Does SEM BPS support "Cost Estimates"?

Hi,
I've been given a task to assess if SEM BPS application can do "COST ESTIMATES"?
I don't have enough information, but "COST ESTIMATES" estimates the cost based on certain factors by looking into multiple tables in SAP R/3.
Please remember that I have pretty good idea of SEM-BPS with 2 projects experiences, but, it's just that I don't have enough idea on "COST ESTIMATES".
I appreciate if anyone could share their experiences on "COST ESTIMATES" in BPS.
thanks.

Hallo
I do not remeber that this function is available in BPS. What I can suggest is to use an exit function. in this case as you know you should put down on your own the algoritm with ABAP.
Mike

Similar Messages

  • Release of Cost estimate error

    Hi,
    I am creating a material cost estimate by CK11n.
    Then doing Marking of the cost estimate in CK24.
    But, while releasing it gives errors like present period is too early.
    I have checked the current period in MM03.
    Ususally this problem starts during last week of the month.After 17th or 18th of the month the costs do not get released, accounting documents of billing docs of SD doesn't get generated. It asks for waiting till opening of next period.
    Why this kind of error happens? An elaborate explanation will be greatly appreciated.
    Thanks,
    Prithwiraj.

    While executing CK11n, please ensure that, start date as today's date. You will not find any error in CK24 if the CK11n start date is current date.
    Please make sure that, you are in current period.
    Please award if my answer works fine.
    Vijayanand Sankaran

  • Recursive Loop Error while doing standard cost estimate

    SAP Gurus,
    We are trying to do standard cost estimate on a material and we are getting error because it is going in recursive loop even though we have used "recursive allowed" indicator for item components in the BOM. The error message numbers are CK 730 and CK 740. We are using 4.6c. I have tried the same scenario in ECC 6.0 and still I get the same problem.
    Below is my BOM structure:
    Material 10890345 (has low-level code 012)
            ---> 10867220 (has low-level code 013) and has recursive allowed indicator
    10867220
            ---> 10846733  (has low-level code 014) and has recursive allowed indicator
    10846733
            ---> 10890345 (has low-level code 012) and has recursive allowed indicator
    According to me, the BOM for material 10846733 is causing the problem.
    For some weird reason while doing the costing run for material 10890345, it s not stopping and going in a loop.10890345  and 10846733 should ideally have the same low-level code as they are recursive.
    Please help to provide some solutions at the earliest on how to avoid recursive loop during costing.
    Regards,
    Swapnil

    Dear,
    I have 2 things to shear with you.
    The method we followed to solve the iteration is as below
    1.Config change -
    Valuation variant in the costing variant, we changed the sequence as below
    material valuation
    4 planned price 1
    2 std price
    3 Mov ave price
    2. Material master change
    made all the semi finished goods and finished goods
    procurement type = E,
    costing with qty structure,
    Enter the planned price1
    By doing this what happens is
    when system first start the iteration, takes the planned price 1 and start iterating and next time in the second iteration it takes the calculated price from qty structure till it finds the difference between the value calculated is less than .001. Then it gives the result
    Why lot size is important is, in our case in some levels the usage is very less compared to the first material header qty and system used to stop in between  and not even reaching the last level as during the cycle it was reaching less .001 difference. may be in your case it may not be the case...just check
    Please come back after trying this. this was the only last option i had to solve the issue in my client.
    Another alternative is to have a different material for costing purpose to stop the iteration which i will not recommend as we need to do some calculation for each stage and input the cost of dummy material in each stage.
    My client is happy with the result as the difference between manual calculation and system calculation is less then .1%...this is because SAP will not consider the difference beyond .001, but in excel you get as many as decimals you want.

  • SEM-BPS Production Support

    HI Friends,
    Can u suggest me the SEM-BPS 'Production Issues' Documentation, or what r the major issues & Solutions in SEM-BPS Production Support,when we r dealing with extractors and retractors and Fox formulas, Thanking u.

    Have you tried posting to th eBusiness Planning forum which is focused on SEM/BPS?  It's under the Business Intelligence category.

