Basis Values for Network Costings 

Use

Planned costs for activities, activity elements, and material costs are calculated using the existing quantity and price structure.

Features

The system determines the basis values for the costing on the basis of the activity type and the type of material component.

Internally Processed Activities

You use internally-processed activities to plan work to be performed internally. You specify the:

The system uses the values stored in the activity or work center to determine the price for the actual type and cost center which applies in cost center accounting.

The relevant cost center is determined from the work center or using the activity type.

The planned costs are calculated on the basis of the planned work time and the valid price.

In addition to the planned work, you can define a preliminary planning amount for materials on the Assignments tab page in the detailed view. You might do this, for example, if you are not yet sure what materials you will use. If you add the material components later, the system reduces the preliminary planning amount by the amount of the material components. This function is only available if a primary cost element for preliminary material planning is defined for internally processed activities in the network profile. The preliminary planning amount is included in the costing and increases the planned costs for the activity. If the planned costs of the material components assigned to the activity exceed the amount planned for the material, the amount in the costing is set to zero.

Externally Processed Activities

You use externally-processed activities to plan work to be performed externally. The system calculates the planned costs using the price which:

If you change dates or quantities in detailed activity maintenance, the price is updated in line with the fixed price indicator for the purchase info record.

If you maintain an invoicing plan for the activity, the system copies the price from the activity into the invoicing plan as the overall price, or vice versa.

You use the reservation/requisition indicator in the detailed data for the externally processed activity to stipulate whether and when the system creates a purchase requisition for the activity.

If the purchase info record changes, you can use the asynchronous network costing to update the activities. This also updates the data in the network.

General Costs Activities

You can maintain the planned costs for the general costs activity (primary costs) in the following ways:

If you have maintained unit costings for a general costs activity, you cannot also maintain an invoicing activity for the activity, or vice versa.

In the network profile, you can define a default cost element for the general costs activity.

Activity Elements

The procedure for determining plan costs for activity elements is the same as for activities.

Material Components

Material components for the activity are differentiated, by means of item categories, as follows:

Various prices are stored for stock material in the accounting view of its material master record.

For more information, read the Material Component Inventory Management.

Pricing takes place using the matching strategy from the valuation variant. You define the valuation variant in the costing variant IMG.

In the case of components managed in valuated project stock, you can also use the unit costing to plan the costs for the material component. See Unit Costing in the Material Component .

Plan costs for material not managed as inventory are determined using the purchasing info record or from the activity item.

Prices are calculated in one of the following ways:

You use the reservation/requisition indicator in the detailed data for the material component to stipulate whether and when the system creates a purchase requisition for the component.

Configurable Materials

Configurable material components in the valuated project stock can only be valuated using the asynchronous network costing, by means of a multi-level product costing in line with the configuration settings entered. The prerequisite for this is that you enter a costing variant for valuation of configurable materials as the network costing variant.

The configurable materials are valuated at the standard price (the price stored in the material component), as part of network costing. Your configuration settings do not affect this.

Configurable materials in non-valuated project stock are always valued at the standard price.

Services

You plan services for externally-processed activities in which the Service indicator is set. The services you assign to the activity as service specifications are differentiated into the following:

The term "planned services" refers to services known to you when you start the procurement process. Planned costs for these services are determined using the price determined from the service conditions and the quantity in the service specification.

"Unplanned services" are services whose procurement cannot or should not be specified. The value you have defined as the "expected value" in the service specification for the activity is adopted as the planned costs figure.