Special procurement keys

Excerpt from SAP S/4HANA Product Cost Planning – Costing with Quantity Structure by Tom King.

Keeping reading in SAP S/4HANA Product Cost Planning – Costing with Quantity Structure.

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

Author Tom King is a graduate of Northwestern University and recently retired as a senior business analyst with a focus in controlling and product costing. He has more than 10 years of experience with the SAP FI-CO modules, primarily as an internal consultant. Prior to that, he was involved with the modeling and design of an Activity Based Costing system using a different ERP system for his company’s European operations. He has spoken at conferences on several CO module topics and is the author of Practical Guide to SAP® CO Templates, SAP S/4HANA Product Cost Planning Configuration and Master Data, and SAP S/4HANA Product Cost Planning – Costing with Quantity Structure.