Reference and Simulation Costing: Process Flow
Purpose
You use base planning objects for the following purposes:
- To plan new products, such as materials and services, and create costing information where no master data (material master, BOM, routing) exists
- To use existing cost estimates as a reference for the planning of new products
- To simulate changes to existing products and cost estimates
For more information, see
Costing Sequence and
Base Planning Objects.
Prerequisites
Editing costing items is always based on a costing variant. For more information, see
Preparing for Base Object Costing.
Process Flow
You create a base planning object with master data and costing items.
For this, you can use either the classic, single-level
unit costing or
multilevel unit costing.For more information, see
Creating Base Planning Objects and
Creating Costing Items.The system valuates the costing items entered and calculates the overhead (including process costs).
For more information, see
Valuation of Costing Items and
Overhead Costs in Base Object Costing.You save the base planning object and use the reports in the Product Cost Controlling Information System to analyze the costing results.
For further information, see the following:
Reports in Product Cost Planning
Overview of Base Planning Objects
Where-Used List of Base Planning Objects
- You can use an existing base planning object for the following purposes:
- As a reference for a new base planning object
- As a "building block" in other unit cost estimates, such as material cost estimates without quantity structure, additive cost estimates and base planning objects.
For further information, see the following: