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Preface
19
Concept of this Book
19
Target Audience
20
Structure of this Book
21
Part I: Integrated Planning
21
Part II: Product Cost Planning
21
Part III: Cost Object Controlling
23
Part IV: Information System and Trends
25
Looking Ahead
25
Acknowledgments
26
Part I: Integrated Planning
27
1 Integrated Planning
29
1.1 Profitability Analysis
30
1.2 Sales and Operations Planning
31
1.3 Flexible Planning
33
1.3.1 Display Info Structure
33
1.3.2 Create Info Structure
34
1.3.3 Planning Hierarchy
39
1.3.4 Planning Types
45
1.3.5 Macros
48
1.3.6 Version Management
51
1.4 Long-Term Planning
53
1.4.1 Transfer the Production Plan
53
1.4.2 Create a Planning Scenario
55
1.4.3 Long-Term Planning Run
56
1.4.4 Transfer Requirements to Purchasing
59
1.4.5 Transfer Activity Quantities to CCA
62
1.5 Cost Center Planning
65
1.5.1 Cost Element Planning
65
1.5.2 Activity Price Planning
68
1.5.3 Uploading Plan Data from Excel
71
1.6 Final Planning
75
1.6.1 Calculate Standard Costs
75
1.6.2 Transfer Standard Costs to CO-PA
76
1.7 Summary
76
Part II: Product Cost Planning
79
2 Controlling Master Data
81
2.1 Cost Element
82
2.1.1 Primary Postings
82
2.1.2 Secondary Postings
86
2.1.3 Basic Data
87
2.1.4 Indicators
89
2.1.5 Default Account Assignment
90
2.1.6 History
94
2.2 Cost Center
95
2.2.1 Standard Hierarchy
95
2.2.2 Basic Data
99
2.2.3 Control
103
2.2.4 Templates
104
2.2.5 Address and Communication
106
2.2.6 History
106
2.3 Activity Type
107
2.3.1 Basic Data
107
2.3.2 Indicators
114
2.3.3 Output
116
2.3.4 History
117
2.3.5 Group
117
2.4 Statistical Key Figures
119
2.5 Summary
120
3 Material Master Data
121
3.1 MRP 1 View
122
3.1.1 General Data
122
3.1.2 Lot Size Data
124
3.2 MRP 2 View
127
3.3 MRP 4 View
130
3.3.1 BOM Explosion and Dependent Requirements
130
3.3.2 Discontinued Parts
134
3.4 Costing 1 View
135
3.4.1 General Data
136
3.4.2 Quantity Structure Data
139
3.5 Costing 2 View
147
3.5.1 Standard Cost Estimate
147
3.5.2 Planned Prices
149
3.5.3 Valuation Data
151
3.6 Accounting 1 View
156
3.6.1 General Data
157
3.6.2 Current Valuation
158
3.6.3 Previous Period/Year
161
3.6.4 Standard Cost Estimate
161
3.7 Accounting 1 View: Material Ledger Activated
162
3.7.1 General Valuation Data
164
3.7.2 Prices and Values
167
3.8 Accounting 2 View
170
3.8.1 Populate Tax Price and Commercial Price
171
3.8.2 Using the Tax and Commercial Price Fields
176
3.9 Summary
178
4 Logistics Master Data
179
4.1 Bill of Materials
179
4.1.1 Basic Data
181
4.1.2 Status/Long Text
184
4.1.3 Administration
186
4.1.4 Document Assignment
187
4.2 Work Centers
188
4.2.1 Basic Data
189
4.2.2 Default Values
191
4.2.3 Capacities
194
4.2.4 Scheduling
197
4.2.5 Costing
200
4.3 Routing
203
4.3.1 Header
204
4.3.2 Operation Overview
206
4.3.3 Operation Details
207
4.4 Product Cost Collector
213
4.4.1 Data
215
4.4.2 Header
220
4.4.3 Production Process
226
4.4.4 List Product Cost Collectors
228
4.5 Purchasing Info Record
230
4.5.1 Purchasing Organization Data 1
231
4.5.2 Conditions
232
4.5.3 Plant-Specific Purchasing Info Records
235
4.6 Source List
237
4.6.1 Fixed Source of Supply
238
4.6.2 Blocked Source of Supply
239
4.7 Summary
239
5 Costing Sheets
241
5.1 Overhead
241
5.2 Calculation Base
243
5.3 Overhead Rate
244
5.3.1 Percentage Overhead
245
5.3.2 Quantity-Based Overhead
250
5.4 Credit Key
253
5.5 Summary
254
6 Cost Components
255
6.1 Cost Component Terms
255
6.2 Cost Components with Attributes
258
6.2.1 Control
260
6.2.2 Filter Criteria for Cost Component Views
262
6.2.3 Delta Profit for Group Costing
264
6.2.4 Cost Summarization
265
6.2.5 Assign Cost Elements to Cost Components
266
6.2.6 Update of Additive Costs
267
6.2.7 Transfer Structure
267
6.3 Cost Component View
270
6.3.1 Cost Estimate Display
273
