Product Cost Planning is used to determine the planned cost of goods manufactured for a product. In Profitability Analysis (CO-PA), you can access these material cost estimates to valuate the data in CO-PA. This includes cost estimates both with and without quantity structures.
With this function, you determine which cost estimates from Product Cost Planning should be used to valuate actual or planning data in CO-PA. You do this by defining costing keys. A costing key is a set of access parameters that are used in valuation to determine which data in Product Cost Planning should be read.
A costing key consists of a combination of the following parameters:
==> Transfer sales order cost estimate
==> Costing variant
==> Costing version
==> Costing date
==> Period/year
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Transfer auxiliary cost component split
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Transfer cost estimate in controlling area currency
==> Plant used for reading cost estimate
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Exclusive access to cost estimate
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Error message if no cost estimate found
Define all the costing keys you want to use to valuate actual and planning data in Profitability Analysis.