The document discusses product cost controlling and accounting. It covers topics like legal requirements for valuation of raw materials, work in process, and finished goods. It also discusses management requirements like supporting cost reduction and strategic/operational decision making. The document outlines different cost controlling methods like by order, period, or sales order. It provides examples of when each method would be used. It also describes components of cost controlling like cost object controlling, cost planning, actual costing, variance calculation, and period-end closing procedures.
Product costing and material ledger documentation was summarized as follows:
[1] Product costing allows companies to plan, track, and analyze product costs from raw materials procurement through production to the final cost of goods sold. The material ledger provides actual costing functionality to revalue inventory costs.
[2] Key aspects of product costing include establishing standard costs, performing costing runs to calculate costs, and updating material master prices. The costing structure includes activity types, cost elements, and cost centers.
[3] The material ledger allows companies to determine actual costs for materials and revalue inventory using methods like moving average or standard price valuation.
The document discusses product costing and cost estimation in SAP. It describes how standard costs are estimated based on input materials, activities, and overhead costs. It then outlines the tools used for cost estimation like costing variants, cost component splits, and cost estimates with or without quantity structures. Cost estimates are used to calculate the cost of goods manufactured and update standard prices in the material master record.
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The document discusses the features and benefits of implementing SAP's Material Ledger module. Material Ledger allows companies to value inventories in multiple currencies and valuation methods in real-time. It provides a hybrid approach of valuing inventories at standard cost during a period and calculating a periodic moving average price. Material Ledger also enables the amortization of price variances over the life of inventories. Implementing Material Ledger provides enhanced inventory visibility and management.
This document provides information about configuring and activating Material Ledger in SAP. It discusses the objectives of Material Ledger, the differences between Material Ledger in SAP S/4HANA versus SAP ERP, and the steps to activate Material Ledger which include assigning currency types, valuation areas, material update structures, and number ranges. It emphasizes that activating Material Ledger is mandatory in SAP S/4HANA to allow inventory valuation in multiple currencies at actual costs.
The document discusses cost estimation in SAP, including standard cost estimation, tools used like costing variants and cost component splits, and how to perform a cost estimate with or without a quantity structure. It also covers how to update material master prices by running a costing run or price update after completing a cost estimate. The key steps are to 1) create a cost estimate using tools like costing variants, 2) save and display the estimate results, and 3) update material prices by running a price update or costing run to transfer costs to the material master.
Case study material ledger implementation lessons learnedJohannes Le Roux
Cooper Tire implemented SAP Material Ledger as part of their initial SAP implementation in order to gain visibility into actual product costs and variances across production processes. Some key lessons learned included making the final decision to implement Material Ledger early, ensuring quality consultant support, and properly configuring for long-term requirements. Material Ledger provided benefits like impact of price variances and actual inventory costs but also challenges like increased data volumes and complexities. Cooper Tire's next steps include further integrating Material Ledger with SAP Profitability and Cost Management for improved cost and profitability reporting and analysis.
Product costing and material ledger documentation was summarized as follows:
[1] Product costing allows companies to plan, track, and analyze product costs from raw materials procurement through production to the final cost of goods sold. The material ledger provides actual costing functionality to revalue inventory costs.
[2] Key aspects of product costing include establishing standard costs, performing costing runs to calculate costs, and updating material master prices. The costing structure includes activity types, cost elements, and cost centers.
[3] The material ledger allows companies to determine actual costs for materials and revalue inventory using methods like moving average or standard price valuation.
The document discusses product costing and cost estimation in SAP. It describes how standard costs are estimated based on input materials, activities, and overhead costs. It then outlines the tools used for cost estimation like costing variants, cost component splits, and cost estimates with or without quantity structures. Cost estimates are used to calculate the cost of goods manufactured and update standard prices in the material master record.
SAP-CO-PC - Product Cost Cycle:
100% Pass Guarantee Program of Any SAP Certification.100% positive results.
My email id: udaysap@yahoo.com; Skype id: opelley; contact number: 281-660-6449.
The document discusses the features and benefits of implementing SAP's Material Ledger module. Material Ledger allows companies to value inventories in multiple currencies and valuation methods in real-time. It provides a hybrid approach of valuing inventories at standard cost during a period and calculating a periodic moving average price. Material Ledger also enables the amortization of price variances over the life of inventories. Implementing Material Ledger provides enhanced inventory visibility and management.
This document provides information about configuring and activating Material Ledger in SAP. It discusses the objectives of Material Ledger, the differences between Material Ledger in SAP S/4HANA versus SAP ERP, and the steps to activate Material Ledger which include assigning currency types, valuation areas, material update structures, and number ranges. It emphasizes that activating Material Ledger is mandatory in SAP S/4HANA to allow inventory valuation in multiple currencies at actual costs.
The document discusses cost estimation in SAP, including standard cost estimation, tools used like costing variants and cost component splits, and how to perform a cost estimate with or without a quantity structure. It also covers how to update material master prices by running a costing run or price update after completing a cost estimate. The key steps are to 1) create a cost estimate using tools like costing variants, 2) save and display the estimate results, and 3) update material prices by running a price update or costing run to transfer costs to the material master.
Case study material ledger implementation lessons learnedJohannes Le Roux
Cooper Tire implemented SAP Material Ledger as part of their initial SAP implementation in order to gain visibility into actual product costs and variances across production processes. Some key lessons learned included making the final decision to implement Material Ledger early, ensuring quality consultant support, and properly configuring for long-term requirements. Material Ledger provided benefits like impact of price variances and actual inventory costs but also challenges like increased data volumes and complexities. Cooper Tire's next steps include further integrating Material Ledger with SAP Profitability and Cost Management for improved cost and profitability reporting and analysis.
SAP Product costing Calculation With Components - SkillstekSkillstek
SAP Product Cost Calculation is done in the 6 key components of Product Costing, which is part of SAP CO.
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Accounting entries from production to finished stockRavindra Jain
The document discusses accounting entries for various stages of production from raw materials to finished goods. It asks for clarification on entries for routing, overhead allocation, production of semi-finished goods, further processing, and finished goods production. The expert responds that routing and overhead entries are done in CO (costing), not FI (financial accounting). The entries debit cost elements and credit cost centers. Production entries debit inventory accounts and credit goods receipt accounts. Variances are settled through a FI document.
This document provides an overview of product cost planning in SAP. It describes how product cost planning can be used to calculate the cost of goods manufactured and cost of goods sold for products. It also explains how cost estimates can be analyzed using reports that break down costs into components like material costs, production costs, and overhead costs. Configuration in SAP is required to set up cost component structures before costs can be assigned and reported.
This document provides information on setting up and maintaining key components for product costing in SAP, including:
1. Maintaining material masters for raw materials, packaging materials, and finished goods with accounting and costing views.
2. Defining bills of materials which list the components and quantities that make up finished products.
3. Setting activity prices for cost centers that absorb costs into products based on activities like machine time or labor hours.
4. Identifying resources and work centers that define where operations are performed and their available capacities.
Blogs on Document Splitting at www.veritysolutions.com.au
Document Splitting is a very powerful feature delivered by SAP ECC.
Previous to SAP ECC, if new fields were required to General Ledger SAP had to deliver these new fields in Special Purpose Ledger tables. Profit Centre Accounting in R3 was Special Purpose Ledger table 8*, Joint Venture Accounting was ledger 4*. This essentially meant that data had to be copied from General Ledger table GLT0 to special ledger tables so these could be reported upon. However, technical glitches in code and incorrect usage of functionalities caused imbalances between the main ledger GLT0 and the special purpose ledgers.
SAP customers who wanted to expand the functionality of General Ledger to cater to special business requirements (like reporting General Ledger with another fiscal year variant) had to create custom Special Purpose Ledger tables. For example, if a customer wanted to report by two fiscal year variants, they could report one variant using General Ledger and the other variant using Special Purpose Ledger.
All this disparate ledgers reported the same source information in different views. Customers had to execute several month end jobs to ensure synchronisation of data across all these ledgers. Differences in balances and information between ledgers led to delays in month end close and reporting.
With SAP ECC new GL, SAP Customers can add new fields (which SAP calls “scenarios”) into General Ledger. This allows customers to perform, for example, Profit Centre Accounting and Reporting within General Ledger.
With SAP ECC new GL, SAP Customers can add new ledgers (which SAP calls “parallel accounting”) into General Ledger. This allows customers to report, for example, the same General Ledger data in multiple fiscal year variants.
This replication of data happens in real-time. SAP customers no longer need to execute month end jobs to synchronise data between different ledgers.
This document describes how to automate the standard cost estimate process (CK40N) in SAP. It involves setting up a costing run with parameters for each step - selection, structure explosion, costing, analysis, marking, and release. These steps are configured to run in the background by activating background processing for each. Finally, the background jobs are scheduled and monitored to completion to automate the full CK40N process.
Account-based COPA is also called a hybrid of general ledger and costing-based COPA. In Account based COPA, you can get a report that is reconciled and consistent with financial accounting. Sales, markeitng and product management details can be obtained from it.
The document provides instructions for using transaction code CKM3 in SAP to perform a material price analysis. This transaction allows users to analyze material movements and costs by entering a material, plant, and period. It then displays the valuated transactions and price/exchange rate differences for that material. Users can view details of specific documents, including purchase orders and cost center consumption documents, and drill down to associated source documents. The material ledger must be activated to use this transaction for analyzing actual costs versus standard costs.
Automatic picking configuration in delivery in sap sdsarath chandran
Automatic picking in SAP SD can be configured by defining shipping points using transaction VP01SHP to maintain settings. Delivery documents are then created and saved without entering picking quantities, which will be automatically generated using output condition technique. The configuration involves using transactions V/38, OVLT to change the time value, and VP01SHP to maintain shipping points so that deliveries can be saved without errors when picking quantities are automatically determined.
Pipeline materials such as oil, gas, or electricity are received directly through pipelines and cables rather than through traditional purchase orders and stock. These materials use a special stock type of "P" to record consumption without a purchase order or stock. All rate and tax information for pipeline materials is stored in info records under the category "Pipeline". Consumption is recorded through MIGO transactions and settlement is done through MRKO transactions similar to consignment materials.
Intra company transfer pricing using sap material ledgerRajesh Shanbhag
Verity Cement uses SAP Material Ledger to implement intra-company transfer pricing between its manufacturing plant in Brisbane, plant in Sydney, and distribution center in Melbourne. Previously, transfers were done at cost without reflecting individual profitability. The new system uses negotiated transfer prices based on market costs for intermediate goods and a margin over standard cost for finished goods. This allows each subunit to measure independent profitability and improve competitiveness through the profit center view in SAP.
This document provides instructions for performing a mass costing run in SAP. It describes running a costing for finished and semi-finished products valued at standard price. The process involves setting selection parameters to choose materials by type and plant, executing a BOM explosion, performing cost estimation, analyzing results, and marking and releasing standard prices. The full procedure takes the user through 63 steps to complete a costing run for multiple materials and plants at once.
This document provides instructions for configuring stock transport orders in SAP, which allow for the physical transfer of goods between two plants or company codes. It outlines the key configuration steps, which include defining a stock transport order document type, assigning shipping data and checking rules to plants, and associating delivery types and one-step procedures with document types and plant combinations. The configurations allow goods to be transferred between plants within a company code or across company codes with delivery and optional billing.
The document provides guidance on creating, changing, displaying, and using internal orders in IRIS. Key points include:
- Internal orders allow subsets of costs and revenues to be tracked separately within a cost center or WBS element.
- They are created at the major organizational unit level using transaction KO01. Fields include order type, number, short text, and business area.
- Most expenditure and revenue documents allow internal order assignment. Exceptions are payroll, asset purchases, which use redistribution.
- Planning is available to plan amounts over multiple years, but budgeting is not. Internal order groups can be created for editing and reporting.
The document discusses the differences between standard price control and moving average price control in SAP. Standard price is a fixed price set in the material master record, while moving average price automatically adjusts based on the total value and quantity of stock. Variances from standard price are posted to price difference accounts, while variances from the moving average price update the price and stock value. The document recommends using standard price for semi-finished and finished goods and moving average price for raw materials.
Case study in implementing sap material ledgerotchmarz
Cooper Tire implemented SAP Material Ledger as part of their initial SAP implementation in order to gain visibility into actual material costs by product, production efficiencies by product, standard and actual inventory values by product, and product level profitability reporting without intercompany markups. Implementing Material Ledger upfront provided a clean system with no open orders and allowed Cooper Tire to have consistent valuation strategies across companies as well as better product cost visibility and analysis on a global level.
This document provides an overview of the various master data required for product costing in SAP. It discusses maintaining material masters for raw materials, finished goods, and packaging materials. This includes views for accounting, costing, MRP, and procurement. It also covers bill of materials, activity prices for cost centers, resources/work centers, master recipes/routings, production versions, and overhead rates. Maintaining consistent and accurate master data across these areas is important for product costing in SAP.
AUC is Asset under construction where some assets are in construction phase and cost needs to
capture through internal order for the time being. Once asset is fully completed then cost would
be transferred to another cost object (E.g. Cost center, Order etc...) and settle with final asset.
E.g. XYZ Company constructing building for their office. While construction many expenses are
attached to it. Till the time it is created we cannot charge it in building account hence we need to
create AUC account where cost will be stored.
Assets under construction (AUC) are a special form of tangible assets. They are usually displayed
as a separate balance sheet item and therefore require a separate account determination and their
own asset classes. During the construction phase of an asset, all actual postings are assigned to the
AUC. Once the asset is completed, a transfer is made to the final fixed asset
SAP Accounts Reveivable Functions | http://sapdocs.infosapdocs. info
This document provides an overview of key functions in the accounts receivable module in SAP, including:
1) Editing options and defaults that can be set for open item processing and credit management.
2) Customer line item management and open item management, including displaying line items and balances.
3) Processing open items by clearing customers, posting with clearing, or posting incoming payments manually.
4) Handling bank returned payments and resetting cleared items.
5) Posting transactions without clearing, for transfers or other receivables.
This document describes a product costing software that provides several key features for automating and improving the product costing process. The software allows users to perform simulations on product costs, analyze gaps between customer and actual bills of materials, manage different bill of material versions, and generate reports. It is intended to help eliminate issues with manual and Excel-based costing processes for both automotive OEMs and tier 1 suppliers. The software offers cost savings opportunities through improved visibility and accuracy of product costing information.
1. Khalid Aziz teaches financial accounting and cost accounting courses for various qualifications including ICMAP stages 1-4, ICAP modules B and D, B.Com, BBA, MBA, and PIPFA.
2. He provides crash courses and fresh classes in financial accounting and cost accounting for individuals and groups.
3. Contact information is provided for Khalid Aziz located in Karachi, Pakistan.
SAP Product costing Calculation With Components - SkillstekSkillstek
SAP Product Cost Calculation is done in the 6 key components of Product Costing, which is part of SAP CO.
Read it at Skillstek's Blog:- https://skillstek.com/product-costing-in-sap/
For more informative content, visit:-
https://skillstek.com/blog
Contact Details:-
Website:- https://skillstek.com
Phone:- +91-9556432150
Email:- info@skillstek.com
Social Accounts:-
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Accounting entries from production to finished stockRavindra Jain
The document discusses accounting entries for various stages of production from raw materials to finished goods. It asks for clarification on entries for routing, overhead allocation, production of semi-finished goods, further processing, and finished goods production. The expert responds that routing and overhead entries are done in CO (costing), not FI (financial accounting). The entries debit cost elements and credit cost centers. Production entries debit inventory accounts and credit goods receipt accounts. Variances are settled through a FI document.
