You want to calculate the cost of your employees' office supplies. The cost element is 405200 (consumption of office supplies). You have defined the statistical key figure Employee and planned it on an activity-independent basis.

Dependency type 1, stat. key figure

The SAP R/3 System calculates the dependency price and dependency quantity according to the plan quantity for a statistical key figure.

You have planned your data as follows.

The SAP R/3 System calculates the following plan values:

The R/3 system posts 2,000 USD under cost element 405200.

You want to calculate costs per car body manufactured. In addition to consumption of metal parts, screws and rivets for each body, there is also consumption of lubricant per hour of production. You define the components of the car body as resources, and the car body itself as a statistical key figure.

Dependency type 3, quantity type

You plan costs for lubricants using dependency type 3. The R/3 System calculates the dependency price and the dependency quantity based on the planned quantity for an activity type, in this case 100 hours of activity type "Production hours".

You plan costs metal parts, screws, and rivets per car body using dependency type 1. The R/3 System calculates the dependency price and the dependency quantity based on the planned quantity or a statistical key figure, in this case Car body. Since your planning is quantity-dependent, the system calculates the planned costs using the activity-dependent statistical key figure, in this case 5 units of the statistical key figure Car body.

You have planned your data as follows.

For each resource, the R/3 System posts the following costs under the cost element that you have assigned in the relevant master record: