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Costing Data for Maintenance Orders

In this step, you create different control parameters for order costing. These control parameters are linked to a costing variant.

For orders, you define control parameters for the valuation of quantity structure and the calculation ofoverheads.

These parameters are determined by the following generic terms:

The costing variant groups all costing control parameters together. It is specified during order costing and consequently represents the link between the application and Customizing.
The costing type determines, among other things, for which reference object (for example, material, order, project) costing is performed and whether the reference object can be costed via the functionality of product costing, the functionality of unit costing, or the functionality of both.
The valuation variant determines which of the moving average prices that are listed in the costing or order are used for materials, internal labor and external labor. It also determines how the overhead rates are calculated.
The indicator for relevancy to costing determines whether a BOM item, a material component or an operation is taken into account for costing. For inventory costing, you can also store factors for each relevancy indicator.
In this step, you determine how the results of product costing are to be stored by allocating a structure to the costing variant.
In this step, you determine which numbers for the costing documents are assigned internally by the system.

Example

Costing type 01 is used to create the standard cost estimate for a material. This costing can be carried out either via PP master data such as bills of material and task lists (product costing) or via unit costing.

You would now like to carry out a valuation in which the materials are valuated with the standard price, and internal labor is valuated with the planned standard rate for the corresponding period from cost center accounting. The key date for the valuation should be the beginning of the next posting period.

Further Notes

When testing the settings, please note that the surcharges you define appear in the planned costs determination in the order.

The surcharges which are posted on the order using the actual costs, for example, overheads on material or time completion confirmations, are determined by an internal transaction and the orders concerned are automatically applied overhead.

For this reason, you also do not see any overheads in the costs overview of the order directly after the actual costs postings.