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Define Costing
Variants
Costing variants contain control parameters for all aspects of
costing.
The costing variant forms the link between the
application and Customizing, since cost estimates are created and saved with
reference to a costing variant.
The costing variant controls how costing is
executed, such as:
- Whether the costing results are planned costs
or actual costs
- Which prices are used to valuate materials,
internal activities, and external activities
- How overhead is calculated
A costing variant includes the following groups
of settings:
Note
Although 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.
The reason for this is that the key structure
for the costing results in the database uses the costing type and the
valuation variant, rather than the costing variant.
Standard
settings
The standard system contains a number of
predefined costing variants.
SAP
recommendation
You should assign a different valuation variant
to each costing variant with which you intend to save cost
estimates.
This one-to-one assignment enables you to
change the valuation strategies later as required.
Actions
1. Enter an
alphanumeric key and a name for the costing variant.
2. In the
detail screen, assign a costing type and a valuation variant to a costing
variant.
3. If the
costing variant is used for a base object cost estimate, you define whether
the costing types are to be assigned to the costing items. For all other
reference objects in unit costing, the costs have to be totalled by cost
element.
4. If the
costing variant is used for product costing, you define:
- Whether the costing results are
saved
- Whether a unit cost estimate is used for a
specific assembly
- Whether cost components should be entered
manually
- How error messages are displayed for a cost
estimate
- How you want the system to search for valid
alternatives to create the quantity structure