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Assign Costing Keys to Products

Here you assign up to three costing keys to a single product for a specific point of valuation, record type, Planversion.

This assignment determines when and for which record type and plan version the system should read the product cost estimate specified in the costing key for that product.

For any "Valid to" date, you can assign up to three costing keys to one product . This means that you can access up to three cost estimates at the same time during valuation, and thus update the results of three valuation methods in parallel. The individual cost estimates are processed in the order in which they are entered here.

Example


PV  Rec.   Plan ver.   Product  Valid to    C.key 1 C.key 2 C.key 3



01   F                 MAT01     31.12.2002  001     002



01   F                 MAT02     31.12.2002  001

Further Notes

In order to valuate CO-PA line items using material cost estimates in Product Cost Planning, you must define your valuation strategy so that the system accesses product costing for the desired point of valuation.

If you are valuating using more than one costing key, note that a value field can only be filled by valuation if it is empty. In other words, each value field can only be filled once, and is never overwritten.

The system follows certain rules for determining which costing keys to use:

1. First it checks whether one or more costing keys has been assigned to the product being valuated. If so, it valuates the data using only those costing keys.
2. If no costing key is assigned to the product, the system checks whether any costing keys have been assigned to the material type of the product. If so, the data is valuated only using those costing keys.
3. If no costing keys have been assigned to the material type, the system then checks whether any costing keys have been assigned to other characteristics using the flexible assignment function. If no costing keys are found in this manner, the transaction cannot be valuated using a material cost estimate.
Likewise, no valuation is carried out if an entry exists in one of these assignment tables but does not contain a costing key.

Activities

Specify which costing keys you want to use to valuate your individual products. If you do not want to specify this separately for each product, proceed to the next steps.