Costing (Individual Processing) 

Use

In general, the finished products of a company are costed during periodic mass processing (see Costing Run).

There are also transactions in the SAPsystem for costing individual materials. You can save, select, and release the created costings. You can also analyze individual costings with these transactions.

Features

You can use the standard transaction for the costing of individual materials for AFS materials as well (menu: Product Cost Planning). After you have exited the screen Material Costing: Initial Screen, the system creates a dialog box for split valuated materials, in which you must enter the stock keeping unit (grid value/category) that should be costed.

If you choose Create Material Costing with Quantity Structure, only enter the valuation type. That means you can no longer enter the SKUs (grid value/category) because the system determines them from the valuation type.

With Create Material Costing: Initial Screen you can only ever cost one SKU. The default value is the SKU that you have entered in the material master (AFSvaluation view) for the costing at material level.

For materials without split valuation, the dialog box is not displayed. The costing is automatically carried out based on the SKU that is entered in the AFS valuation view for the costing at material level (see Costing without Split Valuation).

In the main screen of the costing display, the system shows the valuation type of the costing. Via Additions you can view the SKU on which the costing was based. The valuated BOM also displays the SKUs of all materials involved.

Costing of Individual Materials

In addition to the R/3 standard transaction you can use a batch input transaction in the AFS application menu (see: Accounting) with which you can cost all valuation types (preference SKUs) of one material within one process.

With split valuated AFS materials you can only save a created costing if you have costed a preference SKU (see Definition of Valuation Types). Although you can cost other stock keeping units and analyze the costing, you cannot save. In the start dialog box of the costing transaction there is therefore a function that displays the preference SKUs of the material that should be costed.

This restriction is necessary to be sure that the costing of a non-preference SKU cannot be selected and released.