Product Variances in COPA for SFG

Hi Freinds,
I am facing a issue relating to production variances arising from settlement of production order for SFG.
As SFG is not sold in my case and is being used for producing 2-3 types of Finished goods, therefore client wants that the production variance of SFG should be allocated to the FG's based on Sales Quantity.
However as all production variances are being settled to COPA, SFG production variannce are also coming to COPA, now I am not able to fine in COPA if there is anything to support this.
Thanks

Hi
The answer to your question is both YES & NO
It is possible to allocate SFG variances upon FG using top down distribution in COPA (KE28)... However, for that, you should have "Some thing in Common"
"Some thing in Common" means - Your SFG and FG should have a relation in SAP where by you can identify that they co-relate.. In one of our clients, we set up the system in such a way that the related SFG and FG shared the same material group...
So, while distributing in COPA (Top Down Dist), we specified that Variances Pertaining to Mat Type = HALB & Mat Group= XX should be allocated to Mat Type = FERT and Mat Group = XX...
Do you such a co-relation established in your system?
Regards
Ajay M

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At the time of settlement of production orders, FI entry also passed as well as variances are also settled to COPA
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As explained earlier by other forum colleagues,variances captured at production can be assigned to COPA under value field.This assignment is happening through PA transfer structure for variance settlement.
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I would suggest,you push cost center specific labor expenses under new value field,capture cost component wise break up of standard cost udner different value field.
Comparision of cost center expense and labor part of standard cost will provide you expected value.
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I know this question has been discussed in the past, but I have one specific doubt regarding this topic.:
When assigning cost elements to variance categories in t-code KEI1, how do we figure out what combination of cost elements (in the top half of the screen) constitute Input Price Variance, Scrap variance etc (in the bottom half of the screen)? I know the net of the postings on those cost elements tells us what variances we are looking it, but how do we get the cost elements (group) for let's say, 'Input/Output Quanity Varinace or 'Lot size Variance' ?
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Ajay?
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Welcome to SDN!!
There are 2 ways of updating variances in COPA... I Prefer the 2nd option always...
1. Category wise variances (Input Prc, Usage var, etc) - Here, create a Cost ele group, where in you include all the Cost elements that can be posted to the Prod orders
For the sake of simplicity, you can include Cost elements 1 to 99999999 in the Cost element group...
2. Cost Comp Structure wise variances -
a. Create as many assignment lines in PA Trf Structure as in your Cost Comp Str...
Eg: If your Cost Comp Str in OKTZ has Raw Mat, Labor, Overhead - Create 3 Assignments in PA Trf Structure..
b. Assign the same cost elements in the SOURCE as in the Cost Comp Str
c. Choose the radio button "Costs/Revenues" in your assignment line, instead of " Variance on Production orders"
d. Assign each Assignment line to a separate Value Field
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Hello Francesco,
Yes. Very True.
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Hi Jay Jay,
1. check the settings of Settlement Profile assigned to your production order type, to make sure the settlement profile has been assigned the correct PA transfer structure
2. check the PA trasnfer structure, to make sure the source and value fields are correctly assgined (tc: KEI1)
3. check the valuation strategy, to make sure the point of valuation, record type and plan version are assgined to the valuation strategy (tc: KE4U)
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We are using Costing based COPA, which is updated at the time of billing.
The production variances are posted to COPA when the settlement of the production orders are done.
The production variances if brought within the purview of COPA report (based on sales), the plan vs actuals can be compared. However, in case of actuals, the production variances would appear only to the extent of tha particular product sold (that too, to the extent of qty produced and not qty sold)..
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1. Whether system can explode the BOM and bring in the production variances of semi-finished goods into the total production variances, if I drill down only on the Finished product sold. The total actual cost would include the variances of relevant SFG also. Is this possible, if so how?
2. Whether, by bringing production qty and sales qty, the proportionate prod variances be calculated (total prod var * sales qty / prod qty). This can surely be done by inserting formulae. But is this justified from business point of view?
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Edited by: Swapvik on Mar 17, 2009 7:11 AM

Hi Swapvik,
Issue No.1:
When you are using only Standard Costing in CO-PC, variances will not get rolled-up to the next level. Only costs get rolled-up. As per your requirement, when you see the report in COPA, when you see the details of FG and you want to see the variances of it's SFG also, this would be possible only if you have activated Material Ledger. If ML is active, variances also get rolled-up along with costs.
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The ultimate purpose of bringing Variances into COPA and making part of them in a report is to consider COGM subject to the variances. Though it is not 100% justified, it gives you the most appropriate analysis compared to where you don't consier the variances at all. If you don't consider variances there, that means, you are considering only COGM and not taking the effect of variances, which will definitely not a correct picture of Profitability.
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Would Production variance GL account be a cost element for the purpose of flowing data to COPA?

If you have activated Costing based COPA then NO
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RR

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1. The orders are created prior to COPA Implementation and they were settled as well long back. After COPA implementation why system calculating variances once again.
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3.i have mentioned clearly, previous reply,it should not be open orders.
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