Material Ledger - Inventory Difference Postings ( DUV )

Dear all,
I am working on getting this functionality to work and I would like to include all inventory difference
related movement types. Is this possible with using the follow-on movement types? I think it is, but
would like an answer from some of you.
Thanks and kind regards,
Eric

Hi Sridhar,
thanks for the feedback.
I have one more question. The SAP Documentation states that
"If you want to distribute inventory differences, you must set the indicator distribute differences"
Can you or someone else tell me where to set this indicator?
Thanks and kind regards,
Eric

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Material ledger price difference

Hi experts,
I am getting price difference in material ledger. the difference is in beginning inventory and cumulative inventory. Any suggestion why this is happening. Pls help.
Regards,
Vivek

Thank you Eli and Sudhakar -
Eli - I have gone through the notes.
Sudhakar - after ML period end run total of all the price difference accounts should become zero. I think we need to group the accouns if we define seperate acclount for each key.
I would like to know advantages / Disadvantage if any, by having single GL a/c assigned to all the keys. I mean assigning the same GL to all the keys ( PRD,PRY and PRV) for the material (valuaion classes) that are with price Determination with 3. I will assign a seperate gl for PRD of materials ( valuation classes) that are with price det with 2.
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Masters , can any body please explain the concept of Acutal costing in material ledger i think that involves the following steps:
1 Activate actual costing.
2.Define userdefined names for receipts and consumption
3.Assign user defined names for receipts and consumption /
for the above 2 and 3 points what is the purpose we have to define and assign user defined names in coantrolling level selecting the B+ Procurement and V+ Consumption.
thanks in advance

Hi,
Actual costing is a huge concept. It is difficult to explain the concept in few words
Please go through the following link for detailed informaton:
http://help.sap.com/printdocu/core/print46c/en/data/pdf/COPCACT/COPCACT.pdf
Configuration Points:
Path: IMG>Controlling>Product Cost Controlling --> Actual costing/Material Ledger
1. Activate Material Ledger for valuation areas
2. Assign Currency types to Material Ledger Type
3. Assign Material Ledger Type to Valuation Area
4. Configure Dynamic Price Changes
5. Define Material Update Structure
6. Assign Material Update Structure to a Valuation Area
7. Activate Actual Cost Component Split
8. Activate Actual Costing
Coming to your Questions 2 and 3. they are required to be created if you want your own Controlling level for transactions that you would like to differentiate in the material ledger, further than the standard system offers. Normally we don't use unless there are some specific business requirements
Some key points would be:
ML records all receipts, consumptions and variances for each material.
ML gives overview for each material of the starting balance, receipts, consumption, variance and ending balance.
ML calculates the actual cost for each material u2013 finished goods, packaging.
If a material has BOM, variances of lower levels are rolled up to next higher level up to finished goods, to calculate actual cost for raw material, semi finished & Finished goods in ML as unit price.
Calculated actual cost at end of month can be used as standard price for next period in the material master.
SAP MM is on standard price based costing, ML can do monthly average costing.
Direct settlement of all kind of price differences / exchange rate difference/ to materials at the end of the period.
Once activated , it is not that easy to deactivate although possible with implications like not having historic data.
Cannot be used in isolation : All the plants within the company code shall be material ledger active.
Material Price change is not possible after first transaction in that period.
Using material ledger, inventory in US plant in Canada will be available in USD and CAD
Hope this would help you.
Best Regards
Surya

Select cost center for physical inventory difference posting

Hello,
While posting physical inventory differences (transactions MI07 or MI10) the choice of cost center is not offered. A default cost center is used by the system.
Is there a way to choose the cost center for inventory difference postings? This is useful considering we have several inventories managed by several business units with different cost centers.
Kind regards,
Sergei Volkov

this is from OSS note 13423:
Symptom
Key word: Inv acct assign
No account assignment can be entered when posting inventory
discrepancies.
Additional key words
MI07
Cause and prerequisites
This function is not implemented.
Solution
In Customizing an account assignment can be made for every inventory
adjustment account. To do this the inventory adjustment account must
first be defined as a cost element (Transaction KA01 / KA06):
Accounting -> Controlling -> Cost centers -> Master data -> Cost element
-> Create primary / secondary. Then an account assignment can be made
for the cost element (Transaction OKB9):
Tools -> Customizing -> Setup menu -> Accounting -> Controlling -> Cost
centers -> Actual postings -> Automatic account assignment.
If this account assignment is implemented every posting to the
particular inventory adjustment account will automatically receive the
appropriate account assignment.

Material Ledger for Stock Transfer Postings

Hi All,
I have a question about the way material ledger is calculated for stock transfer postings (movement type 641). I will give an example to illustrate this issue:
Material A has a Standard cost of $10
Material B has a Standard cost of $8
During the month 100 units were transferred from material A to Material B. This created a financial posting as follows:
Credit Material A -          $1000
Debit Material B -           $800
Debit Price Difference    $200
This price difference of $200 was used in the calculation of Actual cost for material B
However, the Actual Cost for Material A was $9. I would have expected the system to use this actual cost to calculate the difference to be posted to material B. Hence the difference used in Material B should have been $100 {(9 8) X 100} and not $200.
Has anyone had a similar issue, or know how the system resolves this (if at all)?
Points will be rewarded for relevance.
Thanks

Dave, I see that your process is slightly different to mine. We do not revalue inventory at month end, instead the material ledger program posts the revalued amount to a reserve account and the actual cost is only a statistical entry. The material ledger calculation is reversed automatically in the new month and the standard price is used for valuation.
I think this might make it difficult for the system to value STO's at actual. I may need to check with SAP.
Thanks

Material Ledger Postings - Contradicting IAS 2?

Hi All,
Material Ledger captures both Price Differences and Exchange Rate Differences and allocates these according to Stock and Consumption.
During the month, when we encounter Price and Exchange Rate differences, these are held on the P/L. At month-end, when we close ML, the Price and Exchange Rate differences 'attribuatable' to Stock are moved from the P/L to the Balance Sheet (or "Capitalised").
This is seemingly contrary to IAS 2, which clarifies that Exchange Rate differences cannot be capitalised on stock. Is that an acceptable accouting treatment for (say) external reporting. Certainly SAP does follow IAS, so I'm probably just missing the point?
Reproduced Verbatim:
"Inventory cost should not include: abnormal waste, administrative overheads unrelated to production, selling costs, foreign exchange differences arising directly on the recent acquisition of inventories invoiced in a foreign currency and interest cost when inventories are purchased with deferred settlement terms."
Can anyone shed light please?
Regards.
Venky.

Dear Ram
Thanks for your reply.
Both the production orders are for the same material, same BOM was used and the only difference is the goods receipt was not made for one productin order. We need to hold that order for 2 weeks. Fortunately this happens in the month end and the BOM is very small by which we could able to find this difference.
In CKM3 w.r.t actual cost copmponent split the value of one number is 4500 instead of 4800. The total consumption difference for the two orders are shown as the price difference and the price is calculated for 1 EA of the finished material in stock.
My requirement is since we have given to stock only one number the consumption difference has to be posted to 1 EA. and the consumption difference for another one should be loaded to pending production order.
or is there any way to post the price difference to pending production orders.
Thanks
Soundar

Material Ledger - Closing Postings

Dear Material Ledger Experts,
I need to clear my concepts regarding Material Ledger Closing Postings :
Standard Price of Finished Goods : $10
Produced Units via Process Order: 1000 Units
Variance Settled to P&L Accounts : $1 Per Unit
P.G.I Units : (300 Units)
By the end of the month, I have executed end to end Material Ledger Closing Run and it updates all materials involved in the production of Finished Goods:
Date : 30.06.2014 (End of Month)
Raw Material Inventory : Increased.
Packing Material Inventory: Increased.
Revaluation of COGS of 300 Units : Increased.
Date : 01.07.2014 (Start of Next Month)
Raw Material Inventory : Decreased.(by the same amount)
Packing Material Inventory: Decreased.(by the same amount)
System updates Inventory held which is 700 units as well as inventory sold which is 300 units.
Now my cause of concern is regarding revaluation of COGS of 300 units sold on which already variances were calculated at the time of process order settlement:
Variance Settlement @ Process Order Settlement : 1$ X 300 Units.
Revaluation of COGS at month end : 1$ X 300 Units (again)
Which causes duplication of cost on P&L Accounts.
Please guide me regarding this issue and work around to solve this
Thanks in Advance !
Regards,
Zain Bashir

Dear Bulut,
At the time of variance settlement, following entries were posted :
Production Efficiency Variance (Dr) <P&L>
Inventory Change (Cr) <P&L>.
and at the time of COGS Revaluation, following entries were posted :
COGS (Dr) <P&L>
Material Ledger Clearing Account (Cr) <P&L>
Regards,
Zain Bashir

Difference Between Raw Material and Inventory Account

Hi Experts,
can you pls explain me the difference between raw material account and inventory account opened under Asset Drawer in Chart Of Account ??

Hi Divya.......
There is no difference between raw material and inventory account. Infact the raw material is nothing but stock and stock includes the finished semifinished product also. In short the stock account belongs to the category inventory account.......
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Difference between Material Master and Material ledger

Can anyone tell me the difference if any between Material Master and Material ledger and its usage and interlink with SAP modules.
Thanks for your time
suresh arya

Hi Suresh,
The application component Actual Costing/Material Ledger fulfills two basic objectives: The ability to carry material prices in multiple currencies/valuations, and actual costing.
The material master records are all information your company needs to manage a material is stored in a data record in the material aster, sorted by various different criteria.
For more information regarding the functionality, you can see in path below, help SAP...
Material Master data:
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_47x200/helpdata/en/03/abb8f85fbe11d396a600a0c930e0da/frameset.htm....
Material ledger:
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_47x200/helpdata/en/a2/5cd63835e211d38a710000e83234f3/frameset.htm..
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Paulo

T-stock price differences were not distributed by Material ledger

Dear All,
We have configured T-stock (Stock in transit) for movement types 601,921 in t-code OMJJ and have assigned this movements types to movement type groups of material ledger in spro: Controlling -Product Cost Controlling -Actual Costing/Material Ledger -Material Update -Assign Movement Type Groups of Material Ledger. We use movement type group CF with revaluation of G/L account and CO account assignment .
Than we have performed operations with T-stock movement types.
However, in ckm3 we don't see any G/L account in consumption line. In ML document there are no movement type group CF
During actual costing run (t-code ckmlcp) system requires COC.
We have analysed CKMLMV005 table data. For movements types with T-stock system puts V_REST in field User-def.name.
And there are no G/L account.
How can we solve this issue?
With best regards,
Kamila.

Hi Kamila,
SIT supports the revaluation to the original account.
Please check if the ML document has not updated the
movement type group CF, hence the revaluation of consumption points
to the COC account.
Therefore, there are two possible reasons for the revaluation going
to COC in the example:
1. The 601 T movement was posted before the customizing was carried out.
2. The customizing is incomplete for the Revaluation of consumption in transaction OMX0.
For instance if currently, there is one entry for 601 T:
601 T L E -> CF
Please, try to include additional entries for 601T:
601 T     -> CF
601 T L   -> CF
601 T   E -> CF
Please, try this in a test system, post the 601 T movement afterwards
and check the results.
Best regards,
MLM

Difference between normal Costing run and Costing run in Material Ledger

Hi everybody,
I have a question i wanted to know why we implement Material Ledger .
If material ledger is for settling variances on material then that is also possible without material ledger
Please clear the doubt what is different in ML as compared to normal costing run
thanks in advance
Regards
Deepa

Costing run is to calculate the std cost estimate of materials and Material Ledger costing run is to calculate Actual cost of production of materials.

Material ledger activity rate revaluation account determination modification

Scenario:
SAP ECC 617
Material ledger activated with activity rate revaluation (i.e. cost center over/under absorption posts to ML and not to production orders)
Standard SAP setup has PRV transaction key used to post both multi-level price differences to inventory and to capture the offset to the cost center clearing entries (GBB-AUI) causing the values to get comingled in the same account
Question:
For reporting purposes I would like to determine a unique account for the activity rate revaluation entries. There is no relevant general modifier available for transaction key PRV. Is it possible and practical to modify table T169A for a specific value string / field name combination that represents this material ledger transaction? If so, what is the combination? Or will this cause major issues with ML processing?
I'm trying to find a creative way to fill this gap without account substitution.

Hi Eric,
This is an interesting one.
Modifying value string might be an option but in my opinion is quite a serious "brain surgery" on the system :-).
You may want to try another option.
In SPRO -> Controlling -> General Controlling -> Organization -> Maintain Versions
for version 0, Controlling Area Settings, Settings for Each Fiscal Year in tab Price Calculation there is field Revaluation.
One of the options there is 'Own business transaction'. With this option posting to sending Cost Centre resulting from actual activity price revaluation will be posted with different Business Transaction (although same secondary cost element as original activity allocation).
In reports you can separate postings based on Business transaction.
It definitely works for Activity Update 1 (revaluation of production orders).
I'm not sure if it works for Activity Udate 2 (no revaluation of production orders).
Please let us know the results of your investigation.
Regards,
Szymon

Material ledger production start up

Dear expert,
we are working on a project that has two main objectives:
1) now the customer is using the mtv 103/105 and we want to move to the 101
2) now the customer is using a custom 'medium price calculation' and we have to activate the material ledger.
I red the note 596558 and I have some question; first at all I would like to find some documentation about this activity and the effects of a Material ledger production startup, could someone tell me we can I find info ?
The question are
At point f) is wrote
u201CYou should always transfer purchase orders and purchase order histories before activating the material ledger. This ensures that the system translates the purchase order history in all additional currencies.u201D
What does it means? Why it is necessary translate? How?
If a company has only the local currency is it necessary the translation?
At point j) is wrote
u201CWe recommend that you close open orders before activating the material ledger and recreate them after the activation if required.u201D
WHY?
The posting logic for postings that reference a purchase order is changed in the parallel currencies due to the activation of the material ledger. As a result, there may be unexpected price postings and exchange rate difference postings for purchase orders that are not closed in business transactions (goods movements and invoices) that are posted later.
Which unexpected postings? Refers to new u2018Transactionu2019 (e.g. BSX, WRX, PRD, KDM, u2026) used after the material ledger start up?
Now the customer is using a custom u2018medium price calculationu2019; we think to reverse all movements in the year (103, 105, invoices) for order item not closed and recreate the goods movement with the new model (101, invoices) after the ML activation.
Thanks in advance.

In our case CKMSTART was definately done before Inventory load. This Tcode was part of config prior to Master data creation and migrated data loads....

Material Ledger Functionality with Non Valuated Sales Order Stock

We are in the process of setting up Make To Order (MTO) with Non Valuated Sales Order Stock. We currently use the Material Ledger in our other businesses that use Process Orders.
Does the Material Ledger functionality support MTO with Non Valuated Sales Order Stock? I have been testing this and have not yet figured out how to get ML postings. We are using production orders that settle to sales orders. We do not bring this into inventory, the costs reside on the sales order.
If this functionality does exist, I would assume I need to configure the Material Update Structure but I cannot find any documentation on this.
Any help would be appreciated.
Regards,
Greg

Hi Greg,
no, material ledger will not be able to calculate and allocate actual costs for the sales order in the scenario you describe. It would of course, if you used the valuated sales order stock.
Generally SAP sees in the valuated sales order stocks (avaliable since 3,1 or something) a great improvement and no real reason to use still the non-valuated scenario.
best regards,
Udo

Material ledger using several plants

Hi all,
I have the plan B that receives 2 FG items from Plant A they make and adjustment delivering some additional cost, both are valuation areas with material ledger, when the stock transfer take place, its moved with standard price $ 100 and with the costing run the real cost from this periods is $120 the stock and the GI from sales are properly revalued with the actual price ($120), not the transfer stock, the difference between the stock transfer price and the actual price ($20) remains on ckm3n as non allocated cost, how this work I need to transfer this $20 price difference to cost of plant B ?
THANKS A LOT!

Hi Sarada
thanks for your time, this is the scenario details
Plant A (production and Sell)
- initial invent. $110 dls    per Ton
- initial invent.      10 Ton.
- production cost $130 Dls per Ton
- production units     10 Ton.
- Actual Cost $ 120 Ton Total Inv. 20 Tons
- Stock transfer plant to Plant
Plant A to Plant B
10 Ton --> $110 Dls.
When ckmlcp it's carry out I have $100 cost as non allocated from $ 1o from prices difference with actual cost per ton transferred to Plant B
Plant B( just sell purpose)
- initial invent. $100 dls    per Ton
- initial invent.      1 Ton.
- receive stock transfer 10 Ton at $110 dls
- additional Cost (freight) $ 2 per ton
on Plant B CKMLP its "ok" because all cost that was allocated to plant B have been take to inventory valuation how ever its under the real cost because $100 dls from the actual cost from plant A never reach Plant B
Again Thanks a lot.

Material Ledger - Inventory Difference Postings ( DUV )

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