Not distributued and Not included issues.

Question

We have a couple of issues with Not distributed and Not included issues. First, since they are commingled with our variances they do not get passed through to PA so we are off between GL and PA. Second, the not distributed are not part of inventory since they  remain in the variance account.
Anyone have experience with these and any solutions for these issues?
SAP says we can turn off the price delimiter but we are uncertain as to the effect overall.
Anyway to isolate these to a different GL account posting?

Answer 1

<b>Solution</b>
     **<b>'Not distributed'</b> price differences can be due to three reasons:
     <b>A)</b> System applied a 'Price limiter' logic (stock coverage check).
     You can analyse this case using the value flow monitor transaction:
         - for release 4.7 , transaction CKMVFM
         - for release  4.6C,  program SAPRCKM_VERIFY_PRICE_DET (note 324754 is required).
         - for release  < 4.6C: Program ZVERIFY_PRICE_DET  included in the note 324754 Or  directly checking the field CKMLPP-PBPOPO manually.
     In this case, the value field CKMLPP-PBPOPO > cumulative inventory.
     If you still want these price differences to be distributed , you can switch off price limiter logic. Then all price differences are posted to stock, and the price difference account is cleared. You should  decide
     for each material if you want to switch off price limiter logic or not.
     So you can achieve a compromise between realistic prices and clearing
     the balance of the price different account.
     Price limiter logic can be switched off in the following way:
Resetting the price limiter quantity:
          In release 4.7 this is done uising transaction CKMVFM.
          In release <= 46C using the    ZREMOVE_PRICE_LIMITER (see note 325406).
Note 855387:
          Application of this note will create an additional selection parameter for step 'Single Level Price Determination' to switch on/off price limiter logic.
          This option is the better way, as it is faster provides more flexibility (see the note for more information).
     <b>B)</b> System applied a fallback strategy during price determination
     (see note 579216) to avoid a negative periodic unit price (PUP).
     Please check the attached  note 579216:
     If the regularly calculated PUP (based on  'Cumulative Inventory' line) would become negative, the system uses a different strategy to calculate the PUP:
     The PUP is calculated with these priorities:
     1.'Cumulative Inventory' line (no fallback)
     2.Receipts ('ZU') line  (Info message C+ 135 in the log)
     3.Beginning inventory ('AB') line  (Info message C+ 135 in the log)
     4.PUP-price of previous period (Info message C+ 136 in the log)
     5.S-price (->(Info message C+ 137 in the log)
     The fallback strategy is active by default for Single-Level price determination.
     For multilevel price determination it must be activated with parameter 'Negative price: automatic error management'.
     As a solution, you might check the postings of these materials if they really need to have such big negative price differences or if there is some kind of error in the posting or the production structure
     If you find such errors, you might reverse the corresponding postings and report them in a correct way.
     Or, you might use transaction MR22 (debit/credit material) in order to post a small positive amount of differences to the concerned materials
     so that the resulting actual price would no longer be negative. Then you could perform the period closing (which you had to reverse before).
     In the next period, you might remove this manual posted value from the materials (again with MR22) in order to correct the overall stock values back to their original amounts.
     <b>C)</b> Due to a source code error with transaction CKMM.
     The above situation may be produced because transaction CKMM was executed during the corresponding period.
     When transaction CKMM is processed the system deletes the price differences for the material in the period and these differences are not longer in the period record tables.
     See note 384553 for further details.
     The fact is that the price differences are still visible in CKM3 (as not distributed). This is due to the missing reset of summarization records (MLCD).
     This error is just a problem of CKM3 display, because the differences shown as 'not distributed' do not exist in the periodic records. The PUP of the material is calculated correctly.
     This error is corrected by note 838989 for the future.