Define PA Transfer Structure for Variance Settlement (SAP Library

Define PA Transfer Structure for Variance Settlement

In this IMG activity, you define a transfer structure for transferring production variances during the settlement of production orders.

When variances are calculated in Cost Object Controlling (CO-PC), production variances are determined and stored. When you settle production orders, you can transfer these variances - differentiated by cost element and variance category - to value fields in CO-PA.

Although it is technically possible, via a joint maintenance dialog, to use the same PA transfer structures from different allocation types to settle production variances, you should instead define separate PA transfer structures.

Activities

1. Create an identification code and a corresponding name for a PA transfer structure.

2. Decide how you want to divide the variances and define corresponding assignment lines in the PA transfer structure. This division is then applied to transfer the production variances to the value fields in CO-PA.

Select the indicator for quantity billed/delivered in the assignment line that is used for transferring to CO-PA the quantity of the production order that has been delivered to the plant. A CO-PA value field must be assigned under "Value fields" to such an assignment line for the delivered quantity (quantity/value indicator "2"). When the production order is settled to CO-PA, the delivered quantity is transferred to the assigned field.

3. For each assignment line, enter the cost element(s) or the cost element group from which the production variances are to be settled, and select a variance category as the source (such as price variances for materials input). If, instead of a variance category, you select the "Costs/Revenues" option as the source, all variances of the entered cost element are settled to the production order.

4. For each assignment line, enter the value field (or, if costs are split into fixed and variable portions, both value fields) into which the appropriate variance category is to be imported.

5. In the next activity, assign your PA transfer structure to the desired settlement profile.