Maintaining a costing version in a costing variant

Hi,
I am creating a costing variant for standard mat. estimation. I have to maintain a costing version.
I don't know how to set all the parameters in costing version in OKYD. Will I have to set variant for transfer price, exchange rate and quantity structure?
Why do all these parameters show under and not beside the name of the element in the Assignment Tab of costing variant.
Best wishes,
karol

Hi karol
For standard costing purpose - costing version 01 is defualt version offered by SAP.
With costing version u can create different / various cost estimates created for SFG or FG material
You need to enter version 01 in customizing control paramters for costing variant - viz, in valuation variant, costing type etc
The need to create diff costing versions depend on the requirements.
Ex. Exchange rate is determined thru valuation variant, If you wish to have diff exchange rate for costing - u can enter diff rate and define it in diff costing version
So, when u do costing for a material with two version u will have diff costs
Version 1 - say 100 USD
Version 2 - Say 120 USD with diff exchange rate defined
Again in most of the implementations we dont come across using diff versions. These are considered only when base version costing is stabilized and controls are put in place for entire product cost cycle
System offers quite a lot of options, but everything cannot be chosen at a time to evaluate. My suggestion would be stabilize with the base and then look for these options.
Hope the above clarifies - Pls assign points as a way to say thanks

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