Update Functional Area on Secondary Cost Element

Hi gurus,
I'm trying to update Functional Area on Secondary Cost Element. I've created a LSMW to make it but when I run the bacthinput the system give me a message in order to inform me that this changes might need a lot of time because there are several internal changes to do.
The problem is that no functional area is updating, and I'm trying with just an item and the system needs a lot of time to update just one Funcional Area, more than a hour!
So, I don't know if some of you already had the same problem or is a problem with performance of system, because in Develop System I didn't have any issue to update this information.
Is there any form to update this information than LSMS or Individual transaction?
Kr
Jorge

Hi Jorge
I was trying to change it manually in KA02 and there are tasks the systems does before confirming.
This is the root cause.
"Field changes to field Functional Area lead to
complicated tests of the data involved, which
may take some time. Do you really want to change
the field online? "
There is an option to change it in background.
Regards

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Is it necessary to create number of activities = to number of secondary cost element.
or
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Dear,
Secondary Cost Element
When cost element carries cost with in CO, then they are called secondary cost element.
Example.... - Take Product Costing
On manufacture of the goods the cost of the above product (production order) is arrived at accumulating material cost + operational cost + overheads (%), additive cost if any.
The cost of operation is accumulated in cost centre be it production / production service / service cost centres, while booking FI entries.
Those operational cost has to be allocated to production order based on operational activities carried on and its cost involved in it. Those operation activities in CO are termed as activity types and has to link the same in KP26 with rates and cost centre (ie., sender cost centre and receiver production order).
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In CO the production order and cost centre are co object including but not limited to.
and further notes and configs see below link.
http://www.copacustomhelp.state.pa.us/infopak/nav/finance/controlling/301/index.htm
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I am quite green for Controlling.
I have a question need all your help.
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Hi Gavin
Secondary cost elements are like production costs, material overheads, production overheads, they can be created and administered in only CO. These are used in internal cost allocation, overhead calculation, settlement transactions., it does not flow to FI...
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Operational Cost - Activity (Production Order) Dr Rs.XX
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Can any one tell me how to see line item report on the secondary cost element that are used in asessment cyles and also how to display the documents that are generated for these secondary cost elements after running the asessment cycles.
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Hi MKR,
I am assuming that your assessment cycles are tied to cost center as senders, so even though you don't look by assessment cycle you could use transaction S_ALR_87013611. Set the selection criteria for the Controlling Area, month year/period combination and version you need, leave the cost center fields blank and enter as cost element the secondary cost element(s) of your cycles. After executed, double click on the total actual cost amount associated individually to each cost element and an additional screen would be displayed, from where you can select the option to display actual line items report. The list of line items is displayed. If you have the ALV functionality additional columns can be added in the display to segregate the information based, transaction type, origin, etc.
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I'm not allowed to use a secondary cost element in a reposting.
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Hello,
You cannot use secondary cost element. You need to use primary only.
Please go through the following:
DISTRIBUTION =========== Distribution was created for transfer primary costs from a sender cost center to receiving controlling objects. During distribution, only cost centers or business process can be used as sender. A distribution receiver can be a cost center, WBS element, internal order, cost object, or a business process. You can restrict the number of receiver categories in customizing. Primary Postings (such as, energy costs) are collected on a cost center, and allocated at the end of the period by means of the user-defined key. You can only distribute primary costs. During this process, the original cost element remains the same. Line items are posted for the sender as well as for the receiver, enabling the allocation to be recorded exactly. You can reverse distributions as often as required. You use the Cycle-Segment method to define sender-receiver relationships. PERIODIC REPOSTING ================= Differences between periodic reposting and distribution are due to information content and performance. For periodic reposting, no separate credit record is written on the sender for the cost element in the summary report. Instead, the totals record for the cost element is reduced on the debit side, which means that the original debit amount can no longer be checked there (u201Cunclean creditu201D). However, during distribution, the system writes a totals record for the credit (u201Cclean creditu201D). The information on the receiver is the same for periodic reposting and distribution (u201Cclean debitu201D). Compared with periodic reposting, during distribution, the system also updates the partner in the totals record for the sender. This means that the partner can be displayed in the information system on the totals record level. As fewer totals records are written during periodic reposting, performance is better than during distribution. ASSESSMENT =========== Assessment was created to transfer primary and secondary costs from a sender cost center to receiving controlling objects. During assessment, cost center or business processes can be used as senders. The receivers for an assessment can be a cost center, WBS element, internal order, cost object, or a business process. You can restrict the number of receiver categories in customizing. Primary and secondary posting are allocated at the end of the period by the user-defined key. During assessment, the original cost elements are summarized into assessment cost elements (secondary cost element category = 42). As the system writes fewer total records, the assessment has a better performance than periodic reposting and distribution. The system does not display the original cost elements in the receivers. Therefore, assessment is useful if the cost drilldown for the receiver is not important. Similar to distribution, the partner is updated in the totals record during distribution You can reverse assessments as often as required. You use the Cycle-Segment method to define sender-receiver relationships. Regards, Ravi

