Report Types for Internal Orders 

Use

Defaulted standard reports for internal order analysis contain the status of an internal order.

Features

The following report types are available for internal orders:

In total cost reports, the system totals actual or plan costs for each internal order within a given period across cost elements. If you specify an order group, the system generates a row for each internal order contained in the group. It then determines the total costs for the internal orders belonging to each node in the order group, and displays this in a totals row.

For more information, see Total Cost Reports.

For these reports, you must specify a cost element group during data selection. The system creates a separate row in the report for each cost element and each node of the cost element group, then it totals the corresponding cost elements for each node.

SAP provides a standard cost element group, which you need to adapt to suit your own cost element layout. This standard cost element group is independent of the chart of accounts or controlling area.

For more information, see Cost Element Reports.

There are line item reports for actual costs, plan costs, and commitments.

Actual line items are created each time you post actual costs. They contain information about the posted amount, the posting date, and the user who posted the item.

Commitment line items are generated when commitments are created (for example for purchase orders).

During internal order planning, the system creates line items if the order status specifies that planning documents should be written. Therefore, plan line items only document plan value changes made after planning documents are written for an internal order.

You can plan overall cost (independently of cost element) in internal orders, and determine the annual plan costs or the order budget. Special reports are available covering these topics.

For more information, see Overall Plan and Budget Reports

The purpose of order summarization is to group internal orders with common attributes for the reporting system. Orders are summarized in the Controlling component (CO), using master data fields. Order summarization by classification characteristics is no longer used.

In this way, you might summarize and analyze the costs of all the orders for a given order type, responsible cost center, or plant. This provides a much greater degree of cost transparency within your organization.

For more information, see Summarization.

Each report includes the internal orders within one controlling area only. Therefore, you must always specify the controlling area within data selection. If an order group contains internal orders from multiple controlling areas, then the system only includes those from the controlling area you specified.

For more information, see Order List: Master Data Index / Cost Analysis.

You can overwrite selection parameters (fiscal year, period, plan version), and enter individual single values or intervals instead of cost element groups or order groups.

Activities

To call up the report tree with the structure you have defined, choose Accounting ® Controlling ® Internal orders ® Information system ® Report selection from the Internal Orders menu.

For more information on calling up your own reports, see Selecting Order Reports