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Function documentation Costs Maintenance  Locate the document in its SAP Library structure

Use

Costs play an essential role for optimization-based planning in Supply Network Planning (SNP). The optimizer selects the plan with the lowest total costs from all the permitted production plans.

Use this function to define all costs used by the optimizer and assigned to the master data from a single point of access. The master data is then automatically updated for the selected planning version.

To call the function, on the SAP Easy Access screen, choose Advanced Planning and Optimization Master Data Application-Specific Master Data Supply Network Planning  Maintain Costs(Directory) or Maintain Costs (Table).

Features

You can define the following costs:

·        Production costs

·        Storage costs

·        Handling costs

·        Transportation costs

·        Procurement costs

·        Costs for late delivery

·        Costs for non-delivery

·        Costs for using the available capacity of resources

·        Cost functions

See Also

Master Data Setup for the Optimizer

Master Data Setup for the Deployment Optimizer

Automatic Cost Generation

Application Examples for the SNP Optimizer

 

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