Value categories

how value categories will be useful?
why we need to assaign cost elements to value categories?
how to define value categories ( how to give the nomenclature ....for example)..
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Define Default Values for Value Categories-reg

Hi Experts,
What will be the effect in cost tab in MO,if I dont maintain the Define Default Values for Value Categoriesin SPRO.Because by just maintaining Value categories and its cost element assignment,Iam getting the planned and actual cost in cost tab of order.
Pl clarify.
regards
KRISHNAN

hi..
Yes,u r right..without assigning default values also u can get the P/A cost in PM order.But,Suppose u have created 4 different value categories,ex-
Mech Spares
Elect Spares
Civil Spares
Maint Services
and u are assigning all these as default value categories,if ur maint order has only cost against mech spares it will show the cost incurred against that and cost against other value categories will be shown 0 in cost overview..
u can try it!!!

Value Categories...............PM Module

Dear All,
Here are the list of some the value categories............. Do tell whether these are default values or not ?? And Man power cost (Planned & Actual ) wll hit w/c Value category:::
Stores and Spares-Ind
Stores and Spares-Imp
Relining material - Ind
Relining material - Imp
Refractory Material - Ind
Refractory Material - Imp
Refurbished Spare
Packing - Stores and Spares
Stationary - Store and Sp
EDP - Store and Spare
Welfare - Store and Spare
Furnace Oil
Relining material - new
transportation
Labour charges
Machinery hire
Coin Adjustment
THANKS .........
DM

Hi Deepak......
Whatever you have written are indeed Value Categories.........created by some one. If you need you can use these.....
what you have to do actually is that you first find out the way client wants to track the cost.....e.g. he will say i need labor cost (internal as well as external as separate one), material cost (indigenous as well as imported as separate one), external services etc.
Then in this case you can use the Value Categories that are already there & define the new ones that are not there. Then in Customizing you have to assign the respective cost element to the relevant value category.
This will help you in viewing the cost incurred during maintenace in a maintenance order - costing tab from value category point of view. You can further go in detail.
Hope this will help you.......
Regards...........

Allocation of CE to Value Categories

Hello,
I wanted to know, whether we assign primary CE or secondary CE to Value Categories? As per my understanding its secondary.
I have query around my above assumption. I am creating a Purchase Order and and using an Account Assignment category as "P" i.e. Account Assignment is WBS. I am using a free text material and hence I need to assign a G/L to it.My question is how do this hit the Material Value category in Projects i.e. where the Cost Element is picked up by the system to report the material costs against proper value category. PO is not having any refernce to secondary CE in above case.
Awaiting replies.
Thanks
Sarang

You can assign any cost element to the value category - primary/secondary. You will need to maintain the G/L account as a primary cost element before you'll be able to use it in a value category. When the commitment is raised or actuals posted, the G/L/cost element on the PO is used to post it. When the report is pulled by value category, the cost gets pulled also.

Activity type to Value categories

Dear Experts,
Can you please tell me how to assign the Activity type ( like Labor hour ) to Value categories.
AR.

Hi Amit,
Actually activity type is not directly assigned to value categories.
We maintain the value categories in SPRO & cost elements are assigned to value categories.
CO person created the activity type & herein mentions cost elements too.
Further activity types are entered in work center master data and thus it appears in maintenance order.
Sundar

Value categories integration with CS-PM

Hello guys,
Initially, I didnt assign cost element to value category in CS module and it was posting on this cost element. If I assign cost element, the posting in the past will not be updated on CS order in IW33 retroactively. So, is there any way to update these postings retroactively in IW33, maybe some program ...
Regards
Manjo

You must reconstruct table PMCO for the orders concerned by using report RIPMCO00.
If required reconstruct the information structures by report RIPMS00.
Regards
Sreenivas

Difference in S_ALR_87013557 Report and CJI3 Report for Actual Values

Hi,
I have created a Project & booked some cost on against WBS Elements. Now when see CJI3 report it shows correct values but in S_ALR_87013557 it shows different value for Actual-Overall. This value is slightly greater than the actual value.
Please tell me how to resolve this issue?
Thanks,
Sandeep.

