Cost Collector for KANBAN (SAP Library)

Cost Collector for KANBAN

The production cost collector serves to collect the actual costs incurred per period and to bill this to the produced material’s balance sheet account . The differences calculated can be regularly billed to the profitability segment for the material produced.

With the cost collector, cost object controlling is carried out for the replenishment strategies, "in-house production with run schedule quantities" and "manual KANBAN": The following data can be posted to the cost collector:

consumption

receipts

actual quantity variances

actual activities

For more information on cost object controlling, please refer to the SAP document, CO Controlling.

Replenishment Strategies with Cost Collector

If you use replenishment strategies with a cost collector, proceed as follows:

In the material master record (planning data screen 3), you must enter a repetitive manufacturing profile.

In the repetitive manufacturing profile, you have two options:

separate cost collector for material
separate cost collector for material and production version

The cost collector must be created in the KANBAN menu.

Here, you have two options:

If you selected the repetitive manufacturing profile "Separate cost collector for material", you must create a cost collector without a production version.
If you selected the repetitive manufacturing profile "separate cost collector for material and production version", you must create a cost collector with a production version.

For more information on creating cost collectors, see Creating the Cost Collector.

If you work with the repetitive manufacturing profile "Separate cost collector for material and production version", you must have entered the production version in the replenishment strategy in the control cycle. The system requires this entry

to determine the production version when creating the planned order
to determine the cost collector and, if necessary, the components when backflushing.

Selecting the Cost Collector when Posting KANBAN Documents

If you selected the repetitive manufacturing profile, "Cost collector for material", you require a cost collector without a production version. If such a cost collector has not been created, the system will set the status ERROR when trying to set the status FULL. This means that the posting will not be carried out.

If you have selected the repetitive manufacturing profile "Cost collector for material and production version", the production version must be specified in the control cycle and you require a cost collector with a production version. If the production version has not been recorded and/or no cost collector with production version exists, the system will set the status ERROR when trying to set the status FULL. This means that the posting will not be carried out.

Note

If you change the repetitive manufacturing profile for already existing replenishment elements (for example, you select "Cost collector for material and production version" instead of "Cost collector for material"), the system issues an error message when you try to set the kanban status to FULL as the replenishments do not yet have a production version. Make sure that when you change the repetitive manufacturing profile or cost collector you also maintain all the necessary steps the system requires to find the cost collector.