GRN not getting posted with Sale Order costing value

[Former Member]

Dear Experts,

I am new to Sale order costing and we are facing a problem in Production server. Till last month end (March'15) all the GRNs were getting posted with the values as per the sales order costing but from April onwards it is posting the values as per the cost of the materials in the Production BoM components.

This is happening only with those sales orders which are costed in April. If any GRN is posted in April against a Sales order item which was costed in March, we are not facing any issue.

On 2nd April, we executed KP97 to copy the planned values for the Activities across all the cost centers. Apart from this we didnt do any other CO related activity. I assume this has no impact on the mentioned issue. Do I need to do any year end activity specific to the Product costing scenarios..

I checked the forum for similar posts and one of the posts says we need to check the requirement class settings (w/o valuation strategy). I checked it and there is no problem with this. The check box for w/o valuation strategy is not selected.

Thanks in Advance

Suresh

[Former Member]

Dear All,

Thanks to everyone for your valuable inputs.

The issue got resolved but not able to find the real reason.

Will give an update if I am able to find any solution

Thanks

Suresh

[Former Member]

Hi Suresh,

only marked sales order cost estimates will be considered for GR valuation. If you start costing manually you have to use the marking function (when system displays the cost estimate). Please see note 1531884 which improves handling in this scenario.

There was also an error which reset the costing state from VO to KA - so please also have a look at note 1548608.

Regards,
  Johannes

[sean_xiao]

Hi Suresh,

Sales order cost estimate should have higher priority than production order cost estimate. This is mentioned in SAP note 520000.

One point I can think about is that the Sales order cost estimate should have status VO(marked without error) before the first GRN or order settlement. Please check if this is the case.

Once GRN is done, the price is fixed and can only be changed by MR21.

Regards,

Sean

[Former Member]

Hi Suresh,

Please check the settlement profile. Is your order getting valuated at SDI level?

Regards,

Keshava Kumar.

[rajneesh_saxena]

Hi Suresh

Kindly check what requirement type is picked up in the order line item. You can check this from procurement tab.

Then check at OVZH, what requirement class is assigned and then check the settings of this reqirement class whether 'w/o val strt.' box is ticked. It should be unticked.

Rajneesh

[Former Member]

Hi Rajneesh,

Thanks for your reply, i checked them and it is unticked..

Suresh

[Former Member]

Can somebody help on this?

[kamalkumar_biswas2]

Hi

Can you share Req class of your material in SO?

Kamal

[Former Member]

Hi,

The requirement type is KE and Requirement Class is 041.

Meanwhile, I tested the following transaction cycle in the test server

1. I created a sales order and did the costing for the item.

2. I created the Production order against the sales order through MD52 and MD04.

3. I checked the planned values in the Production order and the FG value is same as Sales order costing.

4. Now I made some changes and rerun the costing for the item in the Sales order. the item is costed with new values.

5. The new values are not reflecting the Production order.

6. I posted the GRN against the production order and the values are as per the planned values reflecting in the production order and not as per the revalued figures in the sales order.

I did the Production order revaluation in MFN1, though it is relating to activity costs I just tried to see whether it has any impact. As expected, it didn't change anything.

Do I need to do any step after Step 4 so that the Planned values in the Production order are as per Sales order item?

Suresh

[kamalkumar_biswas2]

Hi

Use same parameters in your costing variant in SO also as you have defined in Production Order costing variant...

Kamal

[Former Member]

Dear Kamal,

Thanks and sorry couldn't reply earlier.

I checked few transaction in April and for some of the transactions it is happening as desired i.e. the GRN value is as per Sales order costing.

I checked transactions relating to earlier months and even then there were transactions where GRN value is not as per SO costing.

Is it possible to have the GRN value as per Sales order costing in Standard SAP? If so, what are the prerequisites?.

If this is known, I will check whether everything is configured in that way.

Suresh

[kamalkumar_biswas2]

Hi

Check costing variant in production order level and also at SO order level in Req class..both should be same..if any diff , make it same to get same cost at both area.

Kamal

[kamalkumar_biswas2]

Hi

Is your SO is a cost object or not? that is in Req class account assignment is E or M?

And also give some more explanation of your process will help to identify the issue.

kamal

[Former Member]

Hi,

Thanks for the quick reply, the account assignment category is M.

It is like any regular make to order scenario where production order is created wrt sales order n the grn will be against the prod order. The grn value is supposed to come from sales order costing.

As I said in my first post, its working quiet well till march end, only from April this issue is appearing, that too only with sales orders costed in March.

Suresh

[kamalkumar_biswas2]

Hi

Pl see in MM03 whether in costing view 2 you have current cost available for that material for April 2015..

If not, release cost for 4/2015

Kamal

[Former Member]

Hi,

I checked it and there is none and its not there for earlier periods as well.

I checked for other materials for which the GRN got posted with sale order costing value, even for those it is not available.

Does it have anything to do with costing variant?

Suresh

[Former Member]

hi,

there is a small correction in the first reply i gave to Kamal Kumar

I wrote "....As I said in my first post, its working quiet well till march end, only from April this issue is appearing, that too only with sales orders costed in March....",

Pls read it as "....As I said in my first post, its working quiet well till march end, only from April this issue is appearing, that too only with sales orders costed in April..."

Suresh

[kamalkumar_biswas2]

Hi

   Yes..costing variant assign to Req class is the key to calculate your SO cost. Please check valuation variant of your costing variant ...

    Kamal

[Former Member]

Hi,

I checked the valuation variant and the material valuation it is set at "Valuation as per the material valuation indicator"

Do we need to keep anything different from this?

Suresh

[kamalkumar_biswas2]

Hi

In valuation variant strategy you have defined  sequence wise ...may 1st one is "Valuation as per the material valuation indicator"

2nd one .....

3rd one ...

So when system does not get price in 1st sequence it goes to next...

Now you should decide what actually you need for your costing....

As I understood that you want some material should be priced at standard cost which is not happening...if so release standard cost for that items.

Kamal

[Former Member]

Hi,

Thanks for your reply.

Its an MTO scenario where Sale Order is the cost object. The requirement is that the GRN value should be same as per the cost estimate done for the specific item in the sales order.

Is there anything to be configured specifically to meet this requirement? or is it the standard behavior?

Suresh

[kamalkumar_biswas2]

Hi

But you have mentioned that your account assignment cat is M..so SO is not a cost object. In case SO is a cost object account assignment must be E

I am confused.............

kamal

[Former Member]

Hi,

My apologies, you are right, the account assignment category is E.

Suresh