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Function documentation Product Costing at Valuation Type Level  Locate the document in its SAP Library structure

Features

The split valuation of AFS finished products takes place similarly to the valuation of AFS raw materials or trading goods using valuation types (see Split Valuation of AFS Materials). For each valuation type of a material you can create and release a separate costing (see Definition of Valuation Types).

When costing a valuation type, the system determines the quantity structure that should be used (bill of material, routing) based on the respective preference SKU. You should therefore combine the grid values/categories of a product that have the same grid-/category-dependent bills of material-/routing definitions into one valuation type.

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A prerequisite for the costing at valuation type level is that the accounting views that belong to the valuation types are created in the material master. There is a mass processing available for this that automatically copies the accounting views at valuation type level from the accounting view at material level (see Accounting Data of the Valuation Types).

Recommendation

You can generally define your own valuation type for each stock keeping unit of a product. Note that the number of valuation types is decisive for the performance of the costing run (see Costing Run). Therefore, the number of valuation types per product should be as few as possible. In uncertain situations, you should therefore not consider minor differences in the production costs at SKU level when defining the valuation types. Instead you should treat them as variances in the cost object controlling (see Variance Analysis).

If the number of valuation types (sum of all products) that should be processed in a costing run exceeds 10,000, you should contact your SAP consultant.

Activities

If you want to split valuate/cost an AFS product, take the following steps:

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