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by John Jordan
There are three methods to distribute overhead costs to the cost of goods sold for the standard price as listed below:
1. Activity Rate:
You can either increase the planned activity price to include overhead, or create separate overhead activity types. Manufacturing orders are debited during activity confirmation, and production cost centers are credited.
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By John Jordan
SAP Material Ledger has two main functions:
- Carry inventory in multiple currencies and valuations
- Actual Costing
In this blog, we'll discuss Actual Costing in detail:
Actual costing generates a material ledger document for all goods movements at standard price (preliminary valuation). At period-end, the actual price is calculated for each material based on the actual costs incurred during the period. The actual price is called the Periodic Unit Price PUP and can be used for the following two functions at period-end:
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By John Jordan
Table of Contents
- Introduction
- No Period-End Processing
- Single-level price determination
- Multiple-level price determination
- Glossary
Introduction
The three period-end options when you activate SAP Material Ledger are:
- No Actual Costing - no period-end processing
- Single-level price determination
- Multilevel price determination
Here's more details of each option:
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By John Jordan
You choose either a standard or moving average price for inventory valuation. Let's consider each in turn.
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By John Jordan
Introduction
You typically obtain the SAP standard price for purchased materials during a costing run from purchasing info records. Purchasing info records store vendor quotations per material and estimate your plan purchase price.
You post purchase price variance PPV during goods and invoice receipts if the purchase price differs from the standard. You use it to measure Purchasing performance and have Purchasing explain an increase in unfavorable PPV postings.
Read more: Post SAP Purchase Price Variance PPV to Purchasing
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By Stoil Jotev
Table of Contents
- Introduction
- Parallel Valuation in Asset Accounting
- Additional Representative Ledger Solution
- Alternative Solutions
- Conclusion
- Continue Reading
- Glossary
Introduction
Many companies operate in multiple regions and countries and must report on their fixed assets based on various legal and valuation frameworks.
Parallel Valuation in Asset Accounting
SAP S/4HANA provides the tools and processes to fulfill these parallel valuation requirements. Some of these requirements can be technically challenging, such as when using different fiscal year variants (FY variants) in the various valuation frameworks.
Read more: Fiscal Year Variants in SAP S/4HANA Asset Accounting
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BY Ashish Sampat
Several colleagues have asked me questions about integration of MM and FI such as:
- How do postings flow from Materials Management into Financial Accounting?
- How do we find out what occurs behind the scenes?
- How do we identify which movement types point to a specific General Ledger (GL) Account?
- How do you change the posting to a different GL Account?
- How do you create a new movement type and assign it to a specific GL Account?
This blog explains the fundamentals of MM-FI account determination. Let's start with some configuration basics, including OBYC.
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By John Jordan
How to Create an SAP Internal Order Budget
An internal order budget, or approved funds, is maintained at an overall or annual level.
You activate availability control to issue warning or error messages based on defined tolerances. Let's examine the internal order budget and availability control.
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By Tom King
When I was a charter member of my company's SAP FICO product costing team, the first item I encountered was activity type. I discovered that activity types are not cost drivers but instead they allocate costs from cost centers to cost objects. First, in this article, let's create an activity type.
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By John Jordan
What's the difference between process and production orders in SAP S/4HANA?
SAP process orders provide more functionality than production orders, including phases and process instructions for process industries.
When you create production orders, a routing and a bill of material (BOM) are transferred to the master data of the order header. When you manufacture with process orders, the master recipe and associated materials list are transferred. The difference occurs because process industries manufacture in phases, converting initial liquid batches into consumable batches, bottled and packaged.