6.3.2 Overhead Calculation
274
6.3.3 Other Components
275
6.4 Organizational Units of Cost Components
276
6.4.1 Main Cost Component Structure
277
6.4.2 Auxiliary Cost Component Structure
277
6.4.3 Check Assignment to Organizational Units
278
6.5 Cost Component Groups
280
6.5.1 Create Cost Component Groups
280
6.5.2 Assign Groups to Cost Components
282
6.5.3 Assign Groups to Report Columns
282
6.6 Summary
285
7 Costing Variant Components
287
7.1 Define Costing Variant
287
7.2 Costing Type
289
7.2.1 Price Update
291
7.2.2 Save Parameters
294
7.2.3 Miscellaneous
296
7.3 Valuation Variant
299
7.3.1 Material Valuation
300
7.3.2 Activity Types and Processes
307
7.3.3 Subcontracting
312
7.3.4 External Processing
314
7.3.5 Overhead
316
7.3.6 Miscellaneous
317
7.4 Date Control
320
7.4.1 Costing Date From
321
7.4.2 Costing Date To
321
7.4.3 Quantity Structure Date
322
7.4.4 Valuation Date
322
7.5 Quantity Structure Control
322
7.5.1 BOM
324
7.5.2 Routing
330
7.6 Transfer Control
333
7.6.1 Single-Plant
334
7.6.2 Cross-Plant
337
7.7 Reference Variant
338
7.8 Summary
341
8 Costing Variant Tabs
343
8.1 Control
343
8.2 Quantity Structure
344
8.2.1 Pass On Lot Size
345
8.2.2 Ignore Cost Estimate without Quantity Structure
346
8.2.3 Transfer Control Can Be Changed
347
8.2.4 Transfer Active Standard Cost Estimate if Errors
349
8.2.5 Transfer Cost Estimate of an Order BOM
350
8.3 Additive Costs
351
8.3.1 Additive Cost Components
352
8.3.2 Include Additive Costs with Stock Transfers
352
8.4 Update
353
8.4.1 Saving Allowed
354
8.4.2 Save Error Log
354
8.4.3 Defaults Can Be Changed by User
355
8.4.4 Itemization
356
8.5 Assignments
357
8.5.1 Cost Component Structure
357
8.5.2 Costing Version
357
8.5.3 Cost Component Split in Controlling Area Currency
359
8.5.4 Cross-Company Costing
360
8.6 Miscellaneous
361
8.6.1 Error Management
361
8.6.2 Parameters for Error Management
362
8.7 Summary
363
9 Standard Cost Estimates
365
9.1 Create Standard Cost Estimate
366
9.1.1 Costing Data
366
9.1.2 Dates
367
9.1.3 Quantity Structure
368
9.2 Mark and Release
371
9.3 Costing Runs
373
9.3.1 Costing Data
374
9.3.2 Dates
375
9.3.3 Valuation
376
9.3.4 Costing Run Steps
376
9.4 Summary
386
10 Preliminary Cost Estimates
387
10.1 Create Preliminary Cost Estimate
387
10.2 Production Process
390
10.3 Transfer Control
390
10.4 Mass Processing
393
10.5 Summary
394
11 Unit Cost Estimates
395
11.1 Base Planning Object
395
11.1.1 Item
396
11.1.2 Category
397
11.1.3 Resource
398
11.1.4 Plant/Activity
398
11.1.5 Quantity
398
11.1.6 Value – Total
398
11.1.7 Cost Element
399
11.2 Material Cost Estimate without Quantity Structure
399
11.3 Summary
401
Part III: Cost Object Controlling
403
12 Preliminary Costing
405
12.1 Production Order Control
405
12.1.1 Costing Variant for Planned Costs
407
12.1.2 Costing Variant for Actual Costs
408
12.1.3 Costing Sheet
408
12.1.4 Overhead Key
409
12.1.5 Results Analysis Key
409
12.1.6 Variance Key
409
12.1.7 Determine Plan Costs
409
12.2 Display Planned Costs
410
12.3 Summary
412
13 Simultaneous Costing
413
13.1 Goods Movements
413
13.1.1 Debits
413
13.1.2 Credits
417
13.2 Confirmations
420
13.2.1 Secondary Postings
420
13.2.2 Create Production Order
421
13.2.3 Confirm Activities
425
13.2.4 Default Activities
427
13.2.5 Operation Sequence
428
13.3 Report Costs
430
13.4 Summary
431
14 Overhead
433
14.1 Configuration
433
14.2 Overhead Period-End Processing
434
14.3 SAP HANA and Overhead Processing
436
14.4 Summary
436
15 Work in Process
437
15.1 WIP Configuration
438
15.1.1 Define Results Analysis Keys
438
15.1.2 Define Results Analysis Versions
439
15.1.3 Define Valuation Method (Target Costs)
442
15.1.4 Define Valuation Variant for WIP and Scrap
443
15.1.5 Assignment of Valuation Variant for WIP
445
15.1.6 Define Line IDs
446
15.1.7 Define Assignment
