Activity Allocation - Split of costs between variable and fixed costs

Hi,
The business is very keen on contribution analysis. Therefore all costs (cost elements) are broken up as fixed and variable.
I have a utility cost center (boiler) which incurs both fixed and variable costs. The cost center produces STEAM (created as an activity type). The steam consumption at the process order level cannot be entered. Therefore the production cost centers contain only MHR (machine hour) as their activity. Morover because the business wants to look at costs by production process each production cost center provides a different MHR activity type.
When I compute the activity rate at the boiler cost center for steam, the system correctly breaks up the rate as fixed and variable. Now, when I try to do an activity allocation (KSCB) from boiler to the production cost centers, the entire costs are being treated as fixed.

Hi,
check SAPNET note 541858, this describes the system behaviour regarding fix/variable cost when KSCB is executed.
Best regards, Christian

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Thanks for reply,
Actually I have 5 activity types and all maintained equvelance number 1 for cost center/activitiy types.
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How i can calculate Variable and Fixed prices for all activities.
Suraj hopefully you understand my problem. let me ur cell number i'll call u or e mail address i'll mail you screen shots.
waiting for reply
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imdad
i underscore bukhari at the rate of hotmail dot com

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