Hi,
CJI3 is a cost element report and S_alr......... is a Heirarchial report which will work on Value categories.
This may be due inconsistencies in cost either by value categories or by some other way.
Run CJEN and CJBN then check the report. still the problem persists.
check the value categories in the IMG whether you have maintained all the cost elements that are used while posting to wbs and check whether there is any diplucation of cost elements by the transaction 'Check Consistency of Value Category' which is available in IMG.
Navigation IMG>Project System>Costs-->Value Categories.
Rgds
Sudhir reddy

Value category wise budget and actuals display in S_ALR_87013558 report

Hello PS consultants,
There is a requirement in my project, where the business users want to see the report on hard budgeted cost element group , soft budgeted cost element group and total in different rows. In my project, there is one value category which has been made exempt from availabilty control(for repairable spares) and there are others which are under availability control. Also, the business wants to see all the columns as per S_ALR_87013558 report in the new report per the 2 categories of cost element group and total (but the budgeting here is done as per the WBS level, so how to satisfy this need also). The S_ALR_87013558 report gives the various value categories, but only assigned values against it(as budget is not against cost element). Also, in this report , it is not possibel to exclude one value category to see only the hard budgeted cost element group.
Please help.
Regards

Thanks Sam.
But my requirement is to exclude one particular value category, as it is not possible to include all the value categories in the report as there are large number of value categories. Is there any way to exclude one value category?
Thanks Abdul.
But if I suppress the value category , then it will be suppressed from the central level in PS and hence, it will not be included in any calculations in any of the standard report. Is there any way to suppress one value category from only one report, without affecting other reports?
Please help.
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PropertyChange progress value

Hello,
I'm trying to create a progress bar in my program when a user uploads a File.
I've created a class that extends SwingWorker to upload a file using FTP. I'm creating an instance of the class and adding a propertychange listener to it. But when I run it the only calls im getting from the propertyChange method are two states that tell me when the file upload has started and when its finished. The file upload works fine. I've been reading this tutorial http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/uiswing/components/progress.html and it looks like I should be getting the progress aswell, so I can use it in a progress bar.
Any pointers greatly appreciated.

Hi Benny,
it depends on the setting for the EV basis, which is done in the customizing for the Progress Version. There you can choose between:
- cost plan (annual values, per periods) e.g. via transaction CJR2
- cost plan (overall values) e.g. via transaction CJ40
- budget (annual values)
- budget (overall values)
The calculation of the BCWS and BCWP is done for each object. This means that the budget/planned costs from the relevant object are used for the calculation of the Earned Value. So if there is a POC for this object, but no budget or planned costs, then the EVs will be zero.
Besides this you should check whether this is just a reporting problem. Therefore you should check whether there are entries in table COSB with value type 'P1' and/or 'P2' for the relevant objects. If there are entries then check whether there are corresponding entries in table RPSCO (Project Info Database) with the same value types.
If these entries are missing, check the assignment to value categories of the cost elements that you have maintained for the Progress Analysis (cost elements can be found in IMG Project System -> Progress -> Progress Analysis -> Maintain Assignment Of Cost Element Group).
The assignment of cost elements to value categories can be done via transaction OPI2.
I hope that these informations will help you.
Kind regards,
Dirk

Value Catagory

How the value catagories updates Project cost report if cost elements are assigned in value catagories.Can anybody explain me in detail?
Thanks,
Sudhir

Hi Sudhir,
As you rightly mentioned value categories are defined and assigned cost elements (primary or secondary).
Now suppose there is a goods receipt, so the primary cost element for external material is charged and hence the cost info rests on the Value category External Procurement. Value category brings the cost to the network order on which the procurement was initiated and hence to the WBS/Project as assigned.
Similar is the case using secondary cost elements.
regards
Vikas
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Planned cost correct in value category, problem in actual cost after GI

Hi,
I have maintained cost elements for value categories for material. The cost comes correctly under value category. After doing good issue of this material. The cost comes in maintenance order actual cost. But it does not appear under value category expected (it should fall in same value category as planned cost). Please suggest on this.
Regards,
Vijay