446
15.1.8 Define Update
448
15.1.9 Define Posting Rules for Settling WIP
449
15.2 Results Analysis Configuration
451
15.3 WIP Period-End
455
15.3.1 Product Cost by Period
455
15.3.2 Product Cost by Order
459
15.4 SAP HANA and WIP
460
15.5 Summary
461
16 Variance Calculations
463
16.1 Types of Variance Calculation
463
16.1.1 Total Variance
463
16.1.2 Production Variance
464
16.1.3 Planning Variance
464
16.2 Variance Configuration
465
16.2.1 Define Variance Keys
465
16.2.2 Define Default Variance Keys for Plants
466
16.2.3 Define Variance Variants
467
16.2.4 Define Valuation Variant for WIP and Scrap
469
16.2.5 Define Target Cost Versions
469
16.3 Variance Categories
473
16.3.1 Input Variances
473
16.3.2 Output Variances
474
16.4 Variance Period End
475
16.4.1 Product Cost by Period
476
16.4.2 Product Cost by Order
480
16.5 SAP HANA and Variance Calculation
481
16.6 Summary
482
17 Settlement
483
17.1 Settlement Configuration
483
17.1.1 Settlement Profile
483
17.1.2 Allocation Structure
489
17.1.3 Source Structure
495
17.1.4 PA Transfer Structure
497
17.2 Settlement Period-End Process
502
17.2.1 Parameters
503
17.2.2 Processing Options
505
17.3 SAP HANA and Settlement
507
17.4 Summary
508
18 Special Topics
509
18.1 Sales Order Controlling
509
18.1.1 Configuration
510
18.1.2 Period-End Processing
518
18.1.3 SAP HANA and Sales Orders
523
18.2 Subcontracting
524
18.2.1 MRP 2 View
525
18.2.2 Purchase Order
525
18.2.3 Monitoring Stocks Provided to Vendor
527
18.2.4 Goods Receipt of End Product
528
18.3 Material Ledger
528
18.3.1 Multiple Currencies or Valuations
529
18.3.2 Actual Costing
529
18.3.3 Configuration
530
18.3.4 Period-End Processing
537
18.3.5 SAP HANA and the Material Ledger
540
18.4 Delivery Costs
542
18.4.1 Purchased Material Consumption Account
543
18.4.2 Configure Costing Variant
543
18.4.3 Assign Conditions to Origin Groups
544
18.4.4 Assign Conditions to Purchasing Info Records
545
18.4.5 Assign Origin Groups to Cost Components
546
18.5 Templates
547
18.6 Mixed-Cost Estimate
548
18.6.1 Quantity Structure and Costing Version
549
18.6.2 Create Procurement Alternative
550
18.6.3 Define Mixing Ratios
551
18.6.4 Create a Mixed-Cost Estimate
552
18.7 Cost Estimate User Exits
554
18.7.1 Cross-Company Code Costing
555
18.7.2 Production Resource/Tool Costing
556
18.7.3 Bulk Material Costing
556
18.7.4 Material Valuation
556
18.7.5 Costing Reports
557
18.8 Summary
558
Part IV: Information System and Trends
561
19 Information System
563
19.1 Product Cost Planning
564
19.1.1 Analyze Costing Runs
564
19.1.2 List Material Cost Estimates
568
19.1.3 Detailed Reports
569
19.1.4 Object Comparisons
569
19.2 Cost Object Controlling
572
19.2.1 Product Drilldown Reports
574
19.2.2 Summarization Hierarchy Reports
578
19.2.3 Summarization and Drilldown Reports with SAP HANA
585
19.2.4 Detailed Reports
588
19.2.5 Line Item Reports
590
19.2.6 Line Item Reports with SAP HANA
592
19.3 Production Order Reports
595
19.3.1 Order Information System
595
19.3.2 Order Selection
598
19.4 Cost Center Reports
600
19.5 Summary
602
20 Trends in Product Cost Controlling
605
20.1 Enhancement Packages and Business Functions
605
20.1.1 FIN_CO_COGM: Multiple Valuation of Cost of Goods Manufactured
607
20.1.2 LOG_MM_SIT: Cross-Company-Code Stock/Actual Costing
608
20.1.3 LOG_EAM_OLC: Operation Account Assignment
612
20.1.4 FIN_CO_CCMGMT: Cost Center Management
614
20.2 SAP HANA
629
20.2.1 SAP S/4HANA
630
20.2.2 SAP Fiori
635
20.3 Summary
637
Conclusion
639
Book Summary
639
Integrated Planning
639
Product Cost Planning
640
Cost Object Controlling
641
Information System and Trends
641
Looking Ahead
642
SAP ERP
643
SAP HANA
643
Keeping Up
644
Appendices
645
A Additional Resources
647
B Bibliography
651
C Glossary
653
D The Author
675
Index
677