Standard Cost Estimates (SAP Library

Standard Cost Estimates

Use

You usually create a standard cost estimate for a material at the beginning of a fiscal year or a new season. The standard cost estimate is then valid for the entire year or season. You can use it to determine a standard price for materials in this period.

You should not change the standard cost estimate during this period. The results of the cost estimate then remain constant and are not influenced by price fluctuations or changes in the production setup during the course of the planning period.

You valuate the planned quantity structure of a standard cost estimate with standard prices. A standard cost estimate for a material is not linked to an order or to a production version.

Prerequisites

You create a cost estimate based on a costing variant. For standard cost estimates, the costing variant contains the following settings:

The costing type specifies that the costing results can be updated as the standard price in the material master.
The valuation variant specifies that the materials are valuated with standard prices or planned prices.

For more information, see Preparing for Costing: Customizing.

For standard cost estimates for materials involving repetitive manufacturing, you must do the following in the MRP view of the material master:

Set the Repetitive mfg indicator

Enter a repetitive manufacturing profile

Features

The standard cost estimate calculates a standard price for materials with "S" price control:

If you mark the standard cost estimate, the system writes the results of the cost estimate into the costing view of the material master record as the future standard price. You can use this price to valuate a material component in the cost estimate.

If you release the standard cost estimate, the system transfers the result of the standard cost estimate into the material master record of the material as the standard price. This price is then active for Financial Accounting and is used for valuation of the material until the next time a standard cost estimate is released.

From this period on, all transactions involving products produced in-house are valuated in the Logistics module using the standard price (that is, the results of the standard cost estimate). If a material with standard price control is delivered to stock, for example, inventories of this material are valuated with the standard price as determined by the standard cost estimate. This provisional valuation can be corrected at a later date following the settlement of the actual costs that occurred in the period.

Note

Valuation using standard prices calculated in the standard cost estimate applies only to materials with "S" price control.

You can also use the results of the standard cost estimate to determine the following data for each production order or run schedule header (make-to-stock production) at the end of the accounting period:

Variances for the actual costs of a product
Prices for confirmed scrap quantities
Target costs for valuating the work in process based on the confirmed quantities

See also:

For more information about using the costing results, see the following documents:

Purpose of Product Cost Planning

Price Update

For more information about executing a cost estimate, see Cost Estimate with Quantity Structure: Process Flow.

For more information about standard cost estimates in connection with valuated sales order stock, see CO Cost Object Controlling (CO-PC-OBJ) in the R/3 Library under the following documents:

Valuated Sales Order Stock: Valuation

Standard Price Calculation with a Valuated Sales Order Stock

For more information about calculating material prices when using the Actual Costing/Material Ledger component, see the R/3 Library under Actual Costing/Material Ledger (CO-PC-ACT) in the documents

Actual Costing/Material Ledger

Standard Price Versus Moving Average Price

Price Control and Material Price Determination

Integration of Actual Costing/Material Ledger

For more information about using standard prices for material valuation, see the R/3 Library under MM Material Valuation in the following documents:

Price Control

Value Calculation with Standard Price: Example