SAP Product Lifecycle Costing

I came across ASAG presentation by the title "An Introduction into SAP’s Upcoming Product Costing Solution" from June 2014. Does anyone know what SAP roadmap for this solution looks like? Any information on when it becomes available?
Thank you,
Alex

Hi Alex,
I will reply to your mail.
The solution is planned to be available next year and is currently in the midst of development. We are not disclosing any further details beyond the ASUG presentation at this point to a broader audience.
Regards, Ulf.

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Production Orders cost

Hi gurus,
I'm not sure if this is the right forum, but I'm PP consultant and just starting a new projec on which the most important topics are production and costs so here are my questions.
1.- What is the responsability of the PP consultant regarding production costs, order costs, product costing etc?
2.- Can someone explain the integration of PP and CO.
3.- In my client company I see this scenario: it is a consumable goods manufactory industry and they buy cinnamon but they only make a huge one purchase a year, only in january they buy the cinnamon and it lasts for all year, so on that particular month they have to pay for the hole freight of the cinnamon, the product that uses the cinnamon does not reflect the real costs since the whole freight is taken at january, then in february they have excellent results since they produce the same qty but with less costs.
This is a common problem here, because there are like 5 raw materils that are bought in this way, so how to reflect a proportion of the cost while consuming the raw material? and the question also would be if I as PP consultant should do that or is it CO stuff.
Thanks experts I hope you can help me with this, I would really appreciate

Dear standard values and activity types relevant to cost centers are defined in work centers(CR01) which are assigned in
particular material routings(CA01) and activity rates are maintained in KP26.
Check below links for in detail information about product costing.
www.sap-topjobs.com/SpecialPP/samplepc.doc
http://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/bpx/solutions?rid=/webcontent/uuid/4f0f6717-0b01-0010-949b-9ab68dd45fec [original link is broken]
http://wiki.sdn.sap.com/wiki/display/ERPFI/Product+Costing
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Which SAP products would address these issues

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1) Business Planning
2) Balance Scorecard
3) KPI Reporting and Strategic management
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5) Profitability Analysis & Simulation
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4) What hardware requirements will have to be fulfilled for above management requirements. ?
Detailed answers are welcome.
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SSM for the balanced scorecard
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In product order costing what is the role of CO consultant

Dear Sir,
Pl explain in detail about product order costing from creation to settlement in CO.
I am confused what a CO consultant should do.
Moderator: help.sap.com

What is the exact use of SEM over BW
FOX Formula we use in BPS.
Check here: https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/servlet/prt/portal/prtroot/docs/library/uuid/9af68206-0801-0010-029c-c586c707fc80

Change in finished product inventories / cost components

Hello,
We are in the process of implementing SAP and couldn't get an answer to the following.
Our understanding is that the production cost of each finished product is calculated by SAP based on cost components. After manufacturing, the finished products are transferred to the finished product inventory. The change in finished product inventory account (say 713000) is credited with the production cost of the product.
Instead of having this single 713000 account impacted, we would like to have the change in finished product inventory broken down into several, say 713001 raw material component in finished product, 713002 labour cost component in finished product, 713003 subcontracting cost component etc. Can we get SAP to credit automatically each of these accounts based on the cost component (or group of cost components) information in the system ? How should we configure it ? (is there a link between the cost component or group of cost component and the account)
Many thanks for your help
Best regards

Hi Vincent,
In my understanding you are not clear with the requirement and therefore you are struggling with SAP. Please understand the following:
1. The posting of GL accounts are determined by valuation class in material master. So if you want to post on different GLs please define those many valuation class in MM and assign the correct Valuation class to FG goods.
2. When you confirm the production, SAP post the goods issue (i.e. material you define in BOM) by debiting the Material consumption account and credit the invertory accounts. And also post the goods receipt posting by debiting the FG inventory account and credit the Factory output a/c.
3. Here you have to convience your client that it is best pratice to have one inventory account for one material type, like RM inventory, SFG inventory and FG inventory. Normally we classify the consumption posting in different GLs like Material consumption, Labour consuption, Overhead utilization etc. and that you can define in your cost component structure by grouping the relevent GLs in given cost component items.
4. You have to explain them how SAP works in product costing and how GL documents are posted. You have to also explain them the posting impact in P&L and BS.
I will suggest that you should rediscuss the requirement and explain them the SAP way of valuation and posting. It is a big change management issue and as a CO consultant it is most challenging task.
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Product cost v/s Production Order cost

