Cross-Plant Transfer (SAP Library - Product Cost Planning (CO-PC-PCP))

Cross-Plant Transfer

Use

You use the strategy sequence for cross-plant transfer to specify how the system is to proceed with special procurement.

You enter the special procurement type in the costing view of the material master record. If you do not enter a special procurement type in this view, the system uses the special procurement type from the MRP view.

Features

The following special procurement types are taken into account for the transfer to a material cost estimate:

Stock transfer from another plant
Production in another plant

The special procurement type specifies the plant in which the system is to look for costing data. The strategy sequence is the sequence in which the system is to search for costing data.

You can further restrict the search criteria by specifying the following in Customizing for Product Cost Planning:

That the system only searches in the current fiscal year
That the system only searches in a specific number of periods
That the system ignores materials that have the secondary requirements indicator Only individual requirements in the MRP view of the material master record (that is, the system transfers cost estimates only to collective requirements materials).

Note

The results of standard cost estimate in the second plant can only be transferred to the cost estimate in the first plant if they have the same cost component structure as the results of the standard cost estimate in the first plant.

For this reason, you must assign the costing variants for the standard cost estimate to a cost component structure at the company code level in Customizing for Product Cost Planning. When you cost across company codes, the cost component structures in the controlling area must be the same.

If the system cannot find a cost estimate that meets the criteria, the material is costed again on the basis of the BOM and routing in the other plant. However, the system will only cost the material in the other plant if the plant is in a different company code and cross-company costing has been activated.