This document provides an overview of product cost planning in SAP. It describes how product cost planning can be used to calculate the cost of goods manufactured and cost of goods sold for products. It also explains how cost estimates can be analyzed using reports that break down costs into components like material costs, production costs, and overhead costs. Configuration in SAP is required to set up cost component structures before costs can be assigned and reported.
This document provides information on setting up and maintaining key components for product costing in SAP, including:
1. Maintaining material masters for raw materials, packaging materials, and finished goods with accounting and costing views.
2. Defining bills of materials which list the components and quantities that make up finished products.
3. Setting activity prices for cost centers that absorb costs into products based on activities like machine time or labor hours.
4. Identifying resources and work centers that define where operations are performed and their available capacities.
Blogs on Document Splitting at www.veritysolutions.com.au
Document Splitting is a very powerful feature delivered by SAP ECC.
Previous to SAP ECC, if new fields were required to General Ledger SAP had to deliver these new fields in Special Purpose Ledger tables. Profit Centre Accounting in R3 was Special Purpose Ledger table 8*, Joint Venture Accounting was ledger 4*. This essentially meant that data had to be copied from General Ledger table GLT0 to special ledger tables so these could be reported upon. However, technical glitches in code and incorrect usage of functionalities caused imbalances between the main ledger GLT0 and the special purpose ledgers.
SAP customers who wanted to expand the functionality of General Ledger to cater to special business requirements (like reporting General Ledger with another fiscal year variant) had to create custom Special Purpose Ledger tables. For example, if a customer wanted to report by two fiscal year variants, they could report one variant using General Ledger and the other variant using Special Purpose Ledger.
All this disparate ledgers reported the same source information in different views. Customers had to execute several month end jobs to ensure synchronisation of data across all these ledgers. Differences in balances and information between ledgers led to delays in month end close and reporting.
With SAP ECC new GL, SAP Customers can add new fields (which SAP calls “scenarios”) into General Ledger. This allows customers to perform, for example, Profit Centre Accounting and Reporting within General Ledger.
With SAP ECC new GL, SAP Customers can add new ledgers (which SAP calls “parallel accounting”) into General Ledger. This allows customers to report, for example, the same General Ledger data in multiple fiscal year variants.
This replication of data happens in real-time. SAP customers no longer need to execute month end jobs to synchronise data between different ledgers.
This document describes how to automate the standard cost estimate process (CK40N) in SAP. It involves setting up a costing run with parameters for each step - selection, structure explosion, costing, analysis, marking, and release. These steps are configured to run in the background by activating background processing for each. Finally, the background jobs are scheduled and monitored to completion to automate the full CK40N process.
Account-based COPA is also called a hybrid of general ledger and costing-based COPA. In Account based COPA, you can get a report that is reconciled and consistent with financial accounting. Sales, markeitng and product management details can be obtained from it.
The document provides instructions for using transaction code CKM3 in SAP to perform a material price analysis. This transaction allows users to analyze material movements and costs by entering a material, plant, and period. It then displays the valuated transactions and price/exchange rate differences for that material. Users can view details of specific documents, including purchase orders and cost center consumption documents, and drill down to associated source documents. The material ledger must be activated to use this transaction for analyzing actual costs versus standard costs.
Automatic picking configuration in delivery in sap sdsarath chandran
Automatic picking in SAP SD can be configured by defining shipping points using transaction VP01SHP to maintain settings. Delivery documents are then created and saved without entering picking quantities, which will be automatically generated using output condition technique. The configuration involves using transactions V/38, OVLT to change the time value, and VP01SHP to maintain shipping points so that deliveries can be saved without errors when picking quantities are automatically determined.
Pipeline materials such as oil, gas, or electricity are received directly through pipelines and cables rather than through traditional purchase orders and stock. These materials use a special stock type of "P" to record consumption without a purchase order or stock. All rate and tax information for pipeline materials is stored in info records under the category "Pipeline". Consumption is recorded through MIGO transactions and settlement is done through MRKO transactions similar to consignment materials.
Intra company transfer pricing using sap material ledgerRajesh Shanbhag
Verity Cement uses SAP Material Ledger to implement intra-company transfer pricing between its manufacturing plant in Brisbane, plant in Sydney, and distribution center in Melbourne. Previously, transfers were done at cost without reflecting individual profitability. The new system uses negotiated transfer prices based on market costs for intermediate goods and a margin over standard cost for finished goods. This allows each subunit to measure independent profitability and improve competitiveness through the profit center view in SAP.
This document provides instructions for performing a mass costing run in SAP. It describes running a costing for finished and semi-finished products valued at standard price. The process involves setting selection parameters to choose materials by type and plant, executing a BOM explosion, performing cost estimation, analyzing results, and marking and releasing standard prices. The full procedure takes the user through 63 steps to complete a costing run for multiple materials and plants at once.
This document provides instructions for configuring stock transport orders in SAP, which allow for the physical transfer of goods between two plants or company codes. It outlines the key configuration steps, which include defining a stock transport order document type, assigning shipping data and checking rules to plants, and associating delivery types and one-step procedures with document types and plant combinations. The configurations allow goods to be transferred between plants within a company code or across company codes with delivery and optional billing.
The document provides guidance on creating, changing, displaying, and using internal orders in IRIS. Key points include:
- Internal orders allow subsets of costs and revenues to be tracked separately within a cost center or WBS element.
- They are created at the major organizational unit level using transaction KO01. Fields include order type, number, short text, and business area.
- Most expenditure and revenue documents allow internal order assignment. Exceptions are payroll, asset purchases, which use redistribution.
- Planning is available to plan amounts over multiple years, but budgeting is not. Internal order groups can be created for editing and reporting.
The document discusses the differences between standard price control and moving average price control in SAP. Standard price is a fixed price set in the material master record, while moving average price automatically adjusts based on the total value and quantity of stock. Variances from standard price are posted to price difference accounts, while variances from the moving average price update the price and stock value. The document recommends using standard price for semi-finished and finished goods and moving average price for raw materials.
Case study in implementing sap material ledgerotchmarz
Cooper Tire implemented SAP Material Ledger as part of their initial SAP implementation in order to gain visibility into actual material costs by product, production efficiencies by product, standard and actual inventory values by product, and product level profitability reporting without intercompany markups. Implementing Material Ledger upfront provided a clean system with no open orders and allowed Cooper Tire to have consistent valuation strategies across companies as well as better product cost visibility and analysis on a global level.
This document provides an overview of the various master data required for product costing in SAP. It discusses maintaining material masters for raw materials, finished goods, and packaging materials. This includes views for accounting, costing, MRP, and procurement. It also covers bill of materials, activity prices for cost centers, resources/work centers, master recipes/routings, production versions, and overhead rates. Maintaining consistent and accurate master data across these areas is important for product costing in SAP.
AUC is Asset under construction where some assets are in construction phase and cost needs to
capture through internal order for the time being. Once asset is fully completed then cost would
be transferred to another cost object (E.g. Cost center, Order etc...) and settle with final asset.
E.g. XYZ Company constructing building for their office. While construction many expenses are
attached to it. Till the time it is created we cannot charge it in building account hence we need to
create AUC account where cost will be stored.
Assets under construction (AUC) are a special form of tangible assets. They are usually displayed
as a separate balance sheet item and therefore require a separate account determination and their
own asset classes. During the construction phase of an asset, all actual postings are assigned to the
AUC. Once the asset is completed, a transfer is made to the final fixed asset
SAP Accounts Reveivable Functions | http://sapdocs.infosapdocs. info
This document provides an overview of key functions in the accounts receivable module in SAP, including:
1) Editing options and defaults that can be set for open item processing and credit management.
