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Use

In the case of make-to-stock repetitive manufacturing, the system posts the material costs to the product cost collector at the time of the goods receipt confirmation.

Depending on the settings in Customizing, the system also automatically posts the planned production activities from the cost estimate to the product cost collector. If the actual production activities vary from the planned production activities, you can also enter the actual activities (actual times) in the goods receipt confirmation.

Prerequisites

  • Customizing

    You have created a repetitive manufacturing profile that allows the entry of "actual" activities. To do this, select Post Activities in the Cost Accounting section of the repetitive manufacturing profile. You can also choose whether you want to confirm using the data from the standard cost estimate for the material (cross-version) or the data from the preliminary costing (version-specific).

  • Work centers

    • You have created a work center or a line hierarchy for the production line.

    • On the Basic Data tab page for the work centers, you have specified a standard value key that specifies the composition of the various standard values (for example, for the setup time, the machine time, or the teardown time).

    • On the Cost Centers tab page for the work centers, you have specified the cost center and assigned the activity types to the standard values.

  • Routing

    You have assigned a control key that allows a confirmation and cost estimate to each operation in the routing. To do this, choose Cost Estimate in the control key and enter an indicator that allows confirmation in the Confirmation field.

  • Material master

    • You have entered the previously defined repetitive manufacturing profile in the MRP data for the material.

    • You have created a production version containing the work center and the routing in the MRP data for the material.

    • You have chosen for the material a repetitive manufacturing profile that allows the posting of activities to a product cost collector.

  • You have created a product cost collector.

  • Depending on the setting in the repetitive manufacturing profile, you have carried out a standard cost estimate for the material or a preliminary costing for the production version. The standard cost estimate must be flagged and released.

  • Alternatively, starting from the initial screen for confirmation, you have selected activity posting via Details .

Features

  • The posting of production activities is optional. The system determines the production activities from the standard cost estimate for the material or from the preliminary costing for the product cost collector. For the activity posting, the routing valid at the time of the cost estimate is relevant. At this time, the system creates a copy of the routing and uses it to determine the production activities.

    If the actual times differ from the planned times in the routing, you can also enter actual times. (For more information, see Correcting Activities .)