Batch valuation. Standard price. Actual costing.

[Laimonas]

hi guys,

I have a ROH material, certain commodity. The purchasing price is very volatile, therefore batch valuation is used.

We do actual costing.

Usually the batch managed material has price determination V2 on both material and valuation type level. 
That is a problem for my scenario, because V2 is not doing the rollup in actual costing.
So. I tried material with  material v3 - batches were created with S3. The problem here is that standard price is zero, so every batch purchased goes to price diference account.  In usual practice that does not seem to be the problem because actual costing sets the actual price right at the month end. But in my case material moves around a lot, is sold, is consumed in production etc, therefore zero priced material movements are unacceptable to say the least.

Next option. V2 material, V2 batches + CKMM run to change price determination of valuation types V2 -> S3. Functionally it gives me what i want - i have a batch with S3, which is correctly rolled up in production actual costing. But the issue is the in the process - when it is to be done, who will do that what are the risks etc.

So. Question please.

How can I achieve  material V2 + batches S3 + correct standard price assigned automatically ?

Thank you. 

Regards,

Laimonas

[KASDNA]

Hi Laimonas,

You need to mark and release standard cost for the mother material. In this way price differences will be built on the split valuated batch against the released preliminary cost evaluation.

This is a specific way that batch valuated materials are handled in a 3S scenario, their cost is not determined with the purchase order but only the price differences are.