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Hi,
While calulating WIP I am getting below error:
There are values for cost element 80000 that are not assigned to any line ID
Message no. KJ161
Diagnosis
Not all values for the cost element are assigned to a line ID.
Procedure
Assign the cost element to a line ID. If you don't want to include the cost element in results analysis, assign it to a line ID of category N.
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Secondary cost element with category 21 is used for internat settlement from order to wbs or wbs to cost center. But can we see line item report on this cost element. Or we cannot see any line item report on this cost element. it is just used for internal settlement purpose.
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Hi Mohit,
I hope you can have line item report @ order and WBS element stright away...
for orders use: KOB1 transaction code for actual line items, where you have the facility of entering CE or CE group to find the vaues related to particular cost elements in the order. If you are flexible with CEs related to 21, give there otherwise create a CE group specific to 21 category and enter the group and find the results you want.
same way for WBS elements/projects: we have transaction code CJI3 for actual line items, here also we can enter CE or CE groups
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One of our customers wants to delete the view of Secondary Costs to a particular cost center in Actual View of Cost Line Items (through T Code KSB1). The costs flow to the secondary cost elements based on the activity type carried out. The system is calculating the total cost and then deducting the secondary costs again from the total cost as a result of which the overall costs are in the negative. The customer wants to display the total costs only and not the flow to the secondary cost elements, even, though the data is posted for the current fiscal year for the said cost elements.
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Difference between type of Secondary Cost Element Category?

Hi,
I checked the system, and during the secondary cost element (CE) creation, I can select some of the CE category as follows:
21 Internal settlement
31 Order/project results analysis
41 Overheads
42 Assessment
43 Internal activity allocation
50 Project-related incoming orders: Sales
51 Project-related incoming orders: Other
52 Project-related incoming orders: Costs
61 Earned value
My question, what kind of report that I can read entries with these kind of CE?
Reason: I want to check what has been posted to these secondary CE.
Or
Could anyone explain the use of above-mentioned CE category in brief?
Thanks.

Cost element that is used to allocate costs for internal activities.
Most often used categories are
21 Internal settlement
(When ever an order is settled e.g internal order settling to cost center through this type of cost elements)
31 Order/project results analysis
(WIP in production orders are calculated and posted using this category)
41 Overheads
(Used in costing sheet to do an overhead allocation)
42 Assessment
(whenever cost is allocated between cost centers through allocation method - Assessment)
43 Internal activity allocation
(found in production orders when a routing activity is confimed the charge goes to the production order through this cost element)

Reports for display secondary cost element

Dear SAP consultant
After run settlement cycles we going to display reports for secondary
cost elements but it is return zero balance, i know that when i am trying
to drill down it will get the whole data. but it is not practical because
the huge amount of data that transferred to this report. In the other
hand it will display the data with +/- sign which is not be helpful.
Is there any report to display the result from settlement run on the
secondary cost elements.
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Edited by: Rob Burbank on Jan 12, 2011 4:12 PM

hi
goto S_SL0_21000007 > select as per your requirement > give Cost Element Group for Sec CE and execute
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Hai SAP Gurus
Could any one please let me now how to create secondary cost element in SPRO.
Thanks.

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primary and secondary. Primary cost elements arise through the consumption of
production factors that are sourced externally. Secondary cost elements arise
through the consumption of production factors that are provided internally.
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11 - Revenus
12 - Sales Discounts
22 - External Settlement
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41 - Overhead Rates
42 - Assessment
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50 - Project related incoming orders: Sales
51 - Project related incoming orders: Others
52 - Project related incoming orders: Costs
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