You can perform cost analyses for maintenance task lists with the Plant Maintenance component. This allows you to see which of the operations described have created which costs in a maintenance task list. This enables you to control your costs without creating an order.

All the data entry fields relevant to costing and the preparation possibilities of the costing result must have been set using the customizing function by your CO consultant.

The cost analysis can refer either to entire task lists or individual operations (for example, all externally processed operations).

Enter the following data in the costs analysis:

• All material costs
• All costs for external processing
• All costs for internal processing

Cost calculation depends on the costing variant (for example, with or without surcharges) assigned to the order type that is used as a basis for the cost analysis.

You can only run the cost analysis program for one maintenance task list type. If you want to calculate the costs for equipment task lists and for functional location task lists, you must run the program once for the equipment task lists and again for the functional location task lists.

Within the cost analysis framework, you can create a log which checks all the costing relevant master data for completeness and consistency. For example, the system checks if all activity types and valuation segments of the assigned materials are maintained. The system creates a corresponding message in the cost analysis when errors or inaccuracies occur.

This inconsistency check is important to ensure that the task list is correct before it is included in the maintenance order. Only in this way can you ensure that there will be no problems when creating the order as a result of inadequately maintained data.