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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:
You must already have defined your
own
costing types or 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.