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 Cost Estimates Based On iPPE

Use

You use this function in the Industry Business Solution Discrete Industries to cost materials that were produced with iPPE and that are therefore assigned to iPPE master data (a product structure and possibly a process structure).

You cost objects that have iPPE master data using existing the cost estimates of Product Cost Planning and Cost Object Controlling. The cost estimates are also displayed and analyzed with the existing report tools.

For business purposes, cost estimates of objects with iPPE master data are not new cost estimates . The user calls up the cost estimates with the existing functions, and the system checks whether a production version with iPPE access node exists for a material or product cost collector. If it does, the corresponding iPPE quantity structure for the cost estimates is used for the cost estimate.

For more information on cost estimates in Product Cost Planning and Cost Object Controlling, refer to the documentation on the following cost estimates of the standard SAP system:

  • Standard cost estimate

  • Sales order cost estimate

  • Order BOM cost estimate

  • Preliminary cost estimate for product cost collector (with iPPE quantity structure only in make-to-stock production)

The following exposition on costing objects with iPPE master data describes only the special features of objects with iPPE master data.

Integration

This cost estimate is only available in the Industry Business Solution Discrete Industries .

You can see whether a material has iPPE master data by checking the iPPE access object in the production version as follows:

Choose Start of the navigation path Logistics Next navigation step Production Next navigation step Master Data Next navigation step Production Version. End of the navigation path Enter the required data in the screen Production Version: Mass Processing . Confirm the data and choose iPPE access . The view iPPE Access Objects displays the product structure and process structure of the material.

Prerequisites

An iPPE quantity structure (iPPE product structure, possibly also an iPPE process structure) must exist for the materials to be costed.

The material is assigned to the iPPE quantity structure through the production version.

If you want to include activities in backflushes and costing , you must first establish a link in iPPE between the iPPE resource (or the mode) and Overhead Cost Controlling.

Features

The following functions that are available when costing master data such as BOMs or routings are not supported in Costing Objects with iPPE Master Data:

  • Co-products

  • By-products (materials with negative quantities)

  • External processing operations

  • Operation scrap

  • Inclusion of nonstock items

  • Special procurement type phantom assembly

  • Activity-based costing

  • There is no relevancy to costing indicator in iPPE

Note Note

You can use the following procedure to prevent certain components and activities from being valuated:

End of the note.

  • Make customizing settings for these materials so that they have no accounting view or costing view in their material master.

  • Do not assign the activities in the resource to the cost center/activity type.

  • The customizing settings for quantity structure determination have no influence on these cost estimates. It is not possible to specify in the material master which quantity structure is used when the material is costed.

  • Reservations of materials in other plants, as well as withdrawals of materials from other plants, are ignored.

  • The assembly scrap factor defined in the material master is ignored in the iPPE cost estimate. The iPPE cost estimate only takes into account the assembly scrap defined in the iPPE access.

Activities

  1. You execute the cost estimates as usual.

  2. The system checks whether a material or product cost collector has a production version with an iPPE access node. If it does, the corresponding iPPE quantity structure for the cost estimates is used for the cost estimate.

  3. In the cost estimate header, the system sets the iPPE Costing indicator so that you can tell what type of quantity structure was used.

  4. In the itemization, you can use the layout function of the ABAP List Viewer (ALV) to display the iPPE-specific fields (such as the product structure, iPPE activity, process structure, variant, alternative). The usual fields work center , work center ID , suboperation , work center test , and operation number are not available in this scenario.

See also:

For an overview of the entire process from confirmation to period-end closing, refer to Product Cost Controlling with Sales-Order-Related Production and Make-to-Stock Production with Reporting Points and Product Cost Controlling in Discrete Industries .