Preparing for Material Costing (SAP Library - Product Cost Planning (CO-PC-PCP))

Preparing for Material Costing

Use

When you create a material cost estimate, it is always linked to a costing variant. This costing variant contains all the information needed to execute a material cost estimate. You define and check costing variants in Customizing for Product Cost Planning.

Features

The following graphic gives you an overview of Customizing for material costing.

You enter the following in the costing variant:

Costing type

Definition of the valuation view to be costed

Establishment of the purpose of costing and price update

Entry of partner version to generate a partner cost component split

Valuation variant

Determination of prices with which the materials, activity types, processes, subcontracting and external activities are valuated

Costing sheet ( overhead, overhead key, template)

Price factors for inventory costing

Date control

Control of the validity of the cost estimate, quantity structure date and valuation date

Quantity structure control (applies only to material costing with quantity structure)

Determination of master data from Logistics (BOM and routing/master recipe)

Transfer control

Control of transfer of existing cost estimates

Reference variant

Control of transfer of an existing quantity structure that has already been costed

The cost estimate also receives the following information from the costing variant or costing type/valuation variant:

Cost component structure

Activation of cross-company costing

Activation of cost component split in controlling area currency

You make further settings for material costing in the costing variant, as illustrated below:

You can specify the following:

Whether the costing results can be saved

Whether system messages can be collected in a log and saved

Whether additive costs can be included in a material cost estimate

Which lot size is to be used by the system for costing

Whether the current standard cost estimate should be used for materials costed with errors

Whether the transfer control can be altered when executing a cost estimate

Activities

You define the costing variants and the various control keys in Customizing for Product Cost Controlling.

To check the Customizing settings for a costing variant for material costing, choose Accounting ® Controlling ® Product Cost Planning ® Tools ® Material Costing ® Check costing variant.

See also:

For more information about the relevant Customizing settings, see the following:

Implementation Guide (IMG) for Product Cost Controlling
The SAP Library under the following:

Subject	Document
Cost Component	Cost Component Split Cost Component Split for COGM and Primary Cost Component Split Transfer Structure for the Primary Cost Component Split Cost Components and Cost Component Structures Cost Component View in Material Costing
Valuation Variant	Valuation of the Quantity Structure Overhead Application and Process Costs
Costing Type	Costing Sequence and Price Update
Transfer Control	Use of Existing Costing Data
Date Control	Date Control
Quantity Structure Control	Quantity Structure Determination
Saving Costing Data	Saving Material Cost Estimates Logs in Material Costing
Reference Variants	Reference Costing
Partner Versions	Partner Cost Component Splits
Costing Versions	Costing Versions
Valuation Views	Group Costing