Can we use two costing variants for standards cost estimate release.

[former_member197292]

Hi,

We have 2 plants (plant 5100 and plant 5200) under company code 5000.

We have run standard cost estimate(CK11N) for material 98001000027 at plant 5100 using costing variant ZG01 and at plant 5200 using costing variant ZG02. First, we released standard cost estimate (CK24) for this materia at plant 5100 and set (in marking allowance) costing variant ZG01 and costing version 01. Next time when we are trying to release the standard cost estimate for the same material for plant 5200, it is automatically picking ZG01 as costing variant in marking allowance and it is not allowing to change the costing variant to ZG02 saying Company code 5000: Release already carried out, cancellation not possible, Message no. CK797.

Is it possible to use two different costing variants for release of standard cost estimate for a material at two different plants at the same company code? If so how?

Please suggest.

Thanks,

Bijay

[former_member197292 · Accepted solution]

Hi Srikanth,

Thanks for your reply.

But in one costing variant we can have only on valuation variant. There is no setting where we can configure in following combinations:

Costing vatiant Company Code Plant Valuation Variant

ZG01 5000 5100 ZV01

ZG01 5000 5200 ZV02

ZG01 5000 5300 ZV03

At most we can define different valuation variant for different plant in T-Code OKK4. Also we cannot fix one Valuation variant for one plant in our case because we have different valuation variants for sale order costing variant and production order costing variant for the same plant.

If we fix a particular valuation variant for a plant, we need to assign same valuation variant for all costing variants ( like sales order costing variant and production order costing variant) for that plant. This is not possible as the logics for sales order and production order valuation are different in our case.

What you suggest?

Regards,

Bijay

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Hi Bijay,

What I meant to say was, you should assign you Valuation Variant to two different plants. This you can do from Costing Variant Screen also in OKKN.

For Sales Order costing, the Costing Variant used (standard) is PPC4. Pls check IDES system for settings.

You can assign different Valuation Variants in PPC1 and PPC4.

Pls check the settings and revert back if you still have doubt...

Srikanth Munnaluri

[former_member197292 · Accepted solution]

Hi,

Thanks for you reply.

As advised by you : "You need use two different Valuation Variants for different Plants" . I tried to do this configuration (different valuation variant to different plant) but I am getting following message:

Specify the key within the work area

Message no. SV033

Diagnosis

You have attempted to create an entry whose key is not in the range defined for this area.

System Response

The entry cannot be created.

Procedure

Please check your entry.

Also I checked the setting (as advised by you) in IDES but there same valuation variant is assigned to different plants.

I want to assign diffetent valuation variant to different plants as we have separate costing sheets (to be linked to valuation variant) for all the plants.

If any further advice, please suggest.

Thanks,

Bijay

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Hi Bijay,

Sorry for my first message where in I mentioned "different Valuation Variants for different Plants". It was my typing mistake. That's the reason why I mentioned

in the second reply to go for one single Valuation Variant and assignment of the same to different Plants.

This can be done without any problem as it is a standard feature. Pls check once again where you are going wrong.

One more thing is you don't need to maintain different costing sheets for the purpose of different Plants. In the configuration of the Costing Sheet,

you can maintain credit keys for different Plants.

Pls check. Whatever you are asking is all avilable as a standard functionality.

Srikanth Munnaluri

[former_member197292 · Accepted solution]

Hi,

Thanks for your reply again.

What is the benefit of assigning "Single Valuation Variant same to different Plants" ? In costing variant also we can assign maximum only one valuation variant and this valuation variant will default for all the plants, and hence I dont think it is necessary to assign same valuation variant to different plants.

My issue is :

Example: ( Standard Cost Estimate for material 98001000027)

Plant - 1

Material Cost Rs.100

Labour Cost Rs.50

Overheads (10% of Labour Cost) Rs.5

(say ,through costing sheet - 1)

Total Standard Cost Estimate Rs.155

Plant - 2

Material Cost Rs.150

Labour Cost Rs.100

Overheads (20% of Labour Cost) Rs.20

(say, through costing sheet - 2)

Total Standard Cost Estimate Rs.270

Now, Please explain why we cannot have two Standard Cost Estimates for a material at two different plants? If it is possible to have two standard cost estimates for a material at two different plants, how to take care of overheads (rate of which varies) at two different plants (plant - 1 > 10% and plant- 2>20%) as we can assign maximum one costing sheet to a valuation variant variant?

How to map the system so as to meet the above requirement?

Thanks,

Bijay

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

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[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Hi Bijay,

There is no reason why you cannot have two different cost estimates at two plants using the same costing variant. Your valuation strategy does not seem to be different at the two plants ... just the underlying costs and overheads.

To take your example, since the info records for raw materials can be set up at the plant level, you can have different raw material costs for the same finished product at two plants. You can also set up a different activity type in the routing in plant 2 to reflect the higher labor costs (plan price accordingly in KP26). As far as overheads are concerned, you can still specify different OH rates for different plants in the same costing sheet ... just pick a dependency for the overhead in the costing sheet that contains plant (D020 should do the trick). Hope this provides some ideas to begin tackling the problem.

Harish Toppae

[Former Member]

Hi Bijay,

You can't two Costing Variants in single company code. You need use two different Valuation Variants for different Plants.

Pls revert back for futher explanation...

Srikanth Munnaluri