Hi all Guru's,
Can any one help me in understanding difference between product cost and production order cost in SAP.
Will give full marks for helpful answer.
Thanks,
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Edited by: ABHISHEK AGRAWAL on Jan 29, 2008 9:46 AM

Dear Abhishek,
Standard Cost Estimate or Material cost Estimate is nothing
but the standard cost for the Inhouse Manufactured materials
(FERT) = Raw Materials Cost + Activity(Operation Cost)
Cost+Overhead Cost if maintained for the Company code.
This cost will gets stamped in the material master in Costing2
view,under Current Planned Price field.
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after confirmation of the order the actual cost and the variances
for the production order can be viewed.
So the Production order cost is for the order quantity say for
Eg: for a quantity of 100.
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after confirmation and TECO status.
I hope this will be helping you.
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Role and steps of fico product order costing

Dear Sap Gurus,
I am new to topic of product order costing. I want to know the role of fico consultant in the given topic from creation to settlements complete steps.
what are the modules involved in preparing and who will give which part and what we have to update to that as per fico consultatnt.
Thanx in advance

Hi,
Check this URL: http://www.sapdb.info/sap-certification-material-2/
and scroll to mySAP ERP Financials, you will find good documentation and examples.

Re: Production Order Cost List

Hi,
Now it wants to have a list to show production order cost this month. If having progress report it is better.
Do SAP have some standard T-Codes for the above?
Thanks for your time ahead!
Bruce

HI
check the report KKBC_ORD
KOB1 - Actual
S_ALR_87013010 - Orders: Breakdown by Period
pl check ,
or if you want as per client requiremnt then you need to develope a new report
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Pls send me Business process for this Pain Area.
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Product cost or Product unit cost

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thanks
Sabrina.

Hi Sabrina,
You can evaluate CO-PC datasources in your R/3 system and the corresponding sources, objects etc. in BC.
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https://media.sdn.sap.com/html/submitted_docs/Best_Practices/BW/index.htm
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Eugene

Production order cost estimate

Hello,
what is prodcution order cost estimate.

SR,
Production order cost estimate is the estimate of all the costs likey to be incurred on the completion of the production oreder.
Following is the way described how tp do this in SAP.
Creating a Cost Estimate for a Production Order Without Quantity Structure
Choose Accounting-> Controlling->Cost Object Controlling->Product Cost by Period->Planning->CO Production Order->Create/change plan.
Enter the order and choose ENTER.
The dialog box Copy cost estimate appears. The system proposes a costing variant through the planning profile. Choose a costing variant.
If you want to copy costing items using the reference and simulation costing functions, enter either a base planning object or the material and control parameters for a cost estimate without quantity structure.
Enter the lot size that you want to use for costing, and choose ENTER.
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Enter the costing items.
Save the cost estimate.
If you have entered a costing sheet and (if applicable) an overhead key in the master record of the production order, the system calculates the overhead and assigns it to costing items of item category G. You cannot plan the costs for a production order using a cost estimate without quantity structure if the production order is linked to a run schedule header.
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Hi all,
I wish to get a list of productlife cycle profiles maintained for various products in DP. Any help will be appreciated.
Thanks
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Reg :Production order cost report day wise.

Dear Expert,
1.We want a report for a particular Production order cost day wise.
The scenario is like this Production order is Released for 100 Qty.
Today they confirmed only 50 Qty.
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Now they want to see the cost for today confirmation and tomorrows confirmation.
Reason being daily the Raw Material cost is changed and they want to track the variance.
Is there any standard report we can achieve this or do we have go for development
2. And also i need to know daily how many production orders have been released.
Thank u in advance.

A day is not a controlled cost object. You could write a report to look at costs gathered in a day (by reporting date), but I strongly suggest that if you need to analyze costs per day you switch to daily orders.
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