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Check Costing
Variants for Manufacturing Orders (PP)
Thecosting variant contains the control
parameters for the cost estimate.
In this step you check the costing variants
that are used for the following in Product Cost by Order:
- For the preliminary costing of manufacturing
orders
- For the simultaneous costing and final costing
of manufacturing orders
Prerequisites
Standard
settings
The SAP standard system contains the following
costing variants for manufacturing orders:
- PPP1 Production Order - Plan
These costing
variants consist of the following:
- Costing type 06 - Production Order
Plan
This costing type
specifies that the costing results are updated as planned costs.
- Valuation variant 006 - Production Order -
Plan
This valuation
variant controls which prices are used for the valuation of materials,
external activities and subcontracting and which activity prices are used for
the valuation of activity types and business processes.
Furthermore, the
costing sheet that you assign to this valuation variant is defaulted into the
master data of the manufacturing order. This costing sheet is used for
overhead calculation in preliminary costing for the manufacturing order and
actual overhead calculation in period-end closing.
- PPP2 Production Order - Actual
This costing variant
consists of:
- Costing Type 07 - Production Order,
Actual
This costing type
specifies that the costing results are updated as actual costs.
- Valuation variant 007 - Production Order -
Actual
This valuation
variant determines which activity prices are used to valuate the activity
types and business processes on which the following activites are performed in
the actual data:
- Manual
allocation
- Automatic
allocation through confirmation in PP
- The manufacturing
order is charged through the template allocation
Note
While it is technically possible to have two
costing variants with the same costing type and valuation variant, this should
be avoided to prevent data from being overwritten.
This is because the key structure for the
costing results in the database uses the costing type and the valuation
variant, rather than the costing variant.
SAP
Recommendation
You should assign a different valuation variant
to each costing variant with which you want to save cost estimates.
This one-to-one assignment enables you to
change the valuation strategies later as required.
Actions
1. Decide
whether the existing costing variants meet your requirements.
2. To create a
new costing variant:
a) Enter an
alphanumerical key and a name for the costing variant.
b) Assign a
costing type and a valuation variant to the costing variant.
Further
Notes
The default values for each order type enable
you to define whether the planned costs are recalculated each time a change is
made that is relevant to costing. Carry out the following step: