Take a tour of the many detailed features of costing with quantity structure in SAP Product Cost Planning (CO-PC-PCP). Take an in-depth look at how Bill of Materials (BOMs), routes, and recipes are used to allocate manufacturing costs to products. Learn about the different types of special procurement keys and how each one is used in cost estimates. Review different methods of including additional costs in the cost estimates, such as overhead costing sheets, templates, and additive cost estimates. Receive an introduction to SAP variant configuration and how costs are applied to material variants. See how co-products and by-products are used in manufacturing and how they affect material cost estimates. Explore costing runs and how they can be used to make your job easier. Get an overview of the various costing reports and how they can be used to gain a deeper understanding of the product costs. Take a look at the product costing tables which can be used to create custom reports and database queries. - Explore how different costing variants can be used as analytical tools - Review different manufacturing scenarios and how product costing applies to them - Gain further insights into configuring your product costing implementation - Find out about the latest enhancements to product costing in SAP S/4HANA

Take a tour of the many detailed features of costing with quantity structure in SAP Product Cost Planning (CO-PC-PCP). Take an in-depth look at how Bill of Materials (BOMs), routes, and recipes are used to allocate manufacturing costs to products. Learn about the different types of special procurement keys and how each one is used in cost estimates. Review different methods of including additional costs in the cost estimates, such as overhead costing sheets, templates, and additive cost estimates. Receive an introduction to SAP variant configuration and how costs are applied to material variants. See how co-products and by-products are used in manufacturing and how they affect material cost estimates. Explore costing runs and how they can be used to make your job easier. Get an overview of the various costing reports and how they can be used to gain a deeper understanding of the product costs. Take a look at the product costing tables which can be used to create custom reports and database queries. - Explore how different costing variants can be used as analytical tools - Review different manufacturing scenarios and how product costing applies to them - Gain further insights into configuring your product costing implementation - Find out about the latest enhancements to product costing in SAP S/4HANA

Dive into SAP Product Cost Planning (CO-PC-PCP) and explore in depth how costs are assigned to materials. Walk through SAP S/4HANA configuration tasks and how these decisions impact unit costing and cost estimates with quantity structure. Determine how to manually specify unit cost estimates during the early stages of product development. Find out how to use SAP Easy Cost Panning to estimate costs for a new product, before the material is created. Review cost component views and configuration to understand how this can be used to enrich the information displayed in cost estimates. Understand how material and manufacturing overhead costs are assigned to materials. Learn more about single and multilevel cost estimates, both with and without quantity structure. Evaluate your SAP CO options for defining product costs using cost estimates with quantity structure. Based on an example company, learn more about methods for generating raw material cost estimates. Obtain tips for updating the material master. - Delve into configuration of costing variants and valuation variants - Examples of how configuration choices affect costs - Master data required for generating the cost estimates - Types of costing supported in SAP Product Cost Planning

Manufacturing companies need to put a large amount of effort into controlling variances in production. The SAP S/4HANA system provides many tools for highlighting and reviewing these variances. In this book, explore the sources of manufacturing order costs and how they interact to generate variances. Look into target cost versions and learn how different views of variances can give each stakeholder a fuller understanding of non-conformance in manufacturing. Review strategies for setting up the reporting tools to give the most actionable information. Learn some tips for analyzing reporting needs and how to keep the information fresh and meaningful. Understand the interaction between manufacturing orders and cost centers in order to see the big picture of manufacturing performance. Look into the period-end tasks required for order settlement and see how that impacts views of variances. Get an overview of the important configuration tasks. Learn about: - How SAP Manufacturing and Controlling modules interact - Sources of target and actual costs used to determine variances - How manufacturing reporting affects cost center accounting - Strategies for interpreting and managing variances in manufacturing

Because of its complex integration, Product Cost Controlling (CO-PC) is often regarded as the most challenging module in SAP ERP. In this book, you will learn the most important concepts, business processes, and configuration settings. By concentrating only on the essentials, this book will quickly enable you to use it as a supplementary reference guide for implementing or supporting SAP CO-PC. Screenshots of transactions and configuration are included to illustrate written content. This book also dives into CO-PC integration details with other modules and tips on how to properly configure and implement a highly integrated sub-module. This complete and simplified guide to configuration and business processes for SAP Product Costing covers: * Introduction to Value Flows in SAP Controlling * Step-by-Step Examples * Configuration for Product Costing * Detailed Month End Closing Processes

Because of its complex integration, Product Cost Controlling (CO-PC) has often been regarded as the most challenging module in SAP ERP. In this 2nd edition, the most important concepts, business processes, and configuration settings have been updated to cover SAP S/4HANA, including how Material Ledger has evolved in S/4HANA. There is also a new chapter on sales order costing. By concentrating only on the essentials, this book can be easily used as a supplementary guide for readers who are implementing or supporting SAP CO-PC. Transaction and configuration screenshots have been included to illustrate processes and concepts covered in this book, and Fiori app names and GUI transaction codes have also been provided. In addition, this guide examines the integration of CO-PC with other modules, and offers helpful tips to consider during implementation. - Introduction to value flows in SAP S/4HANA Controlling - Step-by-step examples - Configuration for make-to- stock and make-to-order costing - Detailed month-end closing processes

The methods used for inventory valuation have been transformed with SAP S/4HANA. The material ledger is now integrated with the Universal Journal and is the sole means for valuing materials. This book covers how valuation is managed in up to three different currencies, in parallel, without requiring the actual costing functionality. Learn how the material ledger interacts with the Universal Journal and how to configure the currencies used for parallel valuation. Investigate various valuation approaches and see how legal, group, and profit center valuation views can be used to help understand company profitability. Be guided through the configuration steps that enable these multiple valuation approaches. For those who are using or intending to use actual costing, learn how the actual cost is determined and the steps required to set this up to achieve maximum benefit. Find out how the actual costing run works and how alternative valuation runs can be used to provide additional information about inventory values. Review the optional business functions FIN_CO_COGM for parallel valuation of cost of goods manufactured, and LOG_MM_SIT for intercompany stock-in-transit and actual costing to see how they can be used for additional analysis of inventory. Investigate the different forms of balance sheet valuation and how they interact with the material ledger. - Valuation in parallel currencies, with and without transfer pricing - Defining currencies and using them with the material ledger - Valuation using standard cost, moving average cost, and actual cost - Balance sheet valuation methods