In
Product Cost by Sales Order you can create cost estimates for sales order items (items in a customer inquiry, a customer quotation, or sales order). Such a cost estimate is called a sales order cost estimate.
You can also create
order BOM cost estimates. Like a sales order cost estimate, an order BOM cost estimate is created with reference to a sales document item.
A sales order cost estimate or an order BOM cost estimate calculates the cost of goods manufactured or the cost of goods sold for the material being manufactured for a sales order.
You can cost sales orders with the costing method product costing or with the costing method unit costing.
For standard orders, the costing results are updated on the sales order item as cost elements and costing items, and are available for analysis, for stock valuation of the valuated sales order stock. They can also be used as the basis for results analysis.
For inquiries and quotations, the costs are used as the basis for pricing but cannot be displayed in Controlling.
The costing results can be transferred into the pricing procedure (SD) as a condition value. This value can:
Order BOM cost estimates are always created with the costing method of product costing.
Product costing calculates the cost of goods manufactured for a material assigned to the sales order item, on the basis of the BOM and routing for the material.
Product costing can also calculate the costs for materials that do not have BOMs or routings (such as trading goods).
You can also edit a product cost estimate with unit costing, for example to add special costs of sales to a sales order item.
In a unit cost estimate, you enter costing items for:
You can calculate the overhead and therefore the cost of goods sold for each sales order item on the basis of a costing sheet that is defaulted into the sales order item from the requirements class. The costing key in the costing sheet allows you to select a template that can be used for template allocation.