Production Cost Management (SAP Library - Product Cost Controlling)

Production Cost Management

Technical name: SAP_BW_CO_PRODCOST_CONTROLLING

Topic Area

The topic area Production Cost Management contains all reports in the Business Warehouse for Cost Object Controlling.

For background information on the concept of roles, refer to Roles in Controlling.

Structure

Tasks in the Business Information Warehouse

The reports provide answers to questions such as the following:

How high were our costs last month? How close were the actual costs to the planned costs?
What is the overall trend for costs in the current fiscal year?
How much scrap was incurred in production?

This topic area contains reports on the following areas:

Production variances
Plan-actual and target-actual comparisons
Resource consumption (materials, cost centers, activity types)
Value of work-in-process inventories

For background information on the different types of queries (analysis reports, overview reports, material reports, detail reports), refer to Queries in Controlling.

Different overview reports cover different time frames:

Current situation (last period)

Quarterly reports

Period overview for the current fiscal year

In addition, various ranking lists are available (such as the query Overview of Actual Costs – Top 5 Orders)

Check whether the workbook is appropriate for your company in the section Use in the relevant InfoCubes:

Task Area

Task	Workbooks	InfoCube
Resource Consumption	Production: Analysis – Target/Actual Activities and Overhead	CO-PC-OBJ: Cost Object Controlling
	Production: Analysis – Target/Actual Material Consumption
	Production: Analysis – Target/Actual
	Production: Analysis – Plan/Actual
	Production: Overview – Cost Centers – Activities – Situation
	Production: Overview – Material Consumption – Situation
	Production: Overview – Orders for Customer – Plan/Actual – Situation
	Production: Overview – Orders for Project – Plan/Actual – Situation
	Production: Overview – Target/Actual – Current Situation
	Production: Overview – Target/Actual Costs
	Production: Overview – Target/Actual – Cost Elements
	Production: Overview – Target/Actual – Quarterly
	Production: Overview – Actual Costs – Current Fiscal Year
	Production: Overview – Actual Costs – Top 5 Orders
	Production: Overview – Target/Actual – Current Fiscal Year
	Production: Detail – Order – Plan/Actual
	Production: Detail – Order – Target/Actual
	Production: Detail – Material – Target/Actual – Current Situation
Work in Process	Production: Analysis – Work in Process
	Production: Detail – Order – Work in Process
	Production: Overview – Work in Process – Top 5 Orders
	Production: Overview – Work in Process – Current Fiscal Year
Variances	Production: Analysis – Variances
	Production: Analysis – Variance Categories
	Production: Detail – Order – Variance Categories
	Production: Overview – Variances – Top 5 Orders
	Production: Overview – Scrap Variances – Current Fiscal Year
	Production: Overview – Scrap Variances – Top 5 Orders
	Production: Overview – Scrap
	Production: Overview – Variances – Current Fiscal Year

Integration

Roles are also available for the following topic areas in Controlling:

Cost Center Accounting

Activity-Based Costing

Internal Orders

Inventory Valuation

Product Cost Planning

Management: Cost Centers (Regular Reports)

Management: Plant Controlling (Regular Reports)