Product Cost Controlling with SAP

✍ Scribed by John Jordan (author)

• Publisher: SAP PRESS (a division of Rheinwerk Publishing)
• Year: 2016
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 703
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Looking for a comprehensive guide to product cost controlling? With this best-seller, you'll begin with a breakdown of how to manage master data and configure settings in SAP ERP CO. Next, you'll learn the nitty-gritty details of integrated planning, from creating cost estimates to handling planned costs, actual costs, and final settlements. Contains coverage of SAP HANA, current trends in product cost controlling, and other new functionalities!

✦ Table of Contents

Preface
Part I: Integrated Planning
1 Integrated Planning
1.1 Profitability Analysis
1.2 Sales and Operations Planning
1.3 Flexible Planning
1.3.1 Display Info Structure
1.3.2 Create Info Structure
1.3.3 Planning Hierarchy
1.3.4 Planning Types
1.3.5 Macros
1.3.6 Version Management
1.4 Long-Term Planning
1.4.1 Transfer the Production Plan
1.4.2 Create a Planning Scenario
1.4.3 Long-Term Planning Run
1.4.4 Transfer Requirements to Purchasing
1.4.5 Transfer Activity Quantities to CCA
1.5 Cost Center Planning
1.5.1 Cost Element Planning
1.5.2 Activity Price Planning
1.5.3 Uploading Plan Data from Excel
1.6 Final Planning
1.6.1 Calculate Standard Costs
1.6.2 Transfer Standard Costs to CO-PA
1.7 Summary
Part II: Product Cost Planning
2 Controlling Master Data
2.1 Cost Element
2.1.1 Primary Postings
2.1.2 Secondary Postings
2.1.3 Basic Data
2.1.4 Indicators
2.1.5 Default Account Assignment
2.1.6 History
2.2 Cost Center
2.2.1 Standard Hierarchy
2.2.2 Basic Data
2.2.3 Control
2.2.4 Templates
2.2.5 Address and Communication
2.2.6 History
2.3 Activity Type
2.3.1 Basic Data
2.3.2 Indicators
2.3.3 Output
2.3.4 History
2.3.5 Group
2.4 Statistical Key Figures
2.5 Summary
3 Material Master Data
3.1 MRP 1 View
3.1.1 General Data
3.1.2 Lot Size Data
3.2 MRP 2 View
3.3 MRP 4 View
3.3.1 BOM Explosion and Dependent Requirements
3.3.2 Discontinued Parts
3.4 Costing 1 View
3.4.1 General Data
3.4.2 Quantity Structure Data
3.5 Costing 2 View
3.5.1 Standard Cost Estimate
3.5.2 Planned Prices
3.5.3 Valuation Data
3.6 Accounting 1 View
3.6.1 General Data
3.6.2 Current Valuation
3.6.3 Previous Period/Year
3.6.4 Standard Cost Estimate
3.7 Accounting 1 View: Material Ledger Activated
3.7.1 General Valuation Data
3.7.2 Prices and Values
3.8 Accounting 2 View
3.8.1 Populate Tax Price and Commercial Price
3.8.2 Using the Tax and Commercial Price Fields
3.9 Summary
4 Logistics Master Data
4.1 Bill of Materials
4.1.1 Basic Data
4.1.2 Status/Long Text
4.1.3 Administration
4.1.4 Document Assignment
4.2 Work Centers
4.2.1 Basic Data
4.2.2 Default Values
4.2.3 Capacities
4.2.4 Scheduling
4.2.5 Costing
4.3 Routing
4.3.1 Header
4.3.2 Operation Overview
4.3.3 Operation Details
4.4 Product Cost Collector
4.4.1 Data
4.4.2 Header
4.4.3 Production Process
4.4.4 List Product Cost Collectors
4.5 Purchasing Info Record
4.5.1 Purchasing Organization Data 1
4.5.2 Conditions
4.5.3 Plant-Specific Purchasing Info Records
4.6 Source List
4.6.1 Fixed Source of Supply
4.6.2 Blocked Source of Supply
4.7 Summary
5 Costing Sheets
5.1 Overhead
5.2 Calculation Base
5.3 Overhead Rate
5.3.1 Percentage Overhead
5.3.2 Quantity-Based Overhead
5.4 Credit Key
