
SAP Subcontracting involves sending components to a vendor to manufacture an assembly for you. The vendor returns the completed assembly, and during goods receipt GR, the components are issued from subcontract inventory. Subcontracting is a purchasing process with the manufacturing occurring at the vendor location.

There are three methods to distribute overhead costs to the cost of goods sold for the standard price as listed below:
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.
SAP Material Ledger has two main functions:
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:

The three period-end options when you activate SAP Material Ledger are:
Here's more details of each option:
You choose either a standard or moving average price for inventory valuation. Let's consider each in turn.

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
Many companies operate in multiple regions and countries and must report on their fixed assets based on various legal and valuation frameworks.
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
Several colleagues have asked me questions about integration of MM and FI such as:
This blog explains the fundamentals of MM-FI account determination. Let's start with some configuration basics, including OBYC.

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.
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.