2) Customer line item management and open item management, including displaying line items and balances.
3) Processing open items by clearing customers, posting with clearing, or posting incoming payments manually.
4) Handling bank returned payments and resetting cleared items.
5) Posting transactions without clearing, for transfers or other receivables.
This document describes a product costing software that provides several key features for automating and improving the product costing process. The software allows users to perform simulations on product costs, analyze gaps between customer and actual bills of materials, manage different bill of material versions, and generate reports. It is intended to help eliminate issues with manual and Excel-based costing processes for both automotive OEMs and tier 1 suppliers. The software offers cost savings opportunities through improved visibility and accuracy of product costing information.
1. Khalid Aziz teaches financial accounting and cost accounting courses for various qualifications including ICMAP stages 1-4, ICAP modules B and D, B.Com, BBA, MBA, and PIPFA.
2. He provides crash courses and fresh classes in financial accounting and cost accounting for individuals and groups.
3. Contact information is provided for Khalid Aziz located in Karachi, Pakistan.
This document defines key terms related to product costing and pricing. It provides a 6-step process for computing the price per unit of a product: 1) determine total production expenses, 2) determine operational expenses, 3) combine all expenses, 4) add a 25% markup, 5) divide total costs by volume of production to get price per unit, and 6) compute prices for different units (e.g. per pack, dozen, or box) based on the per unit price and typical quantities included in those units. It also outlines a similar process for pricing merchandise.
In SAP COPA, you can use summarisation level as one of the key measure to improve processing time of reporting, planning and assessments. This will also lead to better system performance.
Transaction processing within COPA, initially, reads data from summarisation tables and then from segment tables and then from line item tables. By building summarisation levels (in COPA) tailored for specific transactional processes that involve large volumes of data or large processing times, you can significantly reduce those processing times and improve the performance of the system.
Blogs on SAP COPA summarisation:
#1 Summarisation levels in SAP COPA – an overview (2012/05/09)
#2 Summarisation levels in SAP COPA – define your summarisation level (2012/05/16)
#3 Summarisation levels in SAP COPA – build your summarisation level (2012/05/23)
#4 Summarisation levels in SAP COPA – Tips to optimise your summarisation level (2012/05/30)
This document provides instructions for configuring product costing in SAP. It discusses setting up overhead cost elements, calculation bases, percentage overhead rates, credits, and other basic settings needed for material cost planning. The configuration shown is for a company called A Ltd that requires setting up material and production overheads of 5% and 4% respectively, calculated based on materials and wages, and credited to the appropriate cost centers.
This document provides instructions for configuring profitability analysis in SAP. It discusses defining characteristics and value fields, which are the key dimensions and values used to analyze profitability. Characteristics can be predefined, fixed, copied from reference tables, or custom defined. Instructions are provided for viewing existing characteristics, creating new user-defined characteristics like "Bill to party" and "Business field", and activating the new characteristics for use. The document outlines the overall profitability analysis configuration process and provides a guide to setting up the necessary master data and structures.
The document defines variances as differences between standard and actual costs. It discusses computing variances for material costs, including material cost, price, usage, mix, and yield variances. It also discusses labor cost and rate variances. Variances are classified and examples are provided to demonstrate how to calculate different types of variances based on standard and actual data. The key information is on defining and calculating different types of variances to identify reasons for deviations between actual and standard performance.
Products which have similar estrcutures and need a logic to assemble , sap use variant configuration to describe in a inteligent code the possibility to change COMPONENTS of the product, without creating another bill of material
This document discusses product costing and different costing approaches. It explains that traditional costing can distort costs by improperly assigning overhead costs based on units produced rather than activities. The document then describes activity-based costing, noting that it assigns overhead costs to products based on their consumption of different activities, providing more accurate cost data especially for companies with many products.
Saint-Gobain Abrasivos optimized the performance of their SAP R/3 environment which reduced month-end closing times from 65 hours and 45 minutes to 32 hours and 49 minutes. Several transactions and programs saw performance improvements of 50-100% after addressing expensive statements, terminated processes, and hardware resource exhaustion. The optimization provided benefits like decreased response times, increased hardware capacity, and improved business processes.
Con2012 jordan analyze_your_production_costsaadamserpcorp
John Jordan will present guidance on how to “Analyze your production costs and variances with SAP® standard reports”. John created this session to help organizations better leverage one of the most useful features of standard reporting – drilldown functionality. Learn how from high-level summarized reports, you can drill down through detailed and line item reports to source documents. This functionality is one of the key tools at your disposal during variance analysis. This presentation will be presented at the Controlling 2012 Conference September 24-25, 2012 in San Diego, CA.
This document discusses the need for product costing solutions and Vedant Resources and Infrastructure Development's should costing services. It notes that product costs account for 70% of revenue and are key to profit but detailed cost breakdowns are unknown in the concept stage. The challenges include engineers being unfamiliar with manufacturing processes and limited cost data during development. Vedant provides should costing, tear down analysis, local sourcing support, and cost estimation to help understand cost drivers, optimize design for cost, and aid in supplier negotiations. Their approaches include bottom-up, parametric, and rough order of magnitude cost modeling at different levels of detail and speed.
This document discusses different product costing systems and which one is most appropriate given a company's strategy and environment. It outlines elements to consider like costing objectives, requirements, and system components. Based on the analysis, it recommends an activity-based costing system that tracks full and variable costs for business control, allocates joint costs based on sales value at split off point, and uses process costing with a weighted average and FIFO cost flow assumption.
The document discusses MRP views required for production planning data updates in SAP. It provides details on various fields in MRP views like base unit of measure, alternative units of measure, purchasing group, ABC indicator, MRP type, reorder point, safety stock, forecast-based planning, and lot size. An example is also given to illustrate how the system calculates dynamic safety stock and forecast values for MRP type VV. The document clarifies that the system will initially calculate forecast values based on the given historical consumption data, and then take the consumption history from the system for subsequent forecasts.
This document discusses valuation and split valuation in SAP MM. It defines valuation as determining the current worth of a material in the system. Split valuation allows managing a material as separate partial stocks that can each be valued differently in the same valuation area (company or plant). Reasons for split valuation include different origins, grades, or procurement sources for a material. The document provides an example of setting up split valuation to value in-house and externally procured materials of the same item differently. It also discusses valuation areas, classes, and how to configure and use split valuation in transactions.
A firm purchased 100 units of stock on January 1, 2015. The product cost includes the supplier's price of $7 per unit, cartage inwards of $1 per unit, and a share of annual customs duty and delivery van depreciation. This results in a total product cost of $8 per unit. The financial statements show the firm selling the 100 units for $16 each, generating a gross profit of $600 and net profit of $100 after deducting other expenses.
El documento presenta el plan de estudios de 10 semestres de la carrera de Administración de Empresas. En los primeros 7 semestres los estudiantes toman asignaturas básicas de administración, economía, contabilidad, estadística, informática y matemáticas. En los semestres 8o y 9o se enfocan en especializaciones como finanzas, sistemas de información y planificación estratégica. El 10o semestre incluye prácticas profesionales y seminarios para la elaboración del trabajo de gra
Avoid the mistakes that break next year’s project budget reporting! Walk through the steps required to close the year with SAP’s Project Systems and Investment Management.
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cost accounting chapter 6, fundamentals of product and service designBeaDelaPenia1
This document discusses job-order costing systems used by manufacturing firms that produce unique products in small batches. It explains the key aspects of setting up a job-order costing system including cost accumulation, measurement, and assignment. Costs like direct materials, direct labor, and applied overhead are traced to individual jobs and accumulated on job cost sheets. The chapter compares using a single overhead rate versus multiple rates and how they impact cost assignment.
The document discusses cost accounting concepts and classifications. It defines different types of costs such as product costs, period costs, expenses, direct materials, direct labor, manufacturing overhead. It also discusses how these costs are classified on financial statements and how they flow through the manufacturing process. Schedules for calculating cost of goods manufactured and sold are presented with examples.
Standard cost estimates are created once a year or per month for planned and production orders. Production costs are received when finished stocks are received, and month-end closing processes include posting material costs, debiting secondary costs, and crediting production output. Variances are also calculated during month-end closing processes. Product costing in SAP includes costing variants to determine bills of materials, routings, and default dates for costing. It also includes costing sheets to determine updated material prices and valuation controls for materials, activities, and overheads.
This document provides information about unit costing and cost sheets. It defines key costing terms like unit cost, prime cost, factory cost, office cost, selling and distribution cost, and total cost. It explains the objectives and components of a cost sheet, including a sample proforma cost sheet. Examples are provided to demonstrate how to calculate costs from raw material consumption, work in progress, finished goods, and to prepare a full cost sheet. The treatment of scrap and various cost control techniques are also summarized.
The document defines and discusses key cost accounting terms and concepts. It describes how costs flow through a manufacturing company, from raw materials to work in process to finished goods. It also covers cost accumulation procedures like job order costing and process costing, and how costs move from the balance sheet to the income statement. Cost classification categories like direct vs indirect, variable vs fixed, and product vs period costs are also summarized.
This document discusses different costing methods used to determine the costs of jobs, batches, and services. It explains that job costing is used for customer-specific orders, batch costing for identical units produced in batches, and service costing for intangible services. The key steps in job costing include obtaining a customer order, estimating costs, setting a selling price, producing the job, and determining profit or loss. The document also provides examples and outlines the process for calculating costs and profits under different costing methods.
The document discusses cost accounting concepts and how they can be applied to a converting operation. It addresses how to classify and quantify different types of costs, including direct and indirect costs, variable and fixed costs, and the five "Ms" of manufacturing that influence costs. The document also provides examples of how to calculate material waste for a converting job and how waste amounts can vary based on job size.
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This document discusses accounting for inventory and cost of goods sold. It defines key inventory accounts like raw materials, work in process, and finished goods. It also presents an example cost of goods sold statement and calculations. Finally, it covers inventory valuation methods like FIFO, LIFO, and weighted average and how they can impact reported profits.
This document discusses standard costing and variance analysis. It explains that standard costs are budgeted costs for manufacturing a unit or providing a service. Standards are set for material, labor, and overhead based on specifications, time studies, and expected activity levels. Variances measure differences between actual and standard costs and can be analyzed to control costs and evaluate performance. Variance analysis compares actual inputs/costs to standard amounts allowed for the output achieved. It also notes trends toward combining labor and overhead into conversion costs and calculating mix and yield variances.
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This document discusses basic cost management concepts and accounting for mass customization operations. It defines key cost terms like product costs, period costs and expenses. It also describes how costs are classified on financial statements and provides examples of manufacturing costs like direct material, direct labor and manufacturing overhead. The document shows schedules for calculating cost of goods manufactured and sold. It includes an example income statement for a manufacturer to illustrate how costs flow through the financial statements.
- Process costing is used for products that are similar and produced continuously, while job-order costing is used for unique jobs.
- Process costing accumulates costs by department rather than individual jobs. Costs flow through manufacturing accounts like Work in Process and are ultimately transferred to Finished Goods.
- Equivalent units of production considers partially completed units by calculating a percentage of completion and combining it with fully completed units to determine total production for the period.
This document provides information about process costing. It defines process costing as a method used to determine the cost of similar products that are continuously produced and flow through a production process. Costs are accumulated by production departments and assigned to products as an average cost per equivalent unit. The document includes sections on production reports, equivalent units of production, weighted average costing, and cost flows between departments, work in process, finished goods, and cost of goods sold.
Job-order costing is used for unique products or services built to customer specifications. Costs are accumulated by individual job on a job order cost sheet. This allows the profitability of each job to be determined. Important documents include material requisitions, job order cost sheets, and employee timecards. Manufacturing overhead includes indirect costs like depreciation, utilities, and supervision. Overhead is allocated to jobs using a predetermined overhead rate based on an allocation base like direct labor hours.
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This chapter discusses using activity-based cost management to improve decision making. It explains that activity-based costing focuses on allocating overhead costs to products based on activities, while activity-based management focuses on managing activities to reduce costs. The chapter also covers how to use a cost hierarchy to manage different types of costs. It describes how the actions of customers and suppliers can affect a firm's costs and how to use activity-based costing to assess customer and supplier costs. Finally, it discusses managing capacity costs, the costs of quality, and the costs of preventing defects versus the costs of external failures.
- Traditional costing systems allocate overhead based on a single rate like direct labor hours, which can result in inaccurate product costs.
- Activity-based costing (ABC) assigns costs to products based on their use of activities like machine setups, quality inspections, etc. rather than a single rate.
- The example of Bilson Company shows that ABC results in more accurate product costs for Product A and B compared to traditional costing, with A's costs increasing and B's decreasing. This better informs management decisions.
Process costing is used to assign costs to units produced in continuous production and calculates equivalent units of production to account for incomplete units, while job order costing tracks costs for individual jobs or orders; process costing uses weighted average or FIFO methods to calculate equivalent units, with the difference being whether beginning inventory is combined or separated from current production; a company may use a hybrid costing system to apply aspects of both job order and process costing to different product lines or processes within the company.
This document contains summaries of seminar notes on cost concepts and cost relationships for a manufacturing company. It discusses different types of costs like direct materials, direct labor, manufacturing overhead and their relationships. It also shows income statements and treatment of beginning and ending work-in-process and finished goods inventory. Concepts around fixed, variable and mixed costs are explained along with methods to separate mixed costs. An example is given to illustrate treatment of mixed utility costs. Finally, conventional product costing method and use of predetermined overhead rates is summarized.
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This document provides an overview of IAS 2 on inventory. It discusses the objective and scope of IAS 2, which is to prescribe the accounting treatment for inventory. Key areas covered include measurement of inventory at the lower of cost or net realizable value, techniques for determining cost, and required disclosures. Measurement of inventory requires identifying applicable costs and allocating fixed and variable production overheads. Inventory is recognized as an expense when the related revenue is recognized.
1. The document discusses the differences and similarities between job-order costing and process costing. Process costing accumulates costs by department and computes unit costs by department, while job-order costing accumulates costs by individual jobs and computes unit costs by job.
2. It provides steps for calculating equivalent units of production and costs per equivalent unit in process costing. Equivalent units consider partial units by multiplying the quantity by the percentage complete. Costs per equivalent unit are calculated by dividing total costs by equivalent units.
3. Costs are applied to ending work in process inventory and units transferred out based on equivalent units and costs per equivalent unit for each department. Cost reconciliation ensures total costs are properly accounted
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Product Cost Controlling -
Benefits
Legal Requirements
l Valuation of:
n Raw Materials
n Semi finished Goods
n Finished Goods
l Work-in-Process
l Reserves for Losses
Management Requirements
l Support cost reduction
concepts
l Strategic Decision Support
n which products
n where or how to produce
l Operating Decision Support
n pricing of products
n effectiveness of manufacturing
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What can Cost Object
Controlling do for me?
• What actual costs did we incur in our area
in the current period?
• What costs were we expecting based on
the quantities manufactured?
• Are some product groups performing
significantly better than others?
• What is causing these variances?
• What are the scrap costs of our new line?
• Did continuous improvements show cost
effects?
4. Product Controlling by Order
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When to Use?
