Releasing Standard Cost Estimate

Is it possible to release a cost estimate of a product more than once in a month ? If yes, please provide me clues.

It is based on the no. of times the costing run you did. If any change in the cost /prices and if it requries....then rerun is compulsory.
Normally, releasing happend at the end, after checking all the data. because if any thing found extra/new in the materials.
VVR

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Can we use two costing variants for standards cost estimate release.

Hi,
We have 2 plants (plant 5100 and plant 5200) under company code 5000.
We have run standard cost estimate(CK11N) for material 98001000027 at plant 5100 using costing variant ZG01 and at plant 5200 using costing variant ZG02. First, we released standard cost estimate (CK24) for this materia at plant 5100 and set (in marking allowance) costing variant ZG01 and costing version 01. Next time when we are trying to release the standard cost estimate for the same material for plant 5200, it is automatically picking ZG01 as costing variant in marking allowance and it is not allowing to change the costing variant to ZG02 saying Company code 5000: Release already carried out, cancellation not possible, Message no. CK797.
Is it possible to use two different costing variants for release of standard cost estimate for a material at two different plants at the same company code? If so how?
Please suggest.
Thanks,
Bijay

Hi,
Thanks for your reply again.
What is the benefit of assigning "Single Valuation Variant same to different Plants" ? In costing variant also we can assign maximum only one valuation variant and this valuation variant will default for all the plants, and hence I dont think it is necessary to assign same valuation variant to different plants.
My issue is :
Example: ( Standard Cost Estimate for material 98001000027)
Plant - 1
Material Cost                                             Rs.100
Labour Cost                                               Rs.50
Overheads (10% of Labour Cost)                  Rs.5
(say ,through costing sheet - 1)
Total Standard Cost Estimate                      Rs.155
Plant - 2
Material Cost                                             Rs.150
Labour Cost                                               Rs.100
Overheads (20% of Labour Cost)                  Rs.20
(say, through costing sheet - 2)
Total Standard Cost Estimate                      Rs.270
Now, Please explain why we cannot have two Standard Cost Estimates for a material at two different plants? If it is possible to have two standard cost estimates for a material at two different plants, how to take care of overheads (rate of which varies) at two different plants (plant - 1 > 10% and plant- 2>20%) as we can assign maximum one costing sheet to a valuation variant variant?
How to map the system so as to meet the above requirement?
Thanks,
Bijay

Re:No release of production order without standard cost estimate

Hello Experts
I do not want to release any production order without standard cost estimate
I have come acroos the same problem raised by some other users and can you please suggest how to achieve this?
Is there any way to achieve this without user exit?
Thanks and Regards
Subbu

Hello Subbu,
In this case, you need to put the status as "B4" Blocked in costing 1 view of material master, when you create the costing view and change it to "03" status when you released the cost estimate.
Please note that this field can be overwritten in MRP view also. Hence please get the good control of material master and good coordination with PP team to achive this.
Please let me know if you require any clarifications.
Thank you,
Regards,
Santosh
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No release of production order without standard cost estimate

Hi All,
I have an requirement, that is production order for a material should not be released or saved if standard cost estimate for that period is not released. Basically it should not allow to release or save the production for that material, is SCE is not run for that period. I tried various options, i also overheard its possible through user exit and many people have succeed in that.
Has anybody overcome this problem, please do let me know. And which user exit??
Thanks in advance
With Best Regards
GJ.

Hi...
I have faced the same problem in my previous project. What i have instructed to my client is to take control of Master data and put the status as "03" Blocked for movement till the statndard cost is released for this material.
You can relase the status to "E2" in Cross Plant Status Field in Costing one view once the cost estimate is released for the material.
I hope this works for you.
Please let me know if you require any fruther information.
Thank you,
Regards,
Santosh
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Issue with Standard Cost estimates / Material Ledger

Background:
We have been using SAP for the last 5 years with Material Ledger active. Due to a number of reasons, we have not revised its standard cost estimates from 2001 till now. This means that at month end, we do not mark and release prices as recommended, nor do we mark prices and use dynamic release.
What Happened:
A new material called PFSW3 was made. This is a FERT. Before production
could start my team released the standard cost estimate for this material. Production was now able to proceed without problem. Then, when the time came to sell the material (VF02), SAP again raised the error 'cost estimate not found'. On checking the standard price in MM03, we discovered that the future cost estimate was missing. So we created and marked a new cost estimate in the middle of February 2007.
Problem:
When the first sale took place, SAP released the marked cost estimate and posted a Price Change document to adjust for the new standard cost. I understand this was due to dynamic release. Now, when month end came, the system settled all the production orders of material PFSW3 but did not do multi level costing on it.
Internal Investigation:
My team has determined that the material PFSW3 has price determination 2 set by mistake. All our other production materials (HALB and FERT) are
set to price determination 3 in the material master (accounting view).
Questions:
To sum this situation up,
we need to know why the material PFSW3 was not marked closed in its period status (CKM3) at the time of closing through CKMLCP?
What are the implications of not closing this material in Feb 2007 (current period status is showing 'Quantities and values entered')?
How can we close this material this month?
The future cost estimate is again missing for PFSW3 in March 2007 and I
fear we are going to face more problems as this material is sold to customers.
Please respond this is an urgent issue.

Dear Shumyl,
Please, have a look at Note 645083 - Material period status set to "Closing Entry Completed" that might help to closing your material in previous period.
Hope it will be useful.
Regards,
Flaviano.

Material ledger and standard cost estimate

Hi Gurus,
When standard cost estimate is done in a scenario, where material ledger is activated, does the entire stock get revaluated andl post a credit in my P/L? Is it possible to keep my inventory(FG and SFG) at periodic unit price ie at the actual manufacturing price over a longer period say 3 years? Please fill this gap in my understanding.
Best regards
Vimal

Hi Vimal,
Material ledger uses the standard price as 'preliminary price' always during the current month, independent of the question if a new standard price was estimated and released.
But: After period end, when the actual price is calculated the posting will adjust the inventory and P/L accounts to the actual price, with posting date in the recent period.
That means if you have a material that was manufactured once and then consumed over a 3 year period, and during that period you calculate the same material in a standard cost estimate with changing results, that would mean: Looking back at any month during the 3 years the consumption and stock values will be valued at the actual price of manufacturing. But during the currently open period it will always be valuated at the price of the last released cost estimate.
I hope I understood your scenario correct...
Best regards, Udo

Sytem restrictions during Releasing new Cost Estimate during the year

Hi,
We are currently using Moving Average Price for Traded materials (Material type ZHAW) with Price Control indicator "V". We have an internal requirement to change the basis of valuation to Standard Cost immediately. Thus we have to change the following immediately before the close of the current Financial year:
1) Change the Price control indicator from 'V' to 'S' in the material master of Traded materials.
2) Thereafter, release new Standard cost estimates for all such materials in the current year. This is required because the business wants to have a different standard cost from the existing Moving average price.
I would like to know what are the system restrictions / safeguards to be taken care of before doing the above activities, since we are doing this before the period-end & year -end.
Your early response will be appreciated.
Regards,
R.Rajaraman

You can change the price control from V to S or vice versa. You might need some additional config for if required to send the price differnece to variances account in OBYC. Other than that since it is trading materials which are not produced you might not need Product Costing Planning.

Raw materials on MAP with split valuation used in standard cost estimate

We have a few raw materials which are purchased from different vendors and of different brands. We have opened split valuations for these raw materials. These raw materials are later used in manufacture of different finished goods. We use MAP for raw materials and Std. for finished goods. What configuration and processing steps will be required to run standards cost estimate and what will be standard price for a finished good considering the following example:
Material X is finished good
Raw Material A with split valuation @ USD 5 (brand aplha) & USD 10 (brand beta)
Raw Material B without split valuation @ USD 1
It is expected that we used brand aplha 60% of the time and brand beta 40% of the time and production batch size is usually 100 Kg.
Please reply
Edited by: Chris SAP on Sep 29, 2011 7:56 AM

hi chris
Hope you have configured the material A for split valuation. while calculating standard cost estimate for the material C. through ck11n, the system will pick up the header price from material master.
But here you are saying that you have chances of using the material A, 60% of brand alpha and 40% brand beta
Instead of using split valuation use mixed costing concept. create the material A with separate Ids and create two boms one with alpha and the other with beta.
create procurement alternative in CK91N and mixed ratio with Ck94 and release the mixed cost estimate
please go through this thread also
Re: Difference between Split Valuation and Mixed Costing
Krishna

In running standard Cost Estimate, System is selecting wrong selection ID

We have two Process in Production . one we use Process flow(PI), in other we use Production flow(PP).
Now, while running standard cost estimate for Process industry(PI) as it uses recipe instead of Routing...But system is searching/selecting for routing than recipe.
Our issue is that when i run Cost run for Process orders , it should select Recipe not routing. And when i do cost run for Production order...it should select Routing!!!
Kindly help...
Shivraja

Verify the Routing determination sequence in costing varinat - Quantity Structure determination configuration.
Change the Priority for the selection of task lists as below
ID                  SP               Task           Plan Usage        Description Status             Description of Status.
01     1     R     1     Production     4     Released (general)
01     2     R     1     Production     2     Released for order
01     3     N     1     Production     4     Released (general)
01     4     N     1     Production     2     Released for order
01     5     2     1     Production     4     Released (general)
01     6     2     1     Production     2     Released for order
This should work as expected.

