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 Taking Activities into Account in Confirmation and Costing

Use

If you want to include the activities used in the manufacture of a product in confirmation and costing, you must first establish a link between the iPPE resource and Overhead Cost Controlling. You use this function to enter a reference in iPPE to the costing-relevant master data cost center/activity type and business process . As a result, the iPPE resource receives an activity price. This price is included in confirmation and costing.

Prerequisites

In iPPE, you have created a process structure with a routing header.

Procedure

  1. You are in the initial screen of iPPE in the Change iPPE view.

  2. Enter Process Structure as the application and Routing Header as the type. Enter the iPPE object and the class that you want to process. Choose Load.

  3. On the Navigation tab, double-click on an activity.

  4. A mode is assigned to the activity. On the Mode tab, double-click on a primary or secondary resource. The Costs tab is displayed.

  5. On the Costs tab, you can now assign a cost center/activity type or business process to the mode. A number of selection options are available:

  • Selecting cost center/activity type generates a permanent assignment between the production resource and the cost center/activity type.

  • Selecting business process generates a permanent assignment between the business process and the production resource.

  • Selecting Time-dependent: Cost Ctr/Activity Type allows you to enter different validity dates in the Valid from field for the assignment between the cost center/activity type and the production resource. The system uses the chronological sequence of these entries to automatically determine the validity periods.

  1. Confirm the data. The Save icon is activated.

  2. Save the data.

Result

The activities are included in confirmation and costing.

If you are using the Rapid Planning Matrix, the activities to be performed for each order are determined by means of the activity matrix during planning and when confirmations are entered. The duration and resource required are recorded at the mode of the activities performed.

If you are not using a Rapid Planning Matrix, the activities are determined from iPPE. Once the data recorded in APO are transferred to R/3, the activities are calculated in CO and posted as an internal activity allocation. The activities are updated only asynchronously.

For more information on the Rapid Planning Matrix, the activity matrix, and the component variant matrix, refer to the SAP Library for the Advanced Planner and Optimizer (APO).

See also:

For an overview of the entire process from confirmation to period-end closing, refer to Product Cost Controlling with Sales-Order-Related Production and Make-to-Stock Production with Reporting Points and Product Cost Controlling in Discrete Industries .