Material costed multiple times

[former_member195383]

Hi,

The user has raised an issue, in which a material with a valid stk has been included in the subsequent costing run .

As per the user, the material should not have been included in the costing run, as it already has a vaild STK.

Can someone throw some light as to why the same is happening. Is the Plant specific material status 'WK' in

anyway affects it. Please let me know.

Regards

Rudra

[Former Member]

hi..

Your question is not verymuch clear. Give some more details.

Are you talking about standard cost estimation or Actual costing ?

Remember in both the cases costing of material has got no relation with stock.

Clearly mention your requirement so that some useful reply can be given.

kkumar

[former_member195383]

Hi,

I think the word STK created the confusion. STK is a costing variant. When I am telling it is having a valid STK means, the material is already costed and and it is getting included in a subsequent costing run inspite of that.

The user is insisting that, this should not be the case and the material should not be picked up in the subsequent costing run,

if it has been costed previously.

Hence I want to know the reason as to why this material got picked in the subseqent costing run.

Regards

Rudra

[ajaycwa1981]

Hi Rudra

1. There is no feature in SAP which can check this....

If you specify any material to be costed, it will be costed by the system - provided the cost estimate of the same has not been released in that same period

2. if you use CK11N - You need to ensure that you are not costing any such material

If you are using Ck40N - you can specify this material in the exclusion list... In the Step Selection Parameters - You specify the Plant/Mat To be costed... Here, you can also specify the MATs not to be costed using the Multiple Selection Option for the field "material"

However, this entire exercise would be manual... You can manually filter the records using Field MBEW-LPLPR Not Equal to Zero.... This would give you list of those mats where cost estimate has not been released

Br, Ajay M

[former_member195383]

Hi Ajay,

Thanks for the answer.

The user just wants to know the logic behind the material getting picked or not getting picked.

The material has a valid cosestimate and it is release.In that case also, for some materials, they are getting picked in copsting run and for some, they dont get picked in costing run. What can be the reason here?

[ajaycwa1981]

Hi

Either the Do Not Cost indicator is ON for them or you would have used CK11N in those cases OR the cost estimate for those materials would have been released in the current month only.....

Br, Ajay M

[former_member195383]

Hi Ajay,

You have mentioned

"If you specify any material to be costed, it will be costed by the system - provided the cost estimate of the same has not been released in that same period"

What does this period mean? Is it the Costing Date From and Costing Date To ?

Please let me know..

Thanks in advance

[ajaycwa1981]

Hi

If you costed/released a material cost estimate for XYZ on March 15....

This XYZ is part of PQR... PQR is getting costed on March 25.... In this case, XYZ wont be costed again.... however, if you cost PQR in April from CK40N - XYZ will get costed unless you exclude it specifically

Use CK11N for PQR if you dont wanna recost XYZ ever

br, Ajay M

[former_member195383]

If you costed/released a material cost estimate for XYZ on March 15

You are talking about costing run date...right?

[ajaycwa1981]

Yess sir

br, Ajay M

[former_member195383]

Hi Ajay,

I was trying in the sand box system.

I costed a material multiple times successfully in the same month(period). But you have stated that we can cost the material only once in one period.

Has the status WK of material got some thing to do with this behavoiur?

Because, initially when I was trying to cost this material I was not able to cost.

But I changed the status to WK and I was able to cost. Now when I am changing the status

back to blank,then also I am able to cost it multiple times in the same period.

Can you please throw some light?

[ajaycwa1981]

Hi

You can cost N no of times.. But you wont be able to release.. THats what I meant

br, Ajay M

[former_member195383]

ok..two questions here...

1. we have

Costing Run ZTSTR18

Costing Run Date 14.03.2011

In date section in CK40N we have

Costing Date From 04.04.2011 Posting Period 4 2011

Costing Date To 31.12.9999

Qty Structure Date 04.04.2011

Valuation Date 04.04.2011

You are talking about the period 4 here..right? and not the costing run dates period that is 03 .

Please let me know.

2. Leaving apart releasing, my first doubt on selecting the materials.in Selection Step .

It is showing weird behavior , as at certain instances, it gets selected and at certain instances, its giving out the message

no materials selected. So based on what it gets selected over here.

Looking for your input.

Regards

Rudra