Hi,
The value category / cost elements combination is corret & this is the reason why the cost comes in proper value category in planned cost when the material is reserved.
But when the material is issued, it does not come in same value category under actual cost head.
I believe there are no different settings for planned cost & actual cost related to value category & cost element.
In my understanding, if the cost comes in planned cost then it should come in same value category in actual cost.
Please correct if I am wrong.
Thanks

Value category and description for maintenance costs

Does anyone know how I can get the value category and description and tie it to our cost data coming from tables COSP & COSS? I tried going to PMCO but there can be several entries say for labor, services and you have no way of knowing which entry belongs to what type of cost.
thanks!

Hi,
the value categories + texts are in TPIR2 + TPIR2T. Since you are working with PM, you need to set APPL = PM. And you need to set the correct controlling area. To map the cost elements (COSP, COSS are based on cost elements) to value categories you need to analyze table TPIK3.
Besides I think that the costs for PM orders are also saved to table PMCO. So reading this instead of COSP, COSS might be easier.
Regards,
Thorsten

Missing BCWS Qty values in CNE5

Hi
I have run CNE1 for my project and then executed CNE5 to view the results
I can see that BCWS costs and BCWP costs have all been calculated correctly and are output correctly in CNE5.
However the fields BCWS Qty and BCWP Qty are all blank
Does anyone know why this is?
How can I ensure that BCWS Qty and BCWP Qty values are displayed in CNE5
Thanks
Steve

Hi
I got the BCWS Qty / BCWP Qty & BAC Qty to work by adding a UoM of H on the value category used for EVM
I also got the ACWP Qty to work by adding the UoM H to the value categories used for labour
I also ran CJEN, re-copied the plan costs between Plan version (using CJ9FS) and then ran CNE1 for the project
BCWS / BCWP / BAC & ACWP Qty's are now all populated
Hope this helps others
Regards
Steve

Value category customizing - ps

hi ps experts,
pl help in let me know how to customise value category in ps.
thanx & regards
Srihari

Hi,
To begin with:
We need atleast 4 Value categories:
1. Tcode: OPI1
Maintain 4 value categories e.g. 1300,1301,1302,400 and 410
For 1300, 1301, 1302 Select statistical key figure with total values.
For 400 select Costs.
For 410 Select Revenues.
2. Tcode KAH2: Create Cost element Groups.
e.g PSCost: assigne all the cost relvent cost elements to this group
PSREV: Assign all the revenue relevent cost elements to this group (Cost element category:11)
Step:3 Tcode:OPI2.
Assign PScost to 400
Assigne PSRev to 410
3. Tcode CJVC, Check consistency for the value categoy assignments
4.Tcode KK01: Create statistical Key figure. e.g 10, 20,30 for the Controlling area.
5. Tcode OPI5:
Assign these 10,20,30 to 1300,1301,1302 respectively.
For detailed discussion on this topic please refer:
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_46c/helpdata/en/3d/72369adc56d11195100060b03c6b76/frameset.htm
Hope its useful.
Reward points if useful.
Thanks..

Value Category

Hi Experts,
I have created a value category as JPT & assign a costelement (25 ) to JPT.But in the system the costelement (25) is allready assigned to value category Interanal labor.My question is how system will calculate the cost for two value categories assigned with one costelement.
Also in PM order how to do the setting for cost overview TAB so that JPT value category cost also consider.
AR

AR,
A cost element should not be assigned to more than one value category.If you run the consistency check using transaction OIVC, this will be indicated.If you purposely assign it to two value categories i am guessing the first or the old value category will be assigned the cost.
If you are moving the cost element from one group to another, you have to restructure the files PMCO and PMCOQT. For restructuring, you use the program RIPMCO00.
If cost are associated to a value category, they will automatically be shown on the cost tab.if you woud like this value category to default on the cost tab to enter the estimate cost , Then you should add the same to the list using transaction SPRO > PM> Maintenance processing > Basic settings > settings for display of cost > define default values for value categories.
Regards
Narasimhan

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