Variance Categories
Report that you can use with product drilldown to analyze the individual variance categories for the following application components:
Product Cost by Order
Product Cost by Period
The reporting time frame can be cumulative or limited.
This report makes it possible for you to analyze the results of the variance calculation. The results of variance calculation are different depending on the target cost version specified for the report.
You can compare the following costs:
Target costs that have been calculated on the basis of standard costs against actual costs (without work in process and scrap variances).
Target costs that have been calculated on the basis of a preliminary cost estimate of an order (product cost collector or manufacturing order) against actual costs (without work in process and scrap variances).
Target costs that have been calculated on the basis of an alternative material cost estimate (for example, modified standard cost estimate, current cost estimate) against net actual costs (without work in process and scrap variances).
Target costs calculated on the basis of standard costs against planned costs of manufacturing orders.
Integration
Variance Categories
The following variance categories are shown based on key figures and/or original cost elements:
Scrap variance
Input price variance
Input quantity variance
Resource-usage variance
Remaining input variance
Mixed price variance
Output price variance
Lot size variance
Remaining variance
Header Information
Object information
Reporting time frame
Prerequisites
Make sure that the variances have been calculated for the specific target cost version in the relevant reporting time frame.
Reports for summarized analysis require that a data collection run be executed beforehand.
Recommendation
This report is intended for more detailed analysis of target / actual / production variances. You can normally navigate from product drilldowns to the variance categories report.
More Information
In the documentation for Cost Object Controlling
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Basic information on variance calculation can be found in:
Detailed information on the individual variance categories can be found in the following:
Information on the target cost versions and their resulting comparison values can be found in the following: