Change Activity Consumption in Actual Costing/Material Ledger

Hi Jair,

We faced exactly the same issue. I've contacted contacted SAP below you can see my question and their reply.

In a nut shell you only need to change the setting in config. But the timing of the change is important. See below.

Cheers,

Szymon

My question to SAP:

"The question is: what are the consequences of changing activity update

from '1' to '2' in ML active plants with postings?

When can it be done? (new period, new fiscal year)?

Prior to MMPV and ML close or just after?

When I try this change in our test system I get a warning:

Update data exists in previous periods

Message no. CKMLLA008

Diagnosis

You want to change the activity update settings in a specific valuation

area. The system has determined, however, that there has already been

activity consumption in the actual quantity structure in previous period.

Procedure

You have to make sure that the periods in question are already closed

(i.e. the old data is no longer needed for price determination)

We would like to know all the risks and consequences associated with such

a change.

I will be very grateful for your input."

SAP answer:

"I suggest to change the activity update from '1' to '2' in

the beginning of the period after posting the closing entries for the

previous period. Like this the old period is closed using the old

settings. It just should be made sure that the planned activity prices

prices are not changed when the new period is already open but activity

update is still '1'."

Hi Szymon,

Thank you very much for your help.

Regards.

Jair