5.5 Summary
6 Cost Components
6.1 Cost Component Terms
6.2 Cost Components with Attributes
6.2.1 Control
6.2.2 Filter Criteria for Cost Component Views
6.2.3 Delta Profit for Group Costing
6.2.4 Cost Summarization
6.2.5 Assign Cost Elements to Cost Components
6.2.6 Update of Additive Costs
6.2.7 Transfer Structure
6.3 Cost Component View
6.3.1 Cost Estimate Display
6.3.2 Overhead Calculation
6.3.3 Other Components
6.4 Organizational Units of Cost Components
6.4.1 Main Cost Component Structure
6.4.2 Auxiliary Cost Component Structure
6.4.3 Check Assignment to Organizational Units
6.5 Cost Component Groups
6.5.1 Create Cost Component Groups
6.5.2 Assign Groups to Cost Components
6.5.3 Assign Groups to Report Columns
6.6 Summary
7 Costing Variant Components
7.1 Define Costing Variant
7.2 Costing Type
7.2.1 Price Update
7.2.2 Save Parameters
7.2.3 Miscellaneous
7.3 Valuation Variant
7.3.1 Material Valuation
7.3.2 Activity Types and Processes
7.3.3 Subcontracting
7.3.4 External Processing
7.3.5 Overhead
7.3.6 Miscellaneous
7.4 Date Control
7.4.1 Costing Date From
7.4.2 Costing Date To
7.4.3 Quantity Structure Date
7.4.4 Valuation Date
7.5 Quantity Structure Control
7.5.1 BOM
7.5.2 Routing
7.6 Transfer Control
7.6.1 Single-Plant
7.6.2 Cross-Plant
7.7 Reference Variant
7.8 Summary
8 Costing Variant Tabs
8.1 Control
8.2 Quantity Structure
8.2.1 Pass On Lot Size
8.2.2 Ignore Cost Estimate without Quantity Structure
8.2.3 Transfer Control Can Be Changed
8.2.4 Transfer Active Standard Cost Estimate if Errors
8.2.5 Transfer Cost Estimate of an Order BOM
8.3 Additive Costs
8.3.1 Additive Cost Components
8.3.2 Include Additive Costs with Stock Transfers
8.4 Update
8.4.1 Saving Allowed
8.4.2 Save Error Log
8.4.3 Defaults Can Be Changed by User
8.4.4 Itemization
8.5 Assignments
8.5.1 Cost Component Structure
8.5.2 Costing Version
8.5.3 Cost Component Split in Controlling Area Currency
8.5.4 Cross-Company Costing
8.6 Miscellaneous
8.6.1 Error Management
8.6.2 Parameters for Error Management
8.7 Summary
9 Standard Cost Estimates
9.1 Create Standard Cost Estimate
9.1.1 Costing Data
9.1.2 Dates
9.1.3 Quantity Structure
9.2 Mark and Release
9.3 Costing Runs
9.3.1 Costing Data
9.3.2 Dates
9.3.3 Valuation
9.3.4 Costing Run Steps
9.4 Summary
10 Preliminary Cost Estimates
10.1 Create Preliminary Cost Estimate
10.2 Production Process
10.3 Transfer Control
10.4 Mass Processing
10.5 Summary
11 Unit Cost Estimates
11.1 Base Planning Object
11.1.1 Item
11.1.2 Category
11.1.3 Resource
11.1.4 Plant/Activity
11.1.5 Quantity
11.1.6 Value – Total
11.1.7 Cost Element
11.2 Material Cost Estimate without Quantity Structure
11.3 Summary
Part III: Cost Object Controlling
12 Preliminary Costing
12.1 Production Order Control
12.1.1 Costing Variant for Planned Costs
12.1.2 Costing Variant for Actual Costs
12.1.3 Costing Sheet
12.1.4 Overhead Key
12.1.5 Results Analysis Key
12.1.6 Variance Key
12.1.7 Determine Plan Costs
12.2 Display Planned Costs
12.3 Summary
13 Simultaneous Costing
13.1 Goods Movements
13.1.1 Debits
13.1.2 Credits
13.2 Confirmations
13.2.1 Secondary Postings
13.2.2 Create Production Order
13.2.3 Confirm Activities
13.2.4 Default Activities
13.2.5 Operation Sequence
13.3 Report Costs
13.4 Summary
14 Overhead
14.1 Configuration
14.2 Overhead Period-End Processing
14.3 SAP HANA and Overhead Processing
14.4 Summary
15 Work in Process
