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Define Costing Variants

The control parameters for are contained in costing variants.

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 carried out. You specify the following:

• What prices are used to valuate materials, internal activities, and external activities

• Whether cost elements are assigned to the costing items

A costing variant for base object costing includes the following parameters:

• Costing type

• Valuation variant

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.

Requirements

If you want to use your own parameters you must do the following:
Define costing types
Define valuation variants

Standard settings

The standard system contains the predefined costing variant PG. This costing variant specifies costing type 02 and valuation variant 012. It enables assignment of the costing items to costing types.

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

Decide whether costing variant PG provided in the standard system meets your requirements.

To create a new costing variant: