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Check Costing Variants for CO Production Orders

The costing variant contains the control parameters for the cost estimate.

For CO production orders (production orders without quantity structure) you must define a costing variant for the calculation of planned costs. In contrast to PP and PP-PI production orders, you do not need a costing variant to valuate the actual activity types and allocated business processes. In production orders without quantity structure, they are valuated with the planned activity price of the period.

The costing variant for the production order without quantity structure contains all control parameters for the preliminary cost estimate - for the calculation of planned costs.

A costing variant contains the following parameters amoung others:

For production orders without a quantity structure, the standard system contains costing type 09. This costing type specifies that the reference object of costing is a production order without quantity structure. This costing type cannot be changed.
With the costing variant you control what prices are used to valuate materials, external activities and subcontracting and which prices are used to valuate activity types and business processes.

The costing variant is defaulted through the planning profile. In turn, the planning profile is defaulted through the order type.

Standard settings

The standard system contains the predefined costing variant "PC01 / CO production order". This costing variant specifies costing type "09 Unit Costing - CO Production Order" and valuation variant "006 / Production Order - Planned".

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, rather than the costing variant.

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 required.

Actions

1. Decide whether the costing variant provided in the standard system meets your requirements.
2. To create a new costing variant:
a) Enter an alphanumerical key and a name for the costing variant.
b) Assign a costing type and a valuation variant to the costing variant.
If you want to use your own parameters, you must carry out the steps under Define valuation variants.
c) Assign this costing variant to the corresponding plan profile by carrying out the step Define Planning Profiles for CO Production Orders

Further Notes

The planned costs for the production order without quantity structure are calculated through unit costing. You can either enter the necessary data manually or take it from a preceding system. The pricing date is set by default to the current date. The material prices and activity prices for the activity types and business processes are determined at this point.