15.1 WIP Configuration
15.1.1 Define Results Analysis Keys
15.1.2 Define Results Analysis Versions
15.1.3 Define Valuation Method (Target Costs)
15.1.4 Define Valuation Variant for WIP and Scrap
15.1.5 Assignment of Valuation Variant for WIP
15.1.6 Define Line IDs
15.1.7 Define Assignment
15.1.8 Define Update
15.1.9 Define Posting Rules for Settling WIP
15.2 Results Analysis Configuration
15.3 WIP Period-End
15.3.1 Product Cost by Period
15.3.2 Product Cost by Order
15.4 SAP HANA and WIP
15.5 Summary
16 Variance Calculations
16.1 Types of Variance Calculation
16.1.1 Total Variance
16.1.2 Production Variance
16.1.3 Planning Variance
16.2 Variance Configuration
16.2.1 Define Variance Keys
16.2.2 Define Default Variance Keys for Plants
16.2.3 Define Variance Variants
16.2.4 Define Valuation Variant for WIP and Scrap
16.2.5 Define Target Cost Versions
16.3 Variance Categories
16.3.1 Input Variances
16.3.2 Output Variances
16.4 Variance Period End
16.4.1 Product Cost by Period
16.4.2 Product Cost by Order
16.5 SAP HANA and Variance Calculation
16.6 Summary
17 Settlement
17.1 Settlement Configuration
17.1.1 Settlement Profile
17.1.2 Allocation Structure
17.1.3 Source Structure
17.1.4 PA Transfer Structure
17.2 Settlement Period-End Process
17.2.1 Parameters
17.2.2 Processing Options
17.3 SAP HANA and Settlement
17.4 Summary
18 Special Topics
18.1 Sales Order Controlling
18.1.1 Configuration
18.1.2 Period-End Processing
18.1.3 SAP HANA and Sales Orders
18.2 Subcontracting
18.2.1 MRP 2 View
18.2.2 Purchase Order
18.2.3 Monitoring Stocks Provided to Vendor
18.2.4 Goods Receipt of End Product
18.3 Material Ledger
18.3.1 Multiple Currencies or Valuations
18.3.2 Actual Costing
18.3.3 Configuration
18.3.4 Period-End Processing
18.3.5 SAP HANA and the Material Ledger
18.4 Delivery Costs
18.4.1 Purchased Material Consumption Account
18.4.2 Configure Costing Variant
18.4.3 Assign Conditions to Origin Groups
18.4.4 Assign Conditions to Purchasing Info Records
18.4.5 Assign Origin Groups to Cost Components
18.5 Templates
18.6 Mixed-Cost Estimate
18.6.1 Quantity Structure and Costing Version
18.6.2 Create Procurement Alternative
18.6.3 Define Mixing Ratios
18.6.4 Create a Mixed-Cost Estimate
18.7 Cost Estimate User Exits
18.7.1 Cross-Company Code Costing
18.7.2 Production Resource/Tool Costing
18.7.3 Bulk Material Costing
18.7.4 Material Valuation
18.7.5 Costing Reports
18.8 Summary
Part IV: Information System and Trends
19 Information System
19.1 Product Cost Planning
19.1.1 Analyze Costing Runs
19.1.2 List Material Cost Estimates
19.1.3 Detailed Reports
19.1.4 Object Comparisons
19.2 Cost Object Controlling
19.2.1 Product Drilldown Reports
19.2.2 Summarization Hierarchy Reports
19.2.3 Summarization and Drilldown Reports with SAP HANA
19.2.4 Detailed Reports
19.2.5 Line Item Reports
19.2.6 Line Item Reports with SAP HANA
19.3 Production Order Reports
19.3.1 Order Information System
19.3.2 Order Selection
19.4 Cost Center Reports
19.5 Summary
20 Trends in Product Cost Controlling
20.1 Enhancement Packages and Business Functions
20.1.1 FIN_CO_COGM: Multiple Valuation of Cost of Goods Manufactured
20.1.2 LOG_MM_SIT: Cross-Company-Code Stock/Actual Costing
20.1.3 LOG_EAM_OLC: Operation Account Assignment
20.1.4 FIN_CO_CCMGMT: Cost Center Management
20.2 SAP HANA
20.2.1 SAP S/4HANA
20.2.2 SAP Fiori
20.3 Summary
Conclusion
Appendices
Index