CO Substituion for Production order variance settlement

[former_member210736]

Hi,

In make to order production, Our client requirement was not to settle variances to sales order but directly to COPA.

We cannot use variance categories in settlement profile/PA transfer structure as we have transfer pricing setup and direct settlement of variances categories to COPA updates only legal view of COPA and not profit center view of COPA.

Therefore variance GL account was created as cost element in our case.

Now that client wants to settle variances to sales order for certain plants and directly to COPA in certain plants.

Therefore i tried with a CO substitution to clear sales order assignment for the variance GL and then in OKB9 i have set up PSG as default account assignment.

Now when i run the settlement, in debug mode i am able to see that the substitution works and clears the sales order assignment, but when i see the FI document posted, it still has SO assignment. No COPA document is triggered and a controlling document on sales order is posted.

Why does substitution not work for variance settlement in case of MTO process.

Regards

Raghu

[ajaycwa1981]

Hi

I am not sure if this is the right way of doing it...Did you cross check with SAP about updating Variances to COPA in Prf Center View?

You may need to use exit OKC9 and clear the Sales Order No and also form a PSG in OKC9 using FM COPA_PROFITABILITY_SEGMENT

br, Ajay M

[former_member210736]

Hi Ajay,

Regarding Variance calculation for PC view, you can find the constraint given by SAP under the following link.

http://help.sap.com/saphelp_erp60_sp/helpdata/en/eb/13811243c411d1896f0000e8322d00/frameset.htm

Further following link specifies how to transfer variances from FI to COPA

http://help.sap.com/saphelp_erp60_sp/helpdata/en/7a/4c48c64a0111d1894c0000e829fbbd/frameset.htm

" You are working with standard prices for processed materials.

You have specified in CO-PA Customizing for the relevant production variance account (PRD account) that that account is automatically assigned to CO-PA. For more information, see the section Flow of Actual Values ® Direct Posting from FI/MM ® Automatic Account Assignment in Customizing.

You have specified in the appropriate PA transfer structure in FI which value field is the one to which the information is to be transferred.

Production variances are transferred in this case in much the same way as Direct Postings from FI to CO-PA"

Why does this not apply to MTO when i clear the sales order through OKC9.

Regards

Raghu

[former_member210736]

Hi Ajay,

I used user exit OKC9 as suggested in SAP note 183250 (last paragraph) and SAP note 105024.

With the user exit, we have cleared the Sales order information and also called OKB9 as per the note 105024.

Now the settlement document is generated without Sales order assignment. A PSG is generated but no cost based COPA document. We also use account based copa. In controlling document, i can see PSG is updated as cost object against the variance GL.

Why does not Cost based COPA automatically generated.

We have FI settlement profile properly maintained. With a manual posting to this GL, i can see cost based copa document.

Accounting document before changes to user exit has following object

Dt 40600 Change in Stock, Prd Order

Ct 44760 Production Variance, Sales Order

Accounting document after changes to user exit has following objects

Dt 40600 Change in Stock, Prd Order

Ct 44760 Production Variance, Material & PSG

In the user exit, i have cleared the material from COBL, still it appears in the posting

Regards

Raghu

Edited by: Raghu Ram Thatavarthy on Nov 25, 2011 1:19 PM