Direct labour cost

Hello all,
I want to capture direct labour cost and raw material cost in COPA where i can map the value field to capture it.
Suggest.

Hi Prem,
You have a seperate component in COPA where you can do this configuration and attach all the components of the cost component structure of the the cost estimate to be flown to COPA.
Normally we take COGS from VPRS condition type in SD and attached it to COPA condition type.
But when you need a details cost break up of the product cost, then you need to do this particulat configuraion
Menu path: IMG>Controlling>Profitability analysis>Master data>Valuation-->Setup Valuation using material cost estimate
The configuration steps are:
1. Define Access to Standard Cost Estimates
2. Assign Costing Keys to Products
3. Assign Costing Keys to Material Types
4. Assign Costing Keys to Any Characteristics
5. Assign Value Fields
Once you do this configuration, you will get the details break up that can be used for Contribution statement in COPA.
Best regards
Surya

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Reporting Direct Production Cost Center Over/Under Absorption

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I am trying to find a way to report Manufacturing Cost Center Over/Under Absorption in a similar way COGS are reported in CO-PA. I mean - I would like to breakdown Direct Manufacturing Cost Center Over/Under Absorption into cost elements (just like COGS are broken down in COPA when invoice is posted).
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My intention was to show Cost center over/underabsorption broken down by cost componets (activity Labour, Machine, Overhead). Currently it is shown as a balance on cost center. I would like to be able to recognize which part of Direct manufacturing CC balance refers to Labour, which to Machine and which to Overhead. Is it possible to achieve in sandard report or additional settings/development is required.
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Actual labour cost calculation

Hi Gurus,
IN KP26, we have fixed lab hrs.From Table S027,we are getting lab cost for a particular production order.My user do not want lab cost and they want to delete it and lab hrs should be remain as it is
in configuration.
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Hi,
In KP26, Do not maintain Fixed and variable price, But maintain only labour hours. U can go directly to KP26 and remove the fixed and variable price.
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I sell direct labour (service engineers etc) both as time & material jobs and as fixed priced jobs. As SAP B1 does not have any job costing my work around is to set each engineer as an Item master and book the number of hours worked on any job as you would if selling widgets i.e 5 hours work/5widgets sold.
I use 'sold only items (with no cost) for my fixed price sales and by posting, say, 5 hours to the sales order I at least get a sales invoice which shows gross profit after deducting 5 X item cost/hourly cost from the 'sales only' item.
It gets a lot more detailed with me having to journal the payroll and match it against all the items of labour I've posted but hopefully you get the idea.
What I'd like to know is there any one else out there that uses direct labour and needs to reflect their cost and sales value, gross profit etc and balance it back to the actual oayrol costs etc
Any help woulld again be gratefully appretiated and even bribey comes to mind. LOL

Martin,
As far as I know standard system functionality only allows for standards to be setup to track labor costs. If you want specific employee costs (actuals from payroll) you would need an ISV product. I don't know of any manufacturing add-ons that give this functionality but Enprise and Navigator's Project One give you this functionality for project-based companies.
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Direct labour and material

Hi,
Overhead expenses are all costs on the income statement except for direct labor and direct materials.
May I know why direct labour and direct material not cost in income statement?
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Hi:
Direct material and direct labor are the cost that can be easily identified in production process. Direct material and direct labor are termed as prime costs ,when combined with overhead costs makes total manufacturing cost. Overhead costs being indirect cost of manufacturing e.g indirect labor (administration ,selling and management payroll costs),depreciation, utilities cost can not be directly attributed to production process,hence planning is done and activity rate is determined for each cost area so that it can be given its share of cost based on the usage.
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How to create the generic data source for Labour costs report in BI (actual& plan costs)?

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My requirement is to get the total labour costs in BEx analyzer.So i need to create custom DS for that. But i am not sure about the FICO tables which are having the Labour info..
I'm having the GR10 report from R/3 sidepls look at the document. But i am not sure about the report, how that built,and giude me on the report.
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Hi,
There are COOM data source which may suits your needs.
please check data source
0CO_OM_WBS_6
0CO_OM_WBS_3
Base tables are COSP and COSS.
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Assign direct material cost to value field in copa while issue to Prod orde

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My requirement is like this:
There are some 16 material groups from A to P each containing some materials(finished goods).
I want to allocate overhead to different material groups(Charecteristic in copa) in COPA using the periodic assesment cycles. I am able to allocate overhead(admin & sales cost) to different value fields in copa from different cost centers.
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Pls explain me whether we can do it. if yes how?
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VST-IT.

PA is a Profitability analysis tool. That means it gets updated when a sale is made, not before. (Except for settlements and assessment of overheads.)
Goods issues for production gets updated in CO-PC, and needs to be analysed there. If you don't, you loose all the inbuilt tools for variance analysis, cost estimate comparisons, Wip Calculation etc. To the best of my knowledge, a Profitability Segment cannot be used as a cost object in Production Planning, because amongst others, you need to be able to capitalise the produced materials to stock at the end of the production run, or to WIP at the end of the Financial period,which is not possible with PS.
Similarly, overheads are recorded in CCA and needs to be analysed there.
If one goes against these big groupings in SAP, you always run into problems.

