Example

You are a product manager and want to plan the packaging costs incurred in the coming fiscal year for your material group at period level. To do this, you start the query and specify in the selection screen for the following selection criteria the values for which you want to plan costs:

Once you have confirmed the selection criteria, the system displays a table with columns for the material groups (your material group), the customer groups, the general ledger accounts (cost elements), the actual values of the previous fiscal year, the planned values of the coming fiscal year, and a difference column. There is a column in the query for periods 1 - 12 for the year selected for both actual and planned values. The fields in the plan columns are ready for input You can enter there your planned costs in the rows for the corresponding G/L account.