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Prerequisites

If you use the following:

  • Different processes to manufacture a product

  • Different sources for procuring a material

these different manufacturing processes or supply sources can produce different prices for the same material. You can avail yourself of mixed costing to determine a price for this material. To be able to create the mixed price, there must exist a procurement alternative for each of the production processes or supply sources.

Procedure

Displaying Procurement Alternatives

  1. Choose   Accounting   Controlling   Product Cost Controlling   Product Cost Planning   Material Costing   Master Data for Mixed Cost Estimate   Edit Procurement Alternatives.  

  2. The screen Display Procurement Alternatives appears.

  3. Enter the material and plant for which you would like to display the procurement alternative. If a valuation category is also maintained for the material, you can enter a valuation type . For more information, see Joint Production and Split Valuation

  4. Choose ( ) .

All existing procurement alternatives for this material are hierarchically displayed, sorted by process category .

  1. To expand or collapse this hierarchical list, choose ( ) and ( ) .

  2. If you want to select a different layout for the list, or change the current layout, choose ( ) . For more information, see Layouts .

  3. If you want to display detailed information about the procurement alternative, double-click on the required procurement alternative, or select it and choose ( ) .

  4. The system then displays the detailed information.

    Depending on the material and process category, certain information is either shown or hidden. If the procurement alternative contains data such as the valuation type, this information is displayed. If the procurement alternative does not contain a valuation type, this information is not displayed.

  5. To delete a procurement alternative, select the procurement alternative and choose ( ) .

Changing Procurement Alternatives

  1. Choose   Accounting   Controlling   Product Cost Controlling   Product Cost Planning   Material Costing   Master Data for Mixed Cost Estimate   Edit Procurement Alternatives.  

  2. The screen Display Procurement Alternatives appears.

  3. Enter the material and plant for which you would like to change a procurement alternative. If a valuation category is also maintained for the material, you can enter a valuation type.

  4. Choose ( ) .

  5. All existing procurement alternatives for this material are hierarchically displayed, sorted by process category.

    The process category (that is, type of procurement) specifies which entries have to be made in a procurement alternative. For the process category Purchase order , for example, you are required to enter the purchasing organization and the vendor. For more information, see Procurement Alternatives and Controlling Level .

  6. Double-click on the procurement alternative in the list to be changed.

  1. Make the desired changes. For example, you can change a modifiable name or the costing lot size. You cannot change the process category. Instead, create a new procurement alternative and delete the old one.

  2. Choose Transfer , to transfer the changes to the hierarchical list of the procurement alternatives.

  3. Choose ( ) to save the procurement alternatives.

Creating Procurement Alternatives

  1. Choose   Accounting   Controlling   Product Cost Controlling   Product Cost Planning   Material Costing   Master Data for Mixed Cost Estimate   Edit Procurement Alternatives.  

  2. The screen Display Procurement Alternatives appears.

  3. Enter the material and plant for which you would like to change or display a procurement alternative. If a valuation category is also maintained for the material, you can enter a valuation type . For more information, see Joint Production and Split Valuation .

  4. Choose ( ) .

  5. In the Controlling Level screen area, choose the process category for which the procurement alternative is to be created: Purchasing , Subcontracting , Stock transfer , Purchase order or Inventory change . For more information, see Controlling Level and Process Category .

  6. In the Names screen area, a technical name is generated ( Generated name ). You cannot change this name. However, you can enter a further name, which you can change at a later time ( Changeable name ).

    The lot size is transferred from the material master as the default value (screen area Costing data ). You can change this default value.

  7. Enter data as required. The type of data required by the system is determined by the process category that you selected in step 4.

  • For the process category Purchase Order :

You can enter the purchasing organization and the vendor. You cannot enter either the vendor or the purchasing organization only. However, it is possible to enter neither. The price for the material is then determined in accordance with the valuation strategy from the material master or the purchasing data.

  • For the process category Subcontracting :

You must enter the vendor, the purchasing organization and the BOM for the material.

  • For the process category Inventory change :

Check the lot size.

  • For the process category Stock Transfer :

You must enter the special procurement plant.

  • For the process category Production :

If no production version exists for the material, you must enter the BOM and routing. If a production version exists, you must decide in a dialog box whether the procurement alternative is to be created using the production version or the BOM and routing. A production version determines the various production techniques that can be used to produce a material. You define production versions in the MRP view or the costing view in the material master record.

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If you create a procurement alternative using a BOM/routing, you must specify the complete quantity structure, that is, the BOM and the routing. You cannot enter the BOM or routing only.

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If you have already created a procurement alternative for the material using the production version, you cannot create another procurement alternative using the BOM/routing, and vice versa. This applies even if you delete all the existing procurement alternatives.

  1. Choose Transfer , to transfer the procurement alternative to the list.

  2. Choose ( ) to save the procurement alternatives.