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Define Keys for Accessing Material Cost Estimates

With this function, you can specify which cost estimates in Product Cost Planning should be used to valuate plan data in Profit Center Accounting.

For profit planning, the planned output costs are required from product cost planning, from the profit center valuation view. For this purpose, you define a set of access parameters, known as costing keys.

These parameters include the following:

• Costing variant

• Costing version

• Costing date

• Period/Year

• Plan period indicator

Requirements

You are using transfer prices to represent the profit center viewpoint.

You are using material costing.

You have defined representative materials.

Activities

Define all the necessary costing keys that you want to use to valuate plan data in Profit Center Accounting. You can find further information on this topic in the Implementation Guidelines (IMG) for Product Cost Controlling, under Cost Estimate with Quantity Structure .