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67240 - Info: valuation with material cost estimate

Version 4 Type SAP Note
Language English Master Language German
Priority Recommendations / Additional Info Category Workaround of missing functionality
Release Status Released for Customer Released On 15.08.2003
Component CO-PA ( Profitability Analysis )

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Symptom

In Profitability Analysis CO-PA, the following problems may occur with product
costing (material cost estimate) when you create a valuation:

1. In order not to have to maintain the access to product costing (material

cost estimate) for every product, generally an access is stored via the
material type. If product costing is to be read for all finished products,
for example, a corresponding costing key is assigned to all materials of the
material type 'FERT' in CO-PA Customizing. In this context, you may now find
that no Product Cost Planning exists for certain products of the material
type 'FERT' and therefore the system generates error message KE380 for these
products in the CO-PA valuation:

"No product costing estimate could be found".

The objective is to prevent the access to product costing (material cost

estimate) for products which were not costed.

2. Two billing documents are created when you process an intercompany sale in
the SD Sales and Distribution system: The selling company code generates an
invoice addressed to the external customers. The delivering company
generates an invoice addressed to the selling company code.

In Profitability Analysis, line items, each of which contains the delivering

plant from the sales order, are written for both invoices. Consequently, the
cost of goods manufactured of the selling company code are always taken from the
delivering plant. If. however, no product costing (material cost estimate)
exists in the delivering plant, error message

KE380 "No product costing estimate could be found" is generated.

The objective is that costing data is taken from the selling plant when
valuating using product costing (material cost estimate).

3. A group of configurable materials was assigned a costing material, for which

in Product Cost Controlling a material cost estimate was created. The
material cost estimates belonging to the costing material should be read
when valuating the configurable materials in Profitability Analysis.

Other Terms

CO-PC/CO-PA interface, SD/CO-PA interface, valuation, VF01, costing, Product

Cost Planning, material cost estimate, cost of goods manufactured, KE380, E 380,
valuation strategy, intercompany, cross-company

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Reason and Prerequisites

In Profitability Analysis CO-PA, an access to product costing (material cost

estimate) of the CO-PC component is supported within valuation. The type of
access is defined via suitable costing keys in CO-PA Customizing. The access to
product costing (material cost estimate) can be defined in Releases 3.0 and 3.1
either in dependence of the product or in dependence of the material type by
allocating these costing keys to individual products or to a material type. The
search for a costing key is always carried out via the product first. If no
costing key is found here, the system then tries to find a costing key via the
material type. If no costing key can be determined, no valuation using product
costing (material cost estimate) takes place.
As of Release 4.0, you will find the additional option to define costing keys in
dependence of any characteristic of an operating concern.

The logic desired by you for the valuation with product costing (material cost
estimate) cannot be mapped with the standard means described above.

Solution

To solve the problems listed above, you are recommended to supplement in the CO-
PA valuation strategy the valuation step 'Valuation using product costing' with
the two new valuation steps of the type 'Valuation using user exit' as follows:

Sequence Valuation step

------------------------------------------------
.... ....
new --> 45 Exit U01
50 Valuation with product costing
new --> 55 Exit U02
.... ....

In valuation step '45', you can manipulate the characteristic values of the CO-
PA line item to be valuated via the exit 'U01' and thus ensure that in valuation
step '50' of the valuation using product costing it is not the original line
item but only its modified form generated in exit 'U01' that is processed. In
valuation step '55', then see to it that possible changes to exit 'U01' are
reversed in exit 'U02'. This is important since it is not allowed in CO-PA
valuation to change the characteristic values of a CO-PA line item indefinitely.

The two exits 'U01' and 'U02' must be designed differently as appropriate.

1. If you do not want to carry out a valuation using product costing for
some materials, you must first implement a processing logic in exit 'U01'
that helps you recognize these materials.

If no valuation is to be carried out for a given material, you can change the
characteristic value of the CO-PA characteristic 'Product' to a 'dummy
material'. For this 'dummy material', an entry is defined in the CO-PA
Customizing table in which costing keys are assigned to individual item
references, however, no(!) costing key is assigned. You can locally store the
original characteristic value for the characteristic 'Product' in a variable of
the category 'Statics'. This characteristic value is then available in exit
'U02' and the 'dummy material' is replaced by the original material again.

Please note that as of Release 4. 0 it is possible to also use the CO-PA standard Customizing settings
to define that no error message is output by the system, if no costing was found for a given material.

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For further details, refer to the Customizing documentation on the subject 'Assign costing keys to
any characteristics'.

2. If product costing should not be read with reference to the plant

contained in the CO-PA line item but with reference to another plant, you
can implement a processing logic in the exit 'U01' which causes the
characteristic value of the CO-PA characteristic 'Plant' to be changed. The
valuation using the material cost estimate is then carried out with
reference to the changed plant. In exit 'U02', you must reset the
characteristic value of the characteristic 'Plant' to the original value.

Please note that as of Release 4. 0 this function can also be mapped via the CO-PA standard
Customizing settings by creating a suitable assignment table.

3. For a valuation of configurable materials, you can change the

characteristic value for the characteristic 'Product' to the material for
which a costing exists in the exit 'U01'. In exit 'U02', you can then
reverse this change.

To be able to use the valuation user exits listed, use Transaction CMOD to
create a suitable project and assign the SAP enhancement 'COPA0002' to this
project. The exits grouped together in the SAP enhancement 'COPA0002' are in the
function group 'SAPLXKKE'. For the valuation of actual and planning data, exits
EXIT_SAPLKEAB_001 User exit for the valuation in the actual
EXIT_SAPLKEAB_002 User exit for the valuation in the plan
are available to you. For more detailed information on the exits refer to the
documentation on the SAP enhancement 'COPA0002' as well as to the F1 help for
the field 'Exit no.' in the detail screen maintenance of the CO-PA valuation
strategy.
In the section 'Non-R/3 Standard Programs', you will find some information on
how to create a CO-PA valuation exit using a system with two operating concerns
'S001' and 'S002' as an example.

Software Components

Software Component Release

SAP_APPL 300 - 31I

SAP_APPL 40A - 40B

SAP_APPL 45A - 45B

SAP_APPL 46A - 46B

SAP_APPL 46C - 46C

SAP_APPL 470 - 470

SAP_APPL 500 - 500

SAP_APPL 600 - 600

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Correction Instructions

Software Component From To Version Changed on ID

SAP_APPL 300 45B 1 06.03.1999 21:14:17 0000012244

This document refers to

SAP Note/KBA Title

74486 INFO: Overview of consulting notes for CO-PA

428563 Material cost estimate valuatn: Translaton for posting date

398084

36226 KE273 for actual/plan postings with valuation

144337 INFO rounding differences: valuation with costing

129267 CO-PA valuation: exclusive access to costing

111232 INFO: Valuation for materials valuated separately

This document is referenced by

SAP
Title
Note/KBA

2184953 Date to access the material ledger in KE27

Error message K/834 "No standard cost estimate could be found for material &" occur in T-code:
3018901
VF02

2585485 How to perform CO-PA valuation based on other sales orders in T-code: KE27

111232 INFO: Valuation for materials valuated separately

74486 INFO: Overview of consulting notes for CO-PA

428563 Material cost estimate valuatn: Translaton for posting date

144337 INFO rounding differences: valuation with costing

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129267 CO-PA valuation: exclusive access to costing

36226 KE273 for actual/plan postings with valuation

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