A material can consist of components that come from a different plant to that of the finished product. This plant may even be assigned to a different company code.

In such cases, you have the option to carry out cross-company costing across company codes within a controlling area. However, cross-controlling area costing is not supported.

You activate costing across company codes in Customizing for Product Cost Planning.

Costing across company codes enables you to do the following:

• Access cost component splits for costs of goods manufactured in different company codes in a controlling area and transfer them.
• Include manually entered cost components (such as those for transportation costs) with planned stock transfers
• Release the costing results either for all company codes in the controlling area, or only for the company code in which you carry out the costing run