Can we use two costing variant for standard cost estimate

Hi,
Can we use two costing variant for standard cost estimate of two different materials in the same period ? e.g. Costing variant Z001 for Material code 1000 and Costing Variant Z002 for Material code 2000.
Here the system is not allowing to change the costing variant in Marking Allowance (t code CK24) for marking and release of Material cost 2000 if the standard cost for Material code 1000 is already marked and released.
Thanks,
Bijay

For a material in a period only one price can be released. Though you cn have two separate costing variants and then calculate standard estimate with that. U can release based on one variant only for a month. Or use MR21 and update the price as per the other variant
Thanks and Regards

No standard cost estimate found for the material

Hi,
When we are trying to generate the bill systems throws the error as "no statandard cost estimate found" whereas the material is a kmat material.
Actually as per the requirement we should not Run standard cost estimate for any material,we will update the standard price in MR21
What are the settings that i need to do to avoid the above error message while doing billing?
Following error msg is appearing:-
No standard cost estimate could be found for material "300000"
Message no. K/834
Diagnosis
In Profitability Analysis, an attempt was made while valuating with material costing to read for material "123456" a standard cost estimate released on posting date "02.10.2008".
The system has discovered that there are no error-free standard cost estimates released in plant "BP01" on the specific date "02.10.2008" for material "123456".
The material cost estimate is accessed according to the CO-PA Customizing settings for costing key "YG1" under Define Access to Material Costing.
Display Cost Estimate for Material
Display Material Cost Estimate without Quantity Structure
System Response
It is not possible to process the document further.
Procedure
Check your system settings.
Thanks
Kishore

Remove the Costing keys assignment in the step "assign costing keys to any
characteristics" in COPA Configuration settings.

Price calculated in a standard cost estimate

Hi everyone,
Would someone know how to recalculate a price in a standard cost estimate that has been released yet?
Normally, SAP allows you to calculate a cost estimate only once per period but I would like to recalculate it for the ongoing period. Would you have any idea?
Nb: Although it is possible, I do not want to change it manually. I would like to go through the whole process (CK11N -> CK24).
Thanks in advance,
Ronan

Thanks a lot for your answer. That answers my question.
By the way, with the transaction you gave me, you can delete a cost estimate that has be validated for the ongoing month.
Cheers,
Ronan

Precaution for releasing the cost estimate

Hello friends,
What are the precautions to be taken for releasing the cost estimates.
Like any delivery are done and invoices to to made in Sales.
What are the other precautions. Please let me know, as we have to release the cost estimate in production.
Regards,
SK

Hi,
do you mean released to standard price?
1: cost estimate needs status "costed without error".
2: marking allowance in CK24 must be set for company code/period for the costing variant used.
3: Costing variant is assigned to a costing type that allows price update to standardprice.
4: Cost estimate is marked (without errors).
Aftre that its possible to release the cost estimate to S-price.
best regards, Christian

Kindly Explain the Process of Releasing Standard Cost

Hello SAP Gurus....,
Kindly Explain the Process of Releasing Standard Cost..
Thank you very much!

Hi,
Once you save cost estimate without error, then you need to run ck24 .
Check marking allowance is given for company code for current period.
then first mark the material/s,plant/s to be mark & execute in test . it will show number of materials sucessfully marked. & remove test run & execute.
Then release cost by clickin on release button for same selection.
regards,
Deepak

CK40N Error Message : CK 771 "Future standard cost estimate is locked"

Hi Gurus,
Good Day!
May i request your expertise regarding this matter. During the release of costing run, some of the materials had an error. Please see below example. I am wondering what might have caused this and what happened as 2 days after, this error was not encountered anymore after trying to release again.
Msg.typ     Material     Plnt     Area     MsgNo     Message Text
E     35001405     SC01     CK     771     Future standard cost estimate is locked
E     360000659     SC01     CK     771     Future standard cost estimate is locked
E     360000671     SC01     CK     771     Future standard cost estimate is locked
E     360000684     SC01     CK     771     Future standard cost estimate is locked
Appreciate your feedback.
Please let me know if there are any further information needed.

Costing date is from 08-Feb-2011 to 31-March-2011.
Note that this is the costing date set to all materials but only few had the error.
Appreciate your response.
Let me know if there is anything more needed.

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