Wrong costing variant defaulting in CK40n

Hello Gurus,
I have a strange issue, cost estimate was released for a material with wrong costing variant. Using costing reorganization CKR1 i deleted this standard cost estimate. I checked KEKO and KEPH, no cost estimate exist in that plant for the wrong costing variant.
When i tried to redo the costing run with the correct costing variant, system is not allowing.Its defaulting the old costing variant, no cost estimate being created with the real costing variant
In CK40N for the Marking&Authorization i am seeing an error red mark, instead of the 'LOCK' sign. Any one experienced the same error or any OSS for this
thanks
Nellikka

Hi,
Did you checked CK24, which is the permitted Costing variant for the posting period/Fiscal year?
While marking and releasing the price, a permitted Costing variant will become active for the posting period. I assume, you can only able to mark & release other costing variant in the next period.
Regards,
Prabha

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Materials: M1 and M2
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Kim,
In selecting Parameters we select a different set of materials, the problem is a big red X appears in Authorization column while we try to Mark the cost estimate. In other words The system lets us mark and release for only one costing variant for a company code. We cant use any other costing variant for the materials in different plants that we have.
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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.
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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 :
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Plant - 1
Material Cost                                             Rs.100
Labour Cost                                               Rs.50
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Plant - 2
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Labour Cost                                               Rs.100
Overheads (20% of Labour Cost)                  Rs.20
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