• Very flexible production
environment
• High set-up costs
• Full cost tracking needed
• Controlling by individual
production lots needed
• Example: Order related
production
Work center 2
Work center 3
Lot
Lot
Lot
Work center 1
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Product Controlling by Period
When to Use?
• High volume production
• Stable and continuous
production
• No individual lot oriented
controlling needed
• Collecting costs on product
cost collectors
• Example: Repetitive
production
Line
am-100
am-120
am-200
am-line1
am-110 am-210 am-220
6. Product Cost by Sales Order
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When to Use?
• Cost and revenues collected by sales
order irrespective of manufacturing
scenario
• Collecting special sales costs on
sales order
• Tracking Funds committed
• Calculating Work in process and
Reserves with results Analysis
• Example: Controlling complex Make-to-
Order Production
Sales Order M
7. Product Cost Planning
Quantity Structure:
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Product Cost Controlling -
Components
Cost Object Controlling
Preliminary Costing,
Simultaneous Costing
Planned
costs,
Actual
costs
Work in process
Scrap
Variances
Settlement
PP Master Data
BOM Routtiing
Order
Material $
Labor $
Overhead $
Process $
Total ...
Value Structure
Prices for Materials
Prices for Activities
Prices for Processes
Overhead
Cost estimate:
Standard costs
Final Costing
Period-End Closing
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Product Cost Planning
PC- Planning stage
Quantity Structure
Value Structure
Plan Overhead rates:
Energy = Rs.10 / hr
Running = Rs.80 / hr
Routing
BOM +
Men Cost = Rs. 20 per kg
Standard BOM
to give standard
material cost
Standard Routing
to give standard
overhead consumption
quantity
Standard Overhead rates
Standard Material
consumption
cost
Standard
Overhead costs
Standard cost of Manufactured goods includes the planned cost of Raw Material
and Planned cost of Overheads
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Cost - Object Controlling
PC - Actual stage
Overhead expenses
Cost centers
Production Operation
Financial
Accounting
Activities
Cost Sheet
Overhead costs
posted to budget
cost centers
Overhead costs re-allocated
in between
cost centers
Overhead costs
allocated from Cost
Centers to Production
Operations using two
methods
Standard cost of FG
Overhead costs
allocated to Finished
Goods at standard
overhead rates
Variances
Overhead variance are
accounted along with
Finished Goods Production variance
10. Production Order: Process Chain
Period end closing
Partial goods receipt
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Order archived / deleted Production Order Create
Schedule
Availability check
Settlement
Calculate costs
Variance calculation
Final goods receipt
WIP calculation
Revaluation
Material issue
Release of order
Shop paper printing
Overhead/Process cost
allocation
Production
Order
Simultaneous costing
Order Execution
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Allocation of Overhead Costs
Overhead
surcharges
Direct activity
allocation
Activity type allocation Process allocation
Cost
allocation
Activity
quantity
X
Price
Process
quantity
x
Price
Cost Center
Cost Center
Activities
Cost Driver
Cost Center
Activities
Production
Order
Production
Order
Production
Order
12. Revaluation of Activities With
Cost Center
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Actual Prices
Production
Cost
Collector
Production
Cost
Object
Actual Costs
Revaluation of
posted activities
Actual
Activity
Prices
Costt Ellementt
• periodic
• average
• accumulated
Price
Difference
x
activity
quantity
=
cost
difference
Process
Order
Order
14. Period-End Closing: Work in
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Process
Work in process is calculated for
each order and settled to Financial
Accounting and Profit Center
Accounting
PrrCttrr 1
BY COMPANY BY PROFIT CENTER
Production Order
CO-PC
Period Accounting
Revenues
- Sales deductions
- Total costs
+/- Stock changes
= Profit for period
EC-PCA
FI
Actual
Material 800
Production 1,200
External 400
Stock change – 1,000
Order balance 1,400
15. Material: P-100
Material
Production
Overhead
Plant activity
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WIP Calculation Using
Actual Costs
WIP
CCOO--
PC
Actual Costs
800
1,200
400
2,400
1,000
1,400
Settlement using
posting rules
FFII
EECC--
PCA
-
1,400
Material Withdrawals 800
Confirmations 1200
Overhead 400
Delivery -1000
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Posting of Work in Process
Work in Process 1,400
Apportionment for WIP
Material 800
Production 1,200
Overhead 400
To be capitalized 1,120
Not to be capitalized 280
FINANCIAL ACCOUNTING
WIP Stock change
Reserve Expense
Profit Center ACCOUNTING
Division
Product group
Product
Postings
via
Settlement
Production Order
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•Region
•Distribution
channel
17
Variances are calculated for each
order and settled
• with variance category to Profitability
Analysis
• as well as one amount to Financial
Accounting
•Product
group
BY COMPANY BY PROFIT. SEGMENT
FI
CO-PA
Material: P-100
800
1,200
400
2,400
-2,000
400
Material
Production
Overhead
Goods receipt
Variances/scrap
Actual Costs
Cost of Sales Accounting
Revenues
- Sales deductions
- Cost of goods manufactured as
1st and 2nd contribution margin)
- Variances
= Profit for period
CO-PC
18. Input Price
Resource-usage
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Variance Analysis
20
50
100
Input
Quantity
Remaining
Input
overhead 25%
150,- (actual )
instead of
100,- (target)
Variances between the
planned prices and the actual
prices of the resources
Variances between the
planned input quantities and
the actual input quantities
of the resources
variances:
output side
Variance between the target
credit (standard price) and the
actual credit
(e.g., moving average price)
v
S
Lot size
Remaining
Output
Variances between planned
costs and actual costs
(independent of lot size) as
calculated in the delivery
Variances that cannot be
assigned to any other variance
category, such as
rounding differences
set up
Outp .price
Variances caused by a
different resource being
used than was planned
Variances that cannot be
assigned to any other
variance category, such
as overhead surcharges
Rounding
differences
variances:
input side
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Period-End Closing:
Settlement
Material: T-F100
Quantity produced: 10 pcs.
CCOO--
PC
Actual Costs
Actual Costs 2,400,-
SSttoocckk CChhaannggee --22,,000000,,--
VVaarriiaanncceess 440000,,--
CO-PC
Production Order
PERIOD ACCOUNTING
Revenues
– Sales deductions
– Total costs incl. Variances
+/- Stock - WIP Changes
= PPrrooffiitt iinn ppeerriioodd
BY COMPANY
PrrCttrr 11
BY PROFIT
CENTER FI
EC-PCA
COST-OF-SALES ACCOUNTING
Revenues
– Sales deductions
– Cost of goods manufactured
(1st and 2nd contribution
margin)
– Variances
= Proffiitt iin periiod
BY COMPANY
BY PROFIT.
SEGMENT
CO-PA
SETTLEMENT
FI
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Quantity produced: 10
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Settling the Order to the
Material
Quantity in stock = 10
FINANCIAL ACCOUNTING
FINANCIAL ACCOUNTING
R
Actual Costs
S Standard price control
V
Moving average
price control
Stock Price difference
2,000 400
Plant activity
2,400
Warehouse
stock?
