Activate Cross-Company Costing (SAP Library

Activate Cross-Company Costing

Here you specify that costing across company codes is allowed. Costing across company codes means that:

Material costing can access information in more than one company code

Additive costs for costs such as transportation charges can be taken into account with planned stock transfers

The costing results can be released for all company codes in the controlling area

Note

This step is only for costing types that are defined for the legal valuation view. The settings do not affect the group view or the profit center view. That is, this step is relevant if you are not defining group costing, but want to cost across companies.

The following special procurement types are significant for costing across company codes:

Transfer from another plant

Withdrawal in another plant

Production in another plant

If you have entered one of these special procurement types in the costing view of the material master record, the system proceeds as follows:

The system either recosts the materials in plants that are assigned to the company code of the plant in which the cost estimate is created, or it transfers an existing cost estimate in accordance with transfer control parameters.

For materials in plants that are assigned to another company code, the Cost across company codes indicator determines whether the materials are recosted or whether the system uses an existing cost estimate in accordance with the valuation strategy.
You can develop an enhancement to enable a price you defined to be used if costing across company codes is not active:
Develop enhancements for material costing

If you did not enter a special procurement type in the costing view, the system uses the special procurement type in the MRP view.

Costing across company codes requires that the same cost component structure be used in all company codes in a given controlling area. Otherwise, the total value of the cost estimate will be used instead of the individual cost components.

Releasing the costing results in more than one company code requires that the same valuation variant was allowed for marking the cost estimate. If this is not the case, you can only release the costing results in the company code of the costing run.

Requirements

You must already have checked the controlling areas:

Create controlling area

Maintain controlling area

You must already have defined your own

costing types or valuation variants:

Define costing types

Define valuation variants

Activities

To activate costing across company codes for a controlling area, proceed as follows:

1. Choose New entries.

2. Enter a controlling area.

3. Enter a costing type and a valuation variant (if applicable).

Note the following:

If you enter a costing type and a valuation variant, cross-company costing will only be updated for cost estimates with a corresponding costing variant (combination of costing type and valuation variant).

If you enter a costing type but no valuation variant, cross-company costing will be executed for all cost estimates with that costing type.

If you enter neither a costing type nor a valuation variant, cross-company costing will be executed for all cost estimates in the specified controlling area.

A specific entry (such as controlling area 0001, costing type 01, and valuation variant 006) takes precedence over a generic entry (such as controlling area 0001, costing type 01, and no valuation variant).

4. Turn on the indicator Cross-company costing.

5. Save the table.

Further Notes

For more information, see CO - Product Cost Planning in the R/3 library.