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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

  1. You create a base planning object with master data and costing items.

  2. 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 .

  3. The system valuates the costing items entered and calculates the overhead (including process costs).

  4. For more information, see Valuation of Costing Items and Overhead Costs in Base Object Costing .

  5. 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:

  1. 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: