You can change the default.

You make the appropriate assignment in Customizing for Sales and Distribution under  Bill of Services Cost Determination for Bills of Services Easy Cost Planning Assign Costing Variant to Sales Area .

Addition/Deduction Procedures and Additions/Deductions

You can group several additions or deductions together into either an addition or deduction procedure.

You use additions and deductions to either add or deduct from costs or quantities on the costing item level, or to distribute overhead cost assessments. A calculation rule determines, with regard to the allocation bases, how the system calculates the following:

You define addition and deduction procedures in Customizing for Sales and Distribution under  Bill of Services Cost Determination for Bills of Services Easy Cost Planning Define Addition/Deduction Procedures.

You define the additions and deductions in Customizing for Sales and Distribution under  Bill of Services Cost Determination for Bills of Services Easy Cost Planning Define Additions and Deductions.

Cost Transfer to the BOS

The system copies the cost estimates to the condition types of the pricing procedure for the service line.

Data is copied automatically based on the assignment of the cost component structure to the pricing procedure. Condition types are grouped together into cost components in the cost component structure. The cost component is split on the basis of the cost components.

You create the cost component structure and the appropriate cost components in Customizing for Controlling under  Product Cost Controlling Product Cost Planning Basic Settings for Material Costing Define Cost Component Structure .

You make the assignment in Customizing for Sales and Distribution under  Bill of Services Cost Determination for Bills of Services Assign Cost Component Structure to Pricing Procedure.

Pricing procedure VS000 is delivered as the standard pricing procedure for service conditions in SD in the SAP Discrete Industries (DI) system. For more information see Settings for Price Determination .