Quantity in stock = 1
MM
FI
FINANCIAL ACCOUNTING
Stock Price difference
2,400
Plant activity
2,400 FI
CO-PPCC
Actual Costs 2,400,-
Stock Change -2,000,-
Variances 400,-
CO-PC
Production Order
Stock Price difference
2,040 360
Plant activity
2,400 FI
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PA Transfer Structure
R
PA Transfer
Assignment
Variiance
Cattegory
Cost Element
Group
Quanttiitty//
Vallue Fllag
Fiixed//
Var. Flag
Value
Field
PRICE
20
50
100
QUANTITY
MATERIALS
A
Material
400000
400100
400200
MATERIALS
A
Internal Activities
600000
620000 Text
PRICE
20
50
100
QUANTITY
Material
400000
400100
400200
Internal Activities
600000
620000 Text
1
1
1
1
3
3
3
3
10
20
30
40
MVARQ
AVARP
AVARQ
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Information System: Contents
• Structure of the information system
• Overview standard reports for effective
controlling
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CO-PC Report Trees
Main tree
CO-PC
Product Cost Planning
Product Cost by Period
Product Cost by Order
Product Cost by
Sales Order
Costs for Intagible
Goods and Services
Actual Costing /
Material-Ledger
Component tree
Summarized Analysisy
Object lists
Order Selection
Plant
Material
Order Hierarchies
Detailed reports
Object Comparisons
Other Reports
24. Power Plant I
Power Plant II
Industry
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Summarized Analysis -
Product Drill Down
Product-Drill- Down
+
+-
++
Automotive
Chemicals
Order Material Plan Actual l Target / Actual
1002
3459
3986
P-100
P-100
P-101
P-101
1,000
1,200
900
950
1,000
1,250
850
1,800
l Variance Analysis
l Plan / Actual
l Work in Process
Order Selection
Order Hierarchy
Detailed Reports
25. Drilldown Reporting - Example
Plant 1000 Target Actual Price var . Res .-usage var . Quantity variance
Product group A 6,000 6,000
Product group B 12,000 17,500 1,500 1,000 3,000
Product group C 5,500 7,500 2,000
l Planned costs
l Plan/actual comparison
l Target/actual comparison
l Target/actual/variance Material P-100 Target Actual Variances
Order 123 1,800 3,000 1,200
Order 456 400 400
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R
Drill-down: Materials in product group B
Product group B Target Actual Price var . Res .-usage var . Quantity variance
Material P-100 2,800 4,000 1,200
Material P-200 3,500 4,500 500 500
Material P-300 2,500 3,000 100 400
. . .
l Variance categories
l WIP
l Actual costs
Drill-down: Orders for material P-100
Standard Reports
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Planned costs
Plan/actual comparison
Tgt/actual comparison
Tgt/actual/variance
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Order Summarization
Through Classification
Hierarchy Description
COPC-VAR
Controlling area
Material group 001
Plant 1000
Plant 1100
Material group 002
Material group 003
Settings ->Planned costs/actual costs
197,000 219,500 SSttaannddaarrdd RReeppoorrttss
82,000 92,500
30,000 30,500
32,000 33,500
20,000
50,000 59,000
65,000 68,000
Variances categories
WIP
Actual costs
28,500
Order with variances
Evaluate the effectiveness of your production system. - set meaningful standards to measure performance - use variance analysis to compare - report by plant, product group, product or even order
Strategic decisions - (primary) cost component split, cost component splits by organizational unit - scrap costs, full integration of Activity Based Costing
Inventory valuation - alternative valuations (legal, group, profit center) - three parallel currencies - standard costs - actual costs (will be provided in a future release)
Semi-finished and finished goods valuation - standard prices provided by cost estimates - creation of alternative cost estimates as closing activities for balance sheet purposes
Value Work-in-Process at the close of a period
Provisions for losses - used in a make-to-order environment - update balance sheet and profit-and-loss statements accordingly
The Product Cost by Sales Order component is recommended for complex make-to-order environments.
You can use the Product Cost by Sales Order component in the following situations:
When you are manufacturing in-house with reference to a sales order.
When you are purchasing products with reference to a sales order and reselling them to your customers.
When you are providing services whose costs are assigned to a sales order.
This component allows you to do the following:
Calculate and analyze planned costs and actual costs by sales order item
Calculate and analyze planned revenues and actual revenues by sales order item
Calculate the value of your inventories of finished and unfinished products
Create reserves automatically
Transfer data to Financial Accounting (FI)
Transfer data to Profitability Analysis (CO-PA)
Transfer data to Profit Center Accounting (EC-PCA)
In Cost Object Controlling, the costs incurred in the production of a product or service are collected on a cost object (such as a production order). Which cost object is used depends on your controlling requirements. It may be a sales order, a production order, a process order or a production cost collector. Cost Object Controlling is used to calculate work in process, scrap costs, and variances at period close.
In standard cost allocation, direct costs are assigned from the preceding components directly to the cost objects. Overhead is assigned to cost centers according to areas of responsibility.
Overhead is allocated from cost centers to cost objects by means of various allocation procedures, such as surcharges, assessment, and activity allocation. This allocation often does not accurately reflect the source of the overhead. Percentage overhead is applied proportionately to the direct costs, which can produce a misleading reflection of the product costs and thus lead to incorrect decisions being made.
Activity-Based Costing enables you to allocate the overhead from cost centers to processes and assign the overhead to cost objects according to the process usage at source level.
The procedure is as follows:
Identify the business processes that create significant overhead
Assign costs to processes via resource drivers
Define cost drivers to allocate the process costs to the cost objects according to their source
The process chain shows step by step the manufacturing process using production orders. We will focus on the highlighted steps in this section of event based posting for products.
An order request may come from SOP as described in the section on plan integration. You can transfer data from SOP to the production plan. Plan orders can be generated in MRP and then converted to production orders. An order request could also be based on a business request from outside the system. During the MRP run, the system will also check the availability of the necessary semi-finished goods. If there are not enough materials available, the system may create additional plan orders for them, which can be converted to production orders, purchase requisitions, or purchase orders.
When an order is created, a preliminary cost estimate is also created (although not always, such as in repetitive manufacturing) to calculate the planned costs for the order. The planned costs are updated whenever the order is changed.
When the order is released, actual costs can be assigned to the order. Actual costs are incurred when materials are withdrawn from stock and issued against the order and when confirmations documenting the consumption of activity types are created. Primary costs can be posted directly from other system components to the production order. Shop papers are printed for the shop floor.
After finishing the production process, the goods are delivered to stock. You may decide to do partial deliveries at any time during the production process.
Overhead costs can be allocated to cost objects in three different ways.
With overhead surcharges, you can allocate overhead costs in a very simple way by using costing sheets with predefined percentage-based or quantity-based overhead rates.
You can allocate activity types and processes directly to the respective cost objects. In this case, you allocate actual quantities to the cost objects that are valuated with a planned price.
With a process template, you can allocate process quantities from business processes to cost objects.
The activity prices you calculate during planning are based on planned costs and planned activities. They are also initially used for valuing actual activities.
In actual activity price calculation, the system calculates the activity prices for activity types iteratively using the actual costs debited to the cost center and the actual activity consumption of the cost center. This process includes all activity relationships between cost centers, business processes and cost objects.
After calculating the actual activity prices, you can revalue the actual activities using the actual activity prices. The revaluation of the actual activities at actual activity prices fully credits the sending cost center and debits the receiver (cost object or business process) accordingly.
Revaluation of actual activities at actual activity prices is strongly recommended in cases where the actual costs at a cost center deviate markedly from the planned costs.
If you revaluate actual activities at actual activity prices, you cannot calculate percentage overhead on secondary cost elements. The revaluation of cost elements to which overhead has been applied would make it necessary to recalculate the overhead, which would result in recursion.
The costing sheet for overhead calculation is proposed through the valuation variant for the planned costs. The valuation variant is selected in turn through the costing variant for the planned costs.
The costs for the oil consumed are the base for calculating the overhead. The surcharge for the actual overhead is 20%. The credit key specifies the warehouse cost center and the secondary cost element (type 41) under which the overhead is updated.
When it calculates the overhead, the system determines that oil costs of $1,000 were incurred. The percentage overhead is 20%, so storage costs of $200 are updated on the order.
The offsetting posting for the warehouse cost center is $200.
Overhead calculation cannot be carried out after each operation but only during period-end closing.
