Selecting Materials for the Costing Run 

Use

After you have created the costing run, you can select the materials to be costed. How you select the materials depends on whether you work with closed BOMs (which cannot be configured) or open (configurable) BOMs.

For materials that are often produced in the same way, BOMs and routings for each material are defined in Production Planning.

For multi-variant products, BOMs and routings are defined in the PP component for what is called a standard product. You create a material master record that refers to the standard product for every variant of the standard product. You create a BOM and a routing for the standard product. You also define dependencies between the different components in the BOM and the activities in the routing. On the basis of these dependencies, the system can determine precisely which BOM components and routing activities are required to produce the variant.

Prerequisites

You have created the costing run.

Procedure

  1. In the Selection step, choose (Change parameters).

    2. The screen Costing Run: Selection - Change Parameters appears.

  2. Enter a range of material numbers, low-level codes, material types and/or plants. You can select the following:
    1. All materials in all plants
    2. Specific materials
    3. Specific material types
  1. To be able to recost all materials in the BOM, you can set the Always recalculate material indicator for the selection.

    2. In the costing run, you can use the transfer control ID to specify whether existing cost estimates are transferred for certain materials. By doing so, you can prevent the materials from being reselected for costing. To be able to recost all materials in the BOM, you can set the Always recalculate material indicator for the selection. This restricts the transfer control function.

  2. If you want to select and cost configured materials (stock types) only, set the indicator Select configured mats only.

If you work with open BOMs, you must carry out the processing step Selection to select the configured materials in a plant. Standard products have the material type KMAT and cannot be costed.

The BOM for a configured material does not usually consist of configured materials only. To increase performance, you can do the following:
    1. Cost all non-configurable materials
    2. Define a transfer strategy from which you can access these costing results (see also: Transfer of Costing Data)
    3. Select and cost the configured materials
  1. Decide whether this step should be carried out in the background.

    2. If you want to cost online, turn off the Background processing indicator. For more information, see Background Processing.

  2. If you want to print the log for this step, turn on the Print log indicator.
  3. Save the selection parameters with .
  4. Choose .

    5. You return to the dialog box Edit costing run:

  5. To execute material selection, choose in the Selection processing step.

    6. After selecting the materials, you can display the section Costing results and display a list of the materials and their data (such as the plant and costing lot size) through the material overview.

    If you have set the Background processing indicator, the materials are not selected; instead, the system displays the Background Processing: Job Parameters dialog box. Enter the start date and other start criteria for the background job.

    Choose Copy to schedule or start the job. Choose Goto ® Job Overview to branch to an overview of all background jobs.

    If you choose Goto ® Schedule Manager, you access the Schedule Manager.

  6. Choose to update the displayed costing run data.
  7. Save the costing run with .

Result

After selecting the materials, you see the status, the number of materials selected and the number of materials selected with errors.

To check all the messages that occurred during the selection, choose (Display Log). The message log provides an overview of the results of the material selection and the option to prevent potential errors before carrying out further steps.

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