Report to display Mat Cost Planned Labour Cost and Over head cost

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Greetings of the day..
I need a Report that Display Material Cost , Planned Labour Cost,Actual Labour Cost and Over head value
where do i start from and what are the tables involving in this report..
if already done this A code snippet is more helpful...
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Assuming you are talking about Maintenance Order.
Use table: PMCO.
Here the line with field VORGA having value KPPS gives the Planned Costs of the Order in the field WRT01.
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Also have a look at Tcode KKBC_ORD.
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Settlement of labour cost from sales contract order to CO-PA

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Could you please explain how the calculation is made while settling the labour cost from sales cotract order to CO-PA.
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RC

Hi,
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Absorption&Variable(Direct)method Costing, are possible both method on SAP?

Hello my dear Gurus:
In our actual project; we are trying to include on SAP the Absorption and Variable (Direct) costing methods; this of course within the Controlling modules (Product costing (actual costing), CCA, IO's, etc.) In order to comply with the external (Absorption) and internal (Variable/Direct) costing requirements. So the Big question we already know that the absorption method is plain, BUT how can we include the variable (Direct) method costing with any development (i.e: Parallel Accounting costing (Alternative Valuation Run)). or configuring the Cost Components attributes that the (Fixed costs) are not included in the inventory valuation (TCODE OKTZ).
Our first impression is that SAP it is only capable to execute the analysis under the Absorption method without the Variable(direct) costing.
Please if you have both methods implemented, please let me know how you did it?
Kinds regards!

Hi,
Yes. This Variable/direct/Marginal Costing is possible in SAP. All you have to do is to create a Profitability Report. First you need to deduct all variable costs from the Revenue to arrive at the contribution/Gross Margin. And then, you need to deduct Fixed costs from the Contribution to get the Profit. You can also find breakeven point and breakeven volume for the business. The only challenge is to segregate the costs into variable and fixed as accurately as possible.
Trust this helps to a large extent,
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How to bring the labour cost into costestimate

Hi friends,
How to bring the labour cost into costing run, please let us know. i have given the configuration settings but i am not able to get the accurate result. so friends please help me on this.
where were i have to give the config settings and the links please tell me.

Dear,
The cost sheet format is,
1. Material cost,
*2. Labour cost -
SPRO -> Controlling -> Product Cost Controlling -> Product Cost Planning -> Basic Settings for Material Costing -> Overhead -> Costing Sheet: Components -> Define Calculation Bases*
1. Here just check whether you have assigned the Labour cost Cost elements with Labour group or not.
2. T Code - OKTZ : Check whether you have assigned the Cost elemnts here or not
3. Labour cost is based on : Activity types and Cost center figures updation in KP26
Let us know if you still need any help
Thanks
Edited by: nkonnipati on Feb 15, 2012 4:01 PM

How can i calculate my planned and actual labour cost with fields from tab

Hi,
i want to calculate my planned labour cost for all operations in my production order. how can i retrive form the tables and how the actual planned cost gets calcualted. where can i see the overhed calcualtion of the material and labour.
please suggest.
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madan

Hi,
Planned cost is nothing but the Standard values which you give for each opearation in the routing.
The actual values from the confirmation for production order
The following table and fields you can get the values
PLPO, AFVC - look for setup time,labor time,machine time fields
AFRU - look for the required fields setup,labor,mcahine time etc
Thanks and regards
Murugesa

How to calculate labour cost ?

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              In my scenario one operation i.e. winding. in winding operation i have take set up time 12 hr. , machine time 48 hr., and labour time is 48 hr.as per calculation system show correct cost for that order. but in that operation i have used three (3) labour but in production order cost view only one (1) labour cost showing. how the three labour cost is showing.
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Hi Parag........
Is your per hour cost for labour is fixed?
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Actual Labour Costs against production order

Hi,
I am currently getting some production orders with no labour costs coming through. We use Activity Types maintained within Routings to capture the labour cost.
I have checked that the Activity Type and Routing details are linked correctly. But when i view the cost analysis in the production order the "Total actual Costs" field is blank.
When i view the "operation" details in the production order and look at the tab "Qty/Activities" i can see the actual labour confirmed in hours but the "Activity Type"field in this tab is empty. I'm assuming that this is why there is no labour cost in the cost analysis view.
The order has been confirmed correctly and the Activity Type is valid with the correct values. The work centre is maintained in the Routing and the same work centre is used in the production order.
I would appreciate any help.
Many Thanks
Nisar

There are 3 cost variants in play that calculate labor costs- each with their own rules (ususally very similar)
there is the Variant for the cost estimate (with qty structure)
there is a production order PLAN variant
there is a production order ACTUAL variant
For the production order the variants are visible on the Control data tab.
Each of these variants has a "valuation variant" to define the method to caclulate activity
Questions:
in the cost analysis, is the PLAN labor cost empty also? If yes, then the activity is priced and and the Plan variant is working.
Does the material have a released cost estimate and a labor component? if yes then the activity is priced and the std valuation variant is working.
If you get one or two yeses - someone needs to review the other valuation variants (OPN2)
If there are no yes, someone in CO should be reviewing their masterdata, activity pricing and valuation configuration.

Direct labour cost

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