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Check Costing
Variants for Product Cost Collectors
The costing variant contains the control
parameters for the cost estimate.
Here you check the costing variants that are
used in the Product Cost by Period component for the following
purposes:
- For the preliminary cost estimate of a product
cost collector
- For simultaneous costing and final costing of
a product cost collector
You carry out the following steps:
- Costing variants for the calculation of
activity quantities
Here you check the
control parameters of the preliminary cost estimate for the product cost
collector (SAP standard costing variant PREM9) and the material cost estimate
with quantity structure (for more information on costing variants for material
costing with quantity structure see the section
Define Costing Variants).
If you are a
repetitive manufacturer and have specified in the repetitive manufacturing
profile that you want activity types allocated automatically at confirmation,
make an additional entry in the repetitive manufacturing profile as to whether
the activity quantities are proposed on the basis of the preliminary costing
of the product cost collector or on the basis of the standard cost estimate
for the material. This means that the costing variants entered here that are
used for the preliminary costing of the product cost collector or for standard
cost estimates can also be used for the actual costing of the default activity
types (also see:
Check control data for the repetitive manufacturing
profile).
- Costing variants for valuation of internal
activities
Here you check the
valuation variant assigned to the costing variant. This valuation variant
determines which activity prices are used for valuation of the actual activity
types and business processes
- That are allocated manually
- That are allocated automatically through a
confirmation in PP
- That are charged to the product cost collector
through template allocation
Requirements
Standard
Settings
The standard system contains a number of
predefined costing variants for the product cost collector.
- The standard cost estimate
for the material uses costing variant "PPC1 / standard cost estimate
(material)".
This costing variant
contains the following settings:
Costing type "01 /
standard cost estimate (material)" specifies among other things that the
results of the standard cost estimate can be written to the material master
record as the standard price. This costing type cannot be
changed.
- The quantity structure determination ID "PC01
/ standard quantity structure control 2"
The quantity
structure determination ID specifies which strategy is used to select BOMs and
routings for the standard cost estimate.
- Costing variant "PREM / preliminary costing
for product cost collector" is used for the preliminary cost estimate
for the product cost collector.
- The version-specific cost
estimate uses costing variant PREM.
This costing variant
contains the following settings:
- Costing type "19 / product cost
collector"
Costing type "19 /
product cost collector" specifies that this cost estimate is suitable for the
preliminary costing of product cost collectors. You can only use the costing
type "19" for the preliminary costing of product cost collectors.
- Valuation variant "001 / planned valuation,
material"
Because the BOM and
routing for the cost estimate are selected through the production process of
the product cost collector, the quantity structure determination ID does not
play a role here.
- Costing variant "PPP3 / product cost
collector" is used for selection of the activity prices to valuate the actual
activity types and business processes
This costing variant
contains the following settings:
- Costing type "07 / production order -
actuals"
Costing type "07 /
production order - actuals" specifies the technical attributes of the cost
estimate. This costing type cannot be changed.
- Valuation variant "007/ production order -
actual"
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 want to save cost estimates.
This one-to-one assignment enables you to
change the valuation strategies later as required.
Actions
Decide whether the existing costing variants
meet your requirements.
To create a new cost estimate for calculation
of the activity quantities, proceed as follows:
Enter an alphanumerical key and a name for the
costing variant. Then proceed as described in the text
Define costing variants for material cost estimates with quantity
structure. The quantity structure control is not relevant for
costing variants that were created for the preliminary costing of product cost
collectors.
To create a new costing variant for valuation
of the internal activities:
1. Specify an
alphanumerical key and a text for the new costing variant.
2. Assign a
costing type and a valuation variant to the new costing variant.
Further
Notes
If you don't want automatic activity type or
business process allocation, you can manually enter a cost allocation for the
product cost collector. To do this, you must define a corresponding screen
variant. See also:
Define screen variants for activity allocations
To establish the costing variant as the default
costing variant, enter the costing variant in the default values for the order
type.