  • K/834 no standard cost estimate and ke435 costing key 000 does not exist

    Hi ,
    scenario as under we have following type of materials
    normal Material that has cost estimate
    Configuarable material
    Material without cost estimate -prices are updated thru MR21 (as some legacy system calculated the price)
    There are many company codes and use one or more above  category of material. further we have common Material type and valuation class.
    we need cost component split to get updated in COPA and for that i create 2 costing key one for normal and other for normal one and developed an enhancement (KEPC) that check whether material is configurable or not. based on that it assign 001 or 002 costing key
    it went well but failed for material that has no cost estimate and got error K/834.
    To tackle same we insert further logic to check for normal material whether cost estimate exist, if yes then assign costing key 001 else ignore it. configurable material logic remain as it is. it working fine for normal and Configuarable material but normal material without cost estimate resulted in error KE435.
    need to know:
    -at first place why system  generates K/834 error for enhancement - earlier we were using assignment rule (KEPC) where we use valuation class and assigned costing key 001, it worked for normal one and ignore configurable one and normal material without cost estimate. I haven't changed costing key rule and exclusive error is not marked .
    - any other way to tackle besides resetting message class from error to warning or changing Materila type or valuation class as that is not acceptable due to other complexity.
    Regards,
    Atul

    Hi,
    It resolved thru enhancement
    Regards,
    Atu

  • BW SEM-BPS API functions from a Web Dynpro project in Netweaver

    Hi,
    Rather than using the standard Web Interface Builder in BW SEM-BPS (3.1B), we have to use SAP Netweaver to create a Web Dynpro project which accesses all the API_SEMBPS functions, such as GETDATA, SETDATA, FUNCTION_EXECUTE etc. Has anyone done this before? If so, do you have any examples, hints?
    Regards,
    Linda Lee

    Hello Linda,
    let me add some more remarks on this topic from the BW-BPS development perspective:
    I completely agree with Marc's statement.
    Thechnically it is possible to build a planning application UI on top of the BW-BPS API functions and we have some customers that are live with such a solution. However, I would recommend this only in 2 cases
    1. You need to create a tightly integrated application with BPS being only one part of several other components (including transactional UI, e.g. running against a CRM system).
    2. You prefer a UI technology that is not provided by SAP (e.g. Java Swing based).
    In all other cases, I would say that one should stick to the Web Interface created with Web interface Builder, mainly for cost reasons. If this tool does not fulfill all your needs there are several possibilities to enhance and extend the generated web interfaces by custom specific coding (see also several How-To guides in this area; e.g. "How to integrate a BEx Web Template into a BPS Web interface").
    Another possibility is to loosly couple several web UIs with the help of the portal.
    To my knowledge, it is not true that BSP web technology will be obsolete shortly. 
    In general, I would always prefer a tool supported, model driven approach compared to a heavy custom coding. This is also in sync with SAPs general strategy to a more pattern based approach to create UIs.
    Regards,
    Tobias Hagen
    Dev. Manager BW-BPS
    SAP NetWeaver BI

  • Incorrect assignment of cost estimate number to the material key

    Hi,
       While doing GR for a particular PO we are getting error msg that "Incorrect assignment of cost estimate number to the material key"
    First we thought that this error might be missing of standard prices for materials. Even though creation of standard prices has not solved the problem.Could you please explain me clearly
    1) what are the reasons for this error.
    2)what is the soltuion for this?
    Thanks in adavance
    regds
    ramachandra

    Hi,
    I assume that Material Ledger is active, isn't it?
    Message C+451 is usually caused if there are some entries in ML without any entry in the MM tables (MBEW, QBEW, EBEW).
    These inconsistencies can be identified with the help of program MLHELP_CHECK_MULTIPLE_CKMLHD. Correction can always and only be done by SAP Support. So if this report shows inconsistencies, you should create a message for component CO-PC-ACT.
    Regards,
    Antje

  • Cost estimate display is confusing

    I have a cost estimate scenario as under:
    Finished product Y gets received at distribution plant N after external processing after leaving manufacturing plant M as a semi-finished product X.
    Finished product  (at the distribution center) costed on Day 1 = $ 90 (cost of X pulled from plant M's last cost estimate)
    Semi-finished product X gets recosted again in plant M on Day 2 and gives cost $95
    But finished product Y not recosted in plant N after that to reflect $95 instead of $90.
    But when you do a CK13N on finished product Y in plant N.
    It shows $90 in the multi-level costed BOM at the top total but underneath it, the semi-finished product displays the Day 2 cost of $95. Should it not be showing the cost of $90 as on the date of the Day 1 cost estimate which is what was used for the Day 1 cost estimate for the finished product?
    Attached document contains screenshot

    Hello Rajaram,
    The report can be a confusing report. 
    One thing to understand is that the report is reading saved data and values in tables KEKO and CKIS.   The report you see in CK13n is not doing any totaling, just displaying saved data.
    If FP in DC was saved at 90
    and SFP recosted and saved at 95
    and this new cost was not rolled into DistCenter and saved,  there is no way the report will reflect 95.
    It is not like an EXCEL sheet totaling columns of numbers, it only reports what was saved.
    hope this helps,  please ask if you have another question about it
    Althea

  • DYNAMIC SIMULATION MENU IN SEM BPS PLEASE ANSWER

    DYNAMIC SIMULATION MENU IN SEM BPS PLEASE ANSWER
    Hi everbody,
    I cannot see menu "dynamic simulation" and planning function "dynamic simulation" in our company's SEM System. Installation details are so:
    Component version : Netweaver 04
    Database: Oracle 9.2.0.5.0
    SAP_ABA     640     0010     SAPKA64010     
    SAP_BASIS     640     0010     SAPKB64010
    PI_BASIS     2004_1_640     0006     SAPKIPYI66     
    SAP_BW     350     0010     SAPKW35010     
    FINBASIS     300     0012     SAPK-30012INFINBASIS
    SEM-BW     400     0012     SAPKGS4012     
    BI_CONT     353     0005     SAPKIBIFP5
    Does SAP not support integration with Powersim in this new version of SEM or is there another way to integrate Powersim with BPS? I have seen these menus in version SEM 3.20 with underlying BW version of 3.10.
    Thank you very much.
    With best regards.

    Hi again,
    I know that Powersim is sold by own and has seperate license, but to connect Powersim and BPS there is a delivered planning function in SEM-BPS as I read and in "Planning" menu (in screen bps0) was a menu named "dynamic simulation" in Version SEM 3.2, I had seen this menu option in Version SEM 3.2.
    I think these menus are necessary to call simulation model that is prepared by Powersim, otherwise how can I connect my Powersim model to BPS?
    Can be the problem Support Package level or something that is not installed to system?
    Thanks very much

  • Cost estimates

    Hi: All,
    Can any one Please explain the following with its applications
    1) Standard Cost Estimate for material
    2)Priliminary cost estimate for Product Cost COllector.
    please explain them with example.
    your help will be rewarded.
    Cheers,
    Nagesh.

    Dear Nagesh,
    1.Standard Cost Estimate for a material or product  is made up of Materials cost,Over head cost & the activity cost(oparation cost).
    Standard Cost estimate which is done using T code CK40N  is for the Finished product so that it automatcially calculates the HALB
    materials cost also.Product Cost = Material's Cost (Raw Materials & Semi-finished product's ) + Activity Cost (operation cost) +
    Overhead cost,if an overhead group is assigned in the material master of Finished product.
    For Raw-materials Planned price's are given in the material master in Costing 2 view & the price control indicator will be V.
    For In-house manufactured Semi-finished & Finished products the price control indicator will be S.
    Activity cost is calculated as per the operation time maintained in Routing or Rate routing(A Cost center & activity type will be
    assigned to the work center and a rate should be existing for that activity type & cost center combination in KP26).
    Once after standard cost estimate is completed the calculated cost is printed in the material master for FERT & HALB products.
    This is carried out using t code CK40N.
    2.Preliminary Cost estimate is carried out using T code KKF6N for Inhouse manufactured HALB & FERT's which comes under REM
    scenario.Its only a cost calculation but this value does not gets updated in the material master.
    3.SO in REM scenario as per the setting in control data 1 for cost accouting post activities it can be using standard cost estimate or
    else using data from pre.cost estimate for product cost collector confirmation can be carried out that's MFBF can be carried out.
    I hope this will clear your doubts.
    Regards
    Mangalraj.S

  • Cost estimate w/o scrap quantities

    Hi Experts,
    Our customer has a requirement to estimate material cost of a product w/o any scrap, although there are component scrap or assembly scrap percentage maintained for some materials. Can it and How to configure to fulfill this requirement?
    Regards

    Hi Sadashivan Natarajan,
    The indicator in MM02 means do not cost the material as semi-finished/finished product, while as raw material instead, which does not means not to cost the scrap. And I tested that even if I tick the indicator for the materials, the scrap quantity will still considered by cost estimate.
    What I expect is as in below example,
    Suppose to produce one X needs one raw material A and one raw material B. A's price is 10 and B's price is 5. So one hundred X has material cost 1500 (10 x 100 + 5 x 100). Suppose B has component scrap rate 1%. Now the standard cost estimate of one hundred X will become 1505 (10 x 100 + 5 x 100 + 5 x 100 x 1%). The scrap rate is just for MRP purpose and our Finance do not wish the cost took the scraps, which should still be 1500 as in above example. How to do please?

