You use base planning objects for the following purposes:
To plan new products, such as materials and services, and create costing information where no master data (material master, BOM, routing) exists
To use existing cost estimates as a reference for the planning of new products
To simulate changes to existing products and cost estimates
For more information, see Costing Sequence and Base Planning Objects .
Editing costing items is always based on a costing variant. For more information, see Preparing for Base Object Costing .
You create a base planning object with master data and costing items.
For this, you can use either the classic, single-level unit costing or multilevel unit costing .
For more information, see Creating Base Planning Objects and Creating Costing Items .
The system valuates the costing items entered and calculates the overhead (including process costs).
For more information, see Valuation of Costing Items and Overhead Costs in Base Object Costing .
You save the base planning object and use the reports in the Product Cost Controlling Information System to analyze the costing results.
For further information, see the following:
You can use an existing base planning object for the following purposes:
As a reference for a new base planning object
As a "building block" in other unit cost estimates, such as material cost estimates without quantity structure, additive cost estimates and base planning objects.
For further information, see the following: