Price of activity type

Hi everyone,
We could maintain the price of activity type by transcation code:KP26, but we must maintain it manually every month. I would like to know whethere SAP could reckon the price automatically every month, or system calculate when we clkick a button. If could please let me know how to do. If not, is there a good way to calculate the price of activity type except maintain it manually.
thanks!
DanDan

The Activity Price calculation depends on the planning you do for the activity. If you planned for 12 periods and the planning data is different for each period, running Plan Activity Calculation will calculate a different plan rate for the activity for each period. This can be done using KSPI and it does not matter whether you run this at the start of the 12 month period or somewhere in betwen - if the planning data stays the same, the system will calculate the same price irrespective of when you run this.
If you wish to calculate the Actual Activity rate each period, that may certainly differ each period depending on the consumption of activity, the actual costs etc. For this you HAVE to run the Actual Activity Price calculation each month using KSII. You have no option. Infact, not running the Actual Activity price calculation will result in no price update of your activity (which will inturn affect Material Ledger or Actual Cost, if active).
Hope this helps.
Cheers.

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Examples for Fixed and variable prices for activity type

Hi,
Can someone please provide a real life example for the fixed and variable prices of an activity type?
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Hi,
Fixed Price are those expenditures which remains constant in total amount irrespective of change in Volume of production.Eg Rent will be constant even if your production volume changes.The activity price calculated for such expenditures will also be constant per activity rate even if there is a change in the volume of production.
Varriable price on the other hand changes with the volume of production .e.g power cost will change if you produce more.the the activity rate say KWH/ton will also change and its price will also change if you produce more.
Generally activities for service center fixed costs will yield fixed price.
Once you are done with planning in KP26.these plan amounts are used for standard cost estimate.when you are doing standard cost estimate, cost will calculated from BOM(Materials cost) and Routing(here you have activitype plan cost/hr.no.of hrs to finish goods).
once you are with standard cost estimate it will update material master.
To calculate variances(target costs Vs Actual cost),we use target cost.target cost is nothing but your standard cost estimate cost for that particular materials(Finished or Semi -Finished).
you can check this in OKV6 T.code.
Thanks,
Rau

Update of project planning after change in activity type

Hello Experts,
we are doing manual activity input planning ( CJ40 ) via customer report per year equal to project dates.
This means if we change activity plan price ( KP26 ) in future years, we need to recalculate the planned values in project system.
If we manually change values in CJ40 after changes in KP26 the system calculates the new monetary value in background
Example: Planned on project 10 Hrs a 20€ = 200€ // change price of activity type to 30€ // Plan 1 additional hour in CJ40: Monetary value changes to 11 Hrs a30€ = 330€ and posts +1 Hr with +130€ price difference.
Is there a opinion to adjust/update the monetary value after changes in KP26 without changing plan values?
Thanks

Hi Frank,
I am not sure what kind of project cost planning you are using. Usually it is either direct WBS cost planning with CJR2 or cost roll up from Network Activities and Orders or ECP.
The system will take AType price relevant for the period. If you have 100 hours with price 20 for Year N and 50 hours with price 30 for Year N+1, the planned cost will be 2000 + 1500 = 3500.
CJ40 is the Overall Planning, but you still can select a year (as a period). In the Overall view you have no button for Activity Input, it will show up only when you select a year.
Regards,
Paulo

Activity type issue

Hi Experts
We have maintained new P exchange rates ( USD >> AUD)yesetday with validity form October 2009. During the costing run today we've noticed that the activity types are not consideriing the latest rate for calculation (completed KP26 with period 1 to 12 for 2009).
Please advice me why this is happening? Are we missing anything here.
Thanks in advance.

Hi PK,
The title of your issue is rather confusing with what you did with your system because when you do Costing run or product costing, the system do the calculation of your product/products based on Costing variant assigned to the product in which plant the product is calculated.
You have to be aware of the function of Costing variant. The costing variant contain all the rule and parameter of how the system get the prices of your materials in the BOM and how the price of activity types are calculated in the Routing. For the point of activity type you need to check what strategies are determined in the valuation variant which is assigned in the Costing run. Please check by following menu path at IMG/Spro:
Controlling> Product Cost Controlling>Product Cost Planning> Material Cost Estimate with Quantity Structure>Define Costing Variants.
Once you get costing variant which is used in the Costing run/Product costing, then check the valuation variant assigned. Go to detail of valuation variant. The valuation variant determine of how the system get the prices as mentioned above.
Let's get back to your issue and what you did in the system. Changing the P exhange rate has nothing to do your costing run directly, especially for activity type. The price of activity type is defined by the "planning activity output price (t-code KP26) and based on strategy defined at "Activity types/Processes" tab in the valuation variant. Is it using "Plan price as average of all fiscal year period" or any other strategy priority defined for the activity types. I don't think you do planning the cost of cost center using foreign currency.
The only possibility of how your exchange rate change would affect your cost calculation if your materials are procured in foreign currency and if material valuation strategy in the valuation variant use the first priority "L" Price from purchasing info record". If the price defined in the "Material Val" tab are others than mentioned above, your change in E/R would not affect your costing run/Product costing.
Hope this help your understanding of how costing variant and valuation run better.
Best regards,
Irhasni

ACTIVITY TYPE IN CO

Hi sap gurus
plz spare few minutues with this
What is Activity type in CO
how will u give link with cost center
plz look into this
rgds
prasad

Hi
Activity types describe the activity produced by a cost center and are measured in units of time or quantity.
In activity type planning, control data determines whether the activity price for evaluation of the activity type is manually set or is derived iteratively through activity price calculation
Activity type creation at TCode KL01 - Create
Cost Centre creation at TCode KS01 - Create
Activity type and cost centres are assinged to Workcentre at TCode CR01
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Srinivas

What are the difference between Activity types & SKFs

Dear Friends
Can any body help me regarding, what are the main differences between Activity Types & Statistical Key Figures(SKFs).
Thanks, in Advance

Hi Prabhakar,
Both are used as tracing figures. The major difference is that Activity type has price on its own and its gets summed up at the time of allocation. The sum figures debited to the receiving cost object and credited to sending cost object. Activity type cannot stand alone.
But it is not the case with SKF. SKF are only used as tracing factors and do not have price unlike activity type.
Example
In the case of activity allocation of Labour hours, the activity type of Labour with price shall be used.
In the case of statistical figure, take the example of Canteen expenses and its allocation between the Cost objects on the basis of head count of each cost object. :
Hope this answers to your query!

Maintaining of Currency for Activity Type

Hi,
Plz let me know the solution for this issue and inpact of this on on other applications.My Controlling Area Currency is EUR but my Co Code Currency is INR and in Cost Center Master Record I maintained the Currrency for this as INR.
When entering the price for Activity type which is attached for this Cost Center.
Tell me know in whcih currency can I maintain the price for this activity type and what is the impact on this ?
Plz it is very urgent.
Br,
Edu

Since the controlling area currency if EUR, the activity rates will be in EUR. In itemization you can display the cost in INR as well as EUR.
Regards
Rakesh Pawaskar

Actual activity price does not exist for cost center / activity type

Hi,
We are trying to upload the time sheet related data(number of hours an employee workred on a project) ect from Non SAP to SAP.
We have used a customized program and have loaded the data from se38.
All this HR data will be saved in CAT2
Later we transfer the time related data into SAP FI/CO using CAT7.
+When tested with a couple of employees time sheets, they got uploaded in SE38 proerly and when transfered it through CAT7 it was properly taking the hour*rate is cost and was reflecting in the respective cost element.
For a few time sheets in SE38 we were getting an error saying that the cost center(100501)/ activity type(EAT001) does not exist for 2010.
Hence we have taken, FY 2010, the cost centes and activity types in KP26 and have given the planned Activity as 1. No planned cost in KP06.
We have run the price calculation forr the FY 2010.
Then we were able to uplaod the time sheets, but when we tried to transfer the data through CAT7, it throws an error saying no activity price exist for cost center 100501/ activity type EAT001. If I ignore the warning an proceed, no amount is being calculated.
When uploaded employee time sheets before, all the cost were getting claculated and were entering into the respective cost elements, but now no amounts are being calculated and it is taking Zero.
When checked the previous years data i.e, 2009 all amounts are fine, in KSII I can see the activity quantity filled with some numbers in 2009, where from are they comming? I have checked KBk6 nothing was mentioned.
PLease assit
Regards,
shilpa

Hi
I never used CAT* though, but the error means that you need to maintain a activity price in KBK6 (Actual price)
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Ajay M

Activity type price report

Pls advice a Activity type price report to get full fiscal years ( 12 period ) activity prices at one for all the activity type.
We need of doing the comparison but in KSBT it gives only one period value at once.
Thanx

Hi,
Execute the following report
S_ALR_87013646 - Activity Types: Period Breakdown
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Balaji

Table for cost center / activity type prices

Can someone give me the table name where cost center/activity type prices are stored?
Regards,
Manohar

hi,
for cost centers
table name = CSKSZ
field name = KOSTL
Activity prices
table name = RKPLN
field name = TKF
HOPE IT HELPS
regards
sayeed

Valuation price with user Exit on activity types

Hi All,
Our customer could have different activity cost for different products even if they are processed on the same cost center, same activity type and same activity time. So I wonder whether SAP has valuation price with user Exit on activity types as what on material valuation, when we select "U" in the relevant valuation variant. Could anyone knows advise please?
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Walter

Hi Walter,
an idea might be to include an ABC template into the costing. ABC tempaltes allow a big degree of freedom in determinin which processes to use and in which quantities. To use the product as a cost driver is certainly not an issue. I doubt that you can directly influence the process 'price' to be applied, but to change the quantity could bring the same result.
See the docu for more info:
[http://help.sap.com/saphelp_erp60_sp/helpdata/en/7e/cb7d1443a311d189ee0000e81ddfac/frameset.htm]
best regards,
Udo

Activity Type Price

Is it possible to maintain Activity Type Price in Currency other than Co Code and Cont Area?
If yes then How?

Hi,
Check with this.The activity amount you are planning in KP06 & KP26 with activity quantity & after run KSPI the rate will calculate & appear in KP26.
Now when you update the KP06 or KP26 it is based on the costcenter only.
Now do one thing even though your controlling area currency is different,now change the currency in cost center master data.Now do the update in KP06 & KP26 & try withh KSPI now check what curremcy it is updated in KP26.
Regards,
Raj

Activity types with zero prices.

Hello all
I'm trying to to assign a cost centre to a work centre. I understand that we need to do the activity type price planning for the cost centre before we assign it to the work centres.
The situation is, the activivty types are not planned for few cost centres and the prices are not determined yet for those activity types for those cost centres for the moment. I'm trying to do lsmw to load work centres and it would not let me assign those cost centres as there is no activity type price planning done for those cost centres.
Is there any way that we can create these work centres and assign them to cost centres without actually doing any planning for the activity types.?
Many thanks

They need to have prices. Maintain 0.01 just so that you can load your master data.
Subsequently you can go back and change them to the prices they should be.
Praveen.

Activity Type Prices upload

Hi Experts,
I am uploading the Activity Type planning through LSMW and I recorder the the same in LSMW and when I am doing this it is saying that field BDC08 for Variable price cannot maintained.And when in source fields step I cannot fins any field for this.
So how to ulpoad the Activity prices ? Is there is any method for doing this in SAP Conrolling ? If it is available give me the steps by steps for this.

Hi Edukondalu,
Normally it is not suggested to use LSMW for Planning Data Upload for Cost Element and Activity Planning in Cost Center Accounting.
There is "Excel Upload" menthod available which standard SAP feature. You will need to create Planner Profile, Planning Layouts etc.
Pls find the detailed procedure below for Excel Upload for cost element planning...
CREATE LAYOUT : (Example of cost element planning layout) KP65
1. Create cost center element planning layout:
2. To insert new lead column:
i) Press New Lead column and select the required column. As shown in screen shot below.
ii) Click Lead column and select name and characteristic (to view both the field name and description).
iii) Click confirm to save.
3. For general data selection : click on general data selection button (Filter Symbol).
The following screen ( Fig C ) appears. Select the fields required and press confirm.
Then follow previous step to add new lead column.
4. Save the layout.
USER DEFINED PLANNER PROFILE: KP34
1. New Entry: Give profile name and description. Then save the profile.
2. Select the newly created profile and press General Controlling. Fig E appears. Select the planning area for which layout has been created. (In this case Cost element/activity planning). Select QUDK from selection list (i.e. the basis for distribution of the total cost over each period). Save the planning area.
3. Select the newly created planning area and press Layout for controlling. Fig F appears. Select the layout to be attached to the planning area and check the integrated box. Save the layout.
4. Select the newly created layout and press default parameters.
5. Give the Version, period from and to, year, cost center, activity (if activity dependent), element. Check the form base button and press overview screen.
6. Save Generic Name of file. (eg. Planning*.txt).
7. Save file description.
8. Save excel layout.
9. Copy the file to another excel sheet and save as planner1.xls. In this file give the plan amounts and save in txt form with same name.
10. Go to KP06 T/Code.
11. From Menus select extras - excel planning u2013 Upload.
12. Give path or file name. Choose the file description and execute. The file will be uploaded in system.
Hope this will help you...Pls revert back for further assistance...
Srikanth Munnaluri

KP26 activity type / price planning

Hi ,
After giving cost center , activity type , fiscal year and period ,
1) How system automatically proposes plan activity , capacity , Priced fixed etc values ? From where it gets data ?
2)How values entered in plan activity , capacity , fixed price , variable price , price unit , plan price indicator etc affect /calculate activity cost ?
I know SAP help is available , If some one can explain with examples it would be great help .
Let us say I have work center WKCN and I have maintained capacity , scheduling and costing tab . I have maintained plan activity as 102 , capacity as 108 , price fixed as 80 , price unit as 00001 ....Please explain how the next chain of events happen .
NP

In KP26, activity pricing will done for the combination of labor cost center & activity type assigned in work center. Here activity price will be maintained on hour basis or day basis.
In task list or order, work hours will be given for the internal activity. Here for the internal operations, work center & activity type will be defined.
If work hours is 15 hrs & fixed price is 80 INR (as per your example), the total activity cost will be 1200 INR for order (15 x 80).
Price Unit
The price unit is 10 for activity type "Drilling" with unit "Hours".
The price applies to 10 hours of drilling.
The price unit is 1 for activity type "Drilling" with unit "Hours".
The price applies to 1 hours of drilling.
Plan Price Indicator
001:
The price of the activity type is determined automatically based on the planned activity and the planned costs required for this plan activity quantity.
002:
The variable portion of the price is calculated based on the plan activity quantity. To determine the fixed portion, the system uses the capacity and not the plan activity quantity.

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