You calculate work in process (WIP) to determine what costs have been incurred for production orders that have not yet been settled. The work in process is updated on the production order under secondary cost elements. When the order is settled, postings for the work in process can be generated in Financial Accounting and Profit Center Accounting.
The work in process for each production order is calculated by subtracting the credits for goods receipts from the debits for material withdrawals, internal activity allocations, external activities, overhead, and so forth.
The work in process is calculated in each period until the status of the order is set to final delivery or technically completed. When the last WIP is calculated, the entire WIP is canceled so that the order can be properly settled.
To be able to pass the work in process to Financial Accounting, you define posting rules that link the cost elements for the work in process to G/L accounts. If you specified a Profit Center in the production order, an additional posting will be generated in Profit Center Accounting on the basis of the posting in Financial Accounting.
You can calculate the work in process from the yield confirmed for the individual operations. This method is described in Unit 4. You can also calculate the work in process at a higher level by means of the reconciliation ledger.
You calculate work in process to determine the value of unfinished products.
In the Product Cost by Order component, you valuate the work in process at actual costs.
The work in process is updated to the production order or process order under secondary cost elements called results analysis cost elements (cost element type 31).
The system can update the work in process not only as a total but also split it according to fixed and variable costs. A requirement for this function is that the price control indicator in the material's master record is set to S (standard price) and that a current standard cost estimate for the material exists.
When the work in process has been calculated, you may receive a message indicating that some of the orders had errors and that the work in process must be recalculated for those orders after the errors have been corrected. You can use the worklist to help you locate and correct the errors.
You can display the work in process in the information system at any time. The report category Summarized Analysis shows you aggregated data, such as the work in process summarized at the level of the plant or controlling area.
When WIP is calculated, the system sets the status to RESA (Results analysis carried out). The system uses this status to select the orders for analysis for which work in process has been calculated.
Work in process cannot be calculated separately by operation or phase.
In the Product Cost by Order component, WIP is posted on the balance sheet when you settle the production order. In Customizing for Product Cost Controlling, you use posting rules to define the accounts to which work in process is posted.
If Profit Center Accounting is active, an additional posting is automatically generated in Profit Center Accounting.
The number of the order for which work in process is passed on to Financial Accounting is displayed in the Allocation field of the accounting document. Using the allocation field ensures that the postings to the Financial Accounting component can be explained.
Variance calculation enables you to analyze the difference between the target costs (value of goods delivered to stock) and the actual costs for the order.
This difference is settled to Financial Accounting as a price difference.
The variance calculation assigns the difference to variance categories. This information is updated on the order and can be settled to Profitability Analysis.
In Profitability Analysis, the standard cost of goods manufactured for the product is compared with the revenues to calculate the first contribution margin for the period.
The variances between the actual costs and the first contribution margin can be used to calculate a second contribution margin for the period.
Variance category: examples
Price variance: Raw material 1 went into the standard cost estimate at $10 (the standard price was selected in accordance with the valuation strategy). When the material was withdrawn from stock, however, the goods movement was valuated at $11 (because according to price control the moving average price is used for valuation). This difference results in a price variance of $1.
Quantity variance: Machine time of 15 minutes was planned. However, 17 minutes were confirmed. The activity price for the machine time is $5 per minute. This difference results in a quantity variance of $10.
Resource-usage variance: Raw material 2 was used instead of raw material 1. The costs for both raw material 1 and raw material 2 are reported as resource-usage variances.
Input variance: The material price for raw material 1 changed so the material overhead is higher than planned. The difference between the planned and the actual material overhead surcharges is reported as an input variance.
Output price variance: If the delivery to stock is made at a price that is not the standard price (e.g., the planned price), the difference is reported as an output price variance. This variance category can only occur for materials that have moving average price control.
Remaining variance: If the system cannot calculate any target costs, it will report only remaining variances.
When you settle a production order, the system makes the following postings:
The order balance (the difference between the credit and debit of the production order) is settled to Financial Accounting in accordance with the control parameters in the settlement structure as follows:
If the price control indicator of the material is set to S, the price difference account is debited (price difference to plant activity account (inventory change))
If the price control indicator of the material is set to V, the material stock account is debited (inventory to plant activity account (inventory change)). In the case of a stock shortage, the price difference account is debited proportionally.
The individual variance categories are settled to the profitability segment for the finished material in accordance with the control parameters in the PA transfer structure. The PA transfer structure assigns the individual variance categories to the value fields of an operating concern.
The data can also be transferred to the following components:
Profit Center Accounting (EC-PCA)
Actual Costing / Material Ledger (CO-PC-ACT)
After final delivery, any costs remaining on the order are settled to stock or to a price difference account. The order is then fully credited.
If the price control indicator in the material master record is S, a price difference account is debited with the difference between the actual costs incurred and the credit postings for the goods receipts (in the example, this difference is $400). The moving average price is recalculated and updated for statistical purposes.
If the price control indicator in the material master record is V, the material stock account is debited with the difference between the actual costs incurred and the credit postings for the goods receipts (in the example, this difference is $400). The total value of the stock and the moving average price are recalculated.
If the warehouse stock at the time of settlement is less than the order quantity because goods were issued in the meantime, the following happens:
The costs ($40 in the example) that are based on the quantity that is still in stock are posted to the material stock account of the material.
The remaining costs ($360 in the example) are automatically posted to a price difference account.
The PA settlement structure groups the debit cost elements and variance categories into PA settlement assignments. The PA settlement assignments are linked to Profitability Analysis value fields.
Note the following when defining the PA settlement structure:
Each debit cost element must be represented in the PA settlement structure. You can either group all cost elements into a cost element group or define a number of groups for materials, internal activities, overhead costs, etc. These groups have the category cost elements.
Each variance category must be represented in the PA settlement structure. The variance categories are specified by the system and have the category variances.
A given combination of cost element group and variance category can only be assigned to one value field.
You should make sure that:
The current standard cost estimate is selected for valuation in Profitability Analysis
The cost components of the standard cost estimate are linked to value fields
The structure of the standard Product Cost Controlling Information System has two levels: the main tree and the application report tree.
The main tree contains the sub-components of the Product Cost Controlling Information System. The structure does correspond to the component hierarchy and is static.
The component tree can be used to collect and organize all reports of a component centrally. You can modify the individual application report trees to suit your own requirements e.g., add company-specific reports.
You can assign the following report types to the application report tree:
Report Writer reports
Product drilldown
Transactions
ABAP reports
Order Hierarchies: Here the data is summarized upwards according to a predefined structure, but you can define the structure yourself. In contrast to product drilldowns, you can only expand this summarized data in accordance with the predefined structure from the top down. The summarization is by original cost element.
Product Drilldowns: The product drilldown is an interactive tool for evaluation and presentation of data in Cost Object Controlling. The data is summarized according to predefined structures. You can expand this summarized data using different criteria to access the lower levels.
You access the product drill-down either with Period costing or Ranking lists or Exceptions in the report tree.
In this example, the cumulative variances for all product groups in a plant are being displayed. For the product group with the highest variances, you can call up a list of the relevant materials by double clicking. For the material with the highest variances, you can call up a list of the relevant orders by double clicking. From this list you can go to a report that displays the variances according to cost element. From there you can track the causes of the excessive variances.
With an order hierarchy you can group the information on the order according to your requirements. The order summarization process creates totals for each node in the hierarchy for the planned costs, target costs, actual costs, variances and work in process of all subordinate orders.
This information is reported for each node and can be displayed in the information system at any time.
In Customizing, you can define status-dependent conditions for order selection. These conditions enable you to prevent orders for which no actual costs have been incurred from being included in summarization.
You can define exception rules so that a traffic light appears whenever a certain predefined threshold value is exceeded. These rules facilitate finding the nodes you want to analyze.