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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. Activity types classify the activities performed by cost centers. Activity quantities serve as tracing factors for allocating costs to receivers, such as other cost centers, orders, and WBS elements. First, in this article, let's create an activity type.
Read more: SAP Activity Types in S/4HANA: Categories and Prices
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Presented by Martin Munzel · Recorded at SAP Controlling 2016
SAP templates support activity allocation in Controlling by using functions and formulas to determine the resources a receiver consumes. In this conference recording, SAP CO expert Martin Munzel explains when templates can be useful and how to get started.
If templates seem too complex, this session offers a practical introduction to creating a template, comparing allocation methods, and addressing common challenges. It also explores formula planning functionality that teams may overlook.
Read more: SAP Template Allocation in CO: Martin Munzel Video
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SAP S/4HANA Finance gives controllers earlier visibility into costs, revenue, and margins. The Universal Journal can capture reporting dimensions when a transaction posts, and event-based accounting can create follow-on entries for selected processes during the period.
Some closing activities still depend on period-end balances or exchange rates. To plan the close, identify which values are available with the original posting, which require a follow-on entry, and which still come from a scheduled run.
Read more: SAP S/4HANA Finance: From Batch to Real-Time Posting
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By John Jordan
What Is the Difference Between Process and Production Orders?
SAP production orders and process orders are both manufacturing orders used to plan, collect, and analyze production costs, but they support different manufacturing environments.
Production orders are typically used in discrete manufacturing, where a bill of material (BOM) and routing define the components and operations required to manufacture a product.
Read more: SAP Process Orders vs. Production Orders in S/4HANA
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Material price determination in SAP S/4HANA controls how material prices are calculated and how inventory is valued in SAP Material Ledger. The material master Accounting 1 view contains two related settings: Price Control (S or V) and Price Determination (2 or 3).
Price control determines whether current-period inventory transactions use a standard price (S) or moving average price (V). Price determination specifies transaction-based processing (2) or single-level and multilevel processing (3), which supports Actual Costing.
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SAP Controlling (CO) templates use rules and operational drivers to calculate how much activity to allocate to a cost object. In repetitive manufacturing, a template can allocate setup or quality inspection activity to a product cost collector based on what the production process actually consumed.
These two questions cover classic SAP CO template allocation and explain when you can use operational data already in SAP to determine actual quantities.
Read more: SAP CO Template Allocation FAQ: Repetitive Manufacturing and Actual Quantities
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By Elitza Alexandrova
When SAP blocks a sales order for credit, first decide whether to approve an exception for that order or change the customer’s credit limit. A one-time release lets the selected document proceed through credit control. A limit increase changes the amount available for future credit checks.
The steps depend on which credit management solution you use. This guide covers classic Credit Management in SAP ECC and SAP Credit Management in SAP S/4HANA, including how to recheck documents after a limit change.
Read more: SAP Customer Credit Limits: Release Orders or Update Limits
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By Janet Salmon · Historical Q&A with editorial update notes by ERPCorp
This SAP S/4HANA Finance Q&A covers currencies, the Universal Journal, migration, Central Finance, COGS splitting, and custom code. Janet Salmon answered these questions following a webinar previewing her SAP Controlling 2016 plenary session, SAP S/4HANA: Let’s Get Under the Covers.
Release context: The answers below summarize the original 2016 discussion of SAP Simple Finance and early SAP S/4HANA Finance releases. They are retained as historical guidance. Clearly labeled ERPCorp update notes highlight selected changes; confirm the documentation for your target release and deployment before making design decisions.
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By Ross Christoph
What Is SAP Mixed Costing?
SAP mixed costing allows organizations to calculate a material cost estimate using multiple procurement or production alternatives. It is useful when the same material can be manufactured using different production versions, master recipes, or procurement methods.
Instead of calculating a standard cost based on only one alternative, mixed costing calculates the costs of the selected alternatives and combines them using weighting factors.
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Make Trading Partner Mandatory with SAP FI Validation
To require a Trading Partner for selected SAP FI postings, define an FI validation that checks whether VBUND is populated. In classic SAP systems, maintain the rule in GGB0 and activate it for the relevant company code and callup point in OB28.
Making the field available for entry is only part of the solution. The rule must identify the transactions that need a partner, run when the relevant data is available, and issue an error if the required value is missing.
Read more: How to Make Trading Partner Mandatory in SAP FI – Part II