  • Sales order cost estimate with GIT account

    Hi,
    Business introduced Goods - in - Transit (Balance sheet account), so PGI will always post to GIT and Invoice it will get reversed.
    For one of the Configuratble material (MTO) scenario we need the Sales order cost estimate to get the Planned cost.
    When i try to execute the sales order cost estimate it says cost element doesnot exist for GIT GL (WHich is right).
    But with maintaining the GIT how to achieve the sales order cost estimate.
    I tried to create CE category 90 for GIT, in Cost estimate am getting error CE 90 not supported for Cost estimate.
    Kindly help this is kind of urgent req for us
    Thanks,
    Sudha

    Hello Ashley
    Yes, if you have done your settings correctly, especially Requirements class set up  (see the documentation link),  then the cost estimate will flow to a condition type in Pricing, usually EK01/EK02 conditions. These conditions are used to calculate sales prices (PR00) in cost-plus (mark-up) scenarios.
    Link: http://help.sap.com/erp2005_ehp_04/helpdata/EN/90/ba6da4446711d189420000e829fbbd/frameset.htm
    However Profit margin  as calculated in a sales order comes from VPRS condition  (which is based in Material Master) and is the difference of net value and VPRS condition value in normal circumstance.
    Hope other more knowledgeable experts will weigh in.

  • Sales order cost estimate not happening because of GIT B/S account

    Hi,
    Requirement is to have Goods in Transit account in PGI and reverse it in Invoice no issues iwth it.
    For the same sales order user wants to get cost using sales order cost estimate.
    When i run that am getting following error
    Item 00001 : Cost element 14001212 does not exist in CO area 0010 for 10/07/2011
    Message no. KK689
    Even though i maintain the CE for Balance sheet account with Cost element category 90 its not accpeting.
    Can you please help me on how to proceed for sales order cost estimate.
    Thanks,
    sudha

    hi,
    if you give a balance sheet account in obyc , you will not be able to create a cost elementin category 01 , accordignly system will give error in sales order costing , as its not able to get correct cost element in cost planning.
    if your requirement is just to post  cogs to a balance sheet account which is goods in transit and when invoice is done cogs to be posted.
    you should actually use  revenue based RA functionality on sales order instead of assinging a balance sheet account in obyc.
    in this approach;
    - first assign a p/l account in obyc and create cost element in cateogry 01.
    - create revenue based RA and assign RA key in requirement class.
    - in OKG8 for RA category  WIPR and your ra key assign , goods in transit account and give a offsetting account which is not cost element (credit entry in offsetting account nullify debit in account given in OBYC when GIT is posted , when billing is done system will automatically post a oppsite entry in both account).
    -in OKG8 for RA category COSR give the COGS account and a offsetting account without cost element (credit entry in offsetting account nullify debit in account given in OBYC when COGS is posted).
    regards
    rajesh

  • Error while creating material cost estimate

    Hello All
    I am creating material cost estimate of FG whose components are SF & ROH-2. While creating cost estimate system gives an error message which states: :
    *No cost element segment exists for 40103110 on 01.09.2009
    Message no. CK048
    Diagnosis
    The consumption account found by automatic account determination for material STD-PRICE-SF does not exist for the date 01.09.2009 specified.
    Procedure
    Check the cost element segment's validity period
    Check cost element
    Or, if you have authorization, create a cost element which did not exist previously.
    Create primary cost element*
    Please provide your valuable inputs regarding this error message. Looking forward to your inputs & feedback.
    Regards,
    J K Tharwani

    Dear Jitendra,
    Its Seem primary cost element you mentioned is not defined for 09 period.For this go to KA06,gIve that cost element number and the Valid from  date as 01.09.2009 and valid to date as 30.09.2009, press enter it will take u inside the T.C,feed the relevant data and save.
    Now again take the costing run.This time system should not throw the error.
    Check and Revert back.
    Thanks and Regards,
    Jitendra DIlip Chauhan.

  • St.cost estimate in order

    hi sir,
    please tell my problem,
    i have estimated the material cost and released, closed the production order also.
    now i want cost estimate for same product with the same raw material no change in MOB,no change in price also. i want to make repeated cost estimate with slight difference in costing sheet or overhead rate or activity price.
    please tell how to make repeated cost estimate for production order.
    while doing so like i got error '' product cost estmate  is released ''
    i have taken new costing variant,but same costing type and valuation variant have been taken and i have tried also using transfer variant (pc01,pc01) with no transfer and with transfer also but i didn't get , same error showing
    1.i have taken cost type"01-st.prod.order plan( standard cost, legal view)
    2.006 valuation variant plan( plan price,moving price, st.price).
    TO UNDER STAND EASILY I HAVE GIVEN THIS LEANTHY,
    please tell me how to cost estimate repeated same product afer mark and release the variant.
    thank you
    sekhar

    Dear ,
    I think "CKR1 Reorganize of Cost estimate" will be useful for for you.
    Enter
    Comapny code
    Plant
    Material Number
    choose radio button :
    Current Std. cost estimate.
    GOPAN

Maybe you are looking for