EA-FIN: Product Cost Controlling 

The functions described below are part of the Financials Extension (EA-FIN) business function.

Technical Data

Technical name of the business function	EA-FIN
Type of business function	Enterprise Extension
Documentation based on release	SAP ERP 6.0
SAP software component	EA-APPL
SAP application component	Product Cost Controlling (CO-PC)
Additional content available in other SAP applications	Not relevant
Business function requiring activation in addition	Not relevant

 

Use

The Financials Extension business function provides you with the following enhancements in the application components below:

●      Cost Object Controlling

Mass Costing for Sales Document Items

●      Actual Costing/Material Ledger

○       Alternative Valuation Run

○       Revaluation of Consumption

○       Distribute Consumption Differences

○       Manually Changing Actual Cost Component Splits

○       Valuated Quantity Structure (multilevel)

○       Value Flow Monitor

○       WIP Revaluation

○       Sending Material Prices

○       Mass Processing of Controlling Level

○       New Material Price Analysis

○       Prices in the Material Ledger (transaction CKMLLA) and Cost Components for Price (transaction LACCS)

Prerequisites

You have activated the Financials Extension (EA-FIN) business function. Only if so are the necessary Implementation Guide (IMG) activities provided in the IMG for Customizing, and the additional functions in the area menu or in the costing cockpit.

Features

For information about the functions, see the SAP Library under SAP ERP Central Component → Accounting → Controlling (CO) → Product Cost Controlling (CO-PC) → Cost Object Controlling (CO-PC-OBJ) or Actual Costing/Material Ledger (CO-PC-ACT):

●      Mass Costing for Sales Document Items

→ Product Cost by Sales Order → Planned Cost Calculation in Product Cost by Sales Order → Mass Costing for Sales Document Items

●      Alternative Valuation Run

→ Periodic Actual Costing → Alternative Valuation Run

●      Revaluation of Consumption

→ Periodic Actual Costing → Costing Run → Process Flow: Periodic Actual Costing → Revaluation of Consumption

●      Distribute Consumption Differences

→ Distributing Consumption Differences

●      Manually Changing Actual Cost Component Splits

→ Actual Cost Component Split → Manual Change of Actual Cost Component Splits

●      Valuated Quantity Structure (multilevel)

→ Actual Costing/Material Ledger Information System → Detail Reports → Valuated Quantity Structure (multilevel)

●      Value Flow Monitor

→ Actual Costing/Material Ledger Information System → Object List → Value Flow Monitor

●      WIP Revaluation

●      Sending Material Prices

→ Price Change → Sending Material Prices

●      Mass processing for Processing of Controlling Level

You can access this function using the following menu path: Accounting → Controlling → Product Cost Controlling → Actual Costing/Material Ledger → Environment → Set Up Controlling Levels – Mass Processing (transaction CKMLMV_MCA_N).

●      New Material Price Analysis (CKM3N)

Once you have activated the business function, the new material price analysis (transaction CKM3N) is called under Accounting → Controlling → Product Cost Controlling → Actual Costing/Material Ledger → Information System → Detail Reports → CKM3 - Material Price Analysis.

●      Prices in the Material Ledger (CKMLLA) and Cost Components for Price (LACCS)

For more information, see the following SAP Notes:

○       872421: Cost component display for activity types

○       880148: CKMLLASHOW/CKMLLACHANGE: New display