Executing the Asynchronous Network Costing (SAP Library

Executing the Asynchronous Network Costing

Procedure

Choose Logistics or Accounting ® Project System ® Financials ® Planning ® Network Costing.

The system may ask you to specify a controlling area and database profile.

This brings you to the screen Asynchronous Network Costing: Planned Costs and Planned Payments.

Specify one or more projects, WBS elements, or networks.

Select the indicator Read purchasing info records if you want the system to read the current purchasing info records for external activities and non-stock material components and use the updated data for:

Planned costs
Planned payments
Invoicing plans with percentage partial billing

Note that reading the purchasing data can lead to significantly longer program run times.

Select the process control fields you require:

You can run the network costing in the following ways:

Online or in background processing
As a test run or a live run

With a detailed list; the program then generates a list of all the networks included.

Choose .
Depending on the settings you enter, the system displays a list or asks you to schedule a background processing job.

Result

The system carries out the following actions as part of network costing:

Determines all planned costs (similar to the network costing within network maintenance)
Determines and records the planned outgoing payments (if Project Cash Management is active)

See Planned Payments Out from the Invoicing Plan

Planned costs are updated in the valuated project stock as viewed from procurement and usage, as follows:

If an invoicing plan has been maintained for the component, the costs are updated in the component in line with the time structure of the invoicing plan. The system considers all cost-relevant invoice plan items - that is, not down payments.

The full credit takes places as of the component requirement date. The amount credited is the invoicing plan total.

The planned costs are recorded in the externally processed activity, regardless of whether or not an invoicing plan has been maintained.

If you have not maintained an invoicing plan, the system records the debit and credit in the component as of the date the component is required by the activity. Data is updated under the separate value types:

Commercial Activity

Value Type

Debit

KPPP

Credit

KPPE

From Release 4.6A, the planned costs are recorded automatically in the material component when the network costing is carried out.

A two-level log is output.

From here, choose Messages to access the relevant error message.

Processing, the update, and error handling are on a network by network basis.

For more information on settlement, read CO - Information.