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Overabsorption/Undersabsorption

Former Member
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Sap Gurus,

How would you treat over absorption/under absorption in SAP, do you need to do any settlement or does

it happen automatically. Would sure appreciate your help

Thanks

Pearina

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Former Member
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Are you referring to Over-absorption or Under-absorption of Cost Centre costs?

If you refer to Cost Centre costs, you need to analyse why the over/under absorption happened. If it is a simple case of an additional posting after the previous settlement, you may want to run the settlement run again.

If it is a case of Activity rate calculation, you may want to check your calculations, and/or perform a consumption at actual activity rate run, so that the actual activities are consumed at the actual rate (as opposed to plan rate during the posting period).

Hope that helps.

Cheers.

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Yes I am refering to the over/under absorption of cost centers. Do we do anything with that in SAP, the old

legacy system had these entries that they passed for over/under absorption. I dont understand what I need

to do to arrive at the right profit. Would appreciate the help thanks

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Former Member
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Hiya,

I'm not sure what you meant by having run a settlement cycle. Where does the settlement cycle post the cost?

You need to determine where you wish to post the costs from this Cost Centre. If it is a Profitability Segment, you need to create a COPA Assessment cycle using KEU1/2/3 (Create/Change/Display)

If you wish to post this to another cost centre for whatever reason (activity determination, or so), you can create a cycle using KSU1/2/3.

Cheers.

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Cost Centres get their Debit postings from FI entries during the period. Since Cost Centres are simply cost incurring objects, the costs need to be "settled" to another location for the true determination of your profitability.

Now there are several ways this "settling" of costs can happen - e.g., running assessment cycles, settlement cycles, distribution cycles, activity price calculation, activity postings during the period, etc. All of these contribute to credits within cost centres.

You thus need to identify who posted the credits to the cost centres you are interested in and speak to them about the nature of the costs. If it turns out that these are part of an assessment cycles to (say) COPA, you need to run the assessment cycle again.

Simply double-click one of the credit entries in the Cost Centre. A pop-up window will ask you to select from a range of possibilities. Select "Actual Line Items" and check who ran the credit postings. You can then speak to the person concerned.

Unless I know what the CCtr is being used for, it will be very difficult to advise what to do with the over/under absorption.

Hope this helps.

Cheers.

Former Member
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I havent run a assesment cycle, only a settlement cycle. I guess there is where my fault lies, How do I go about

doing an assesment cycle. Can you please help

Former Member
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Hiya,

Do you why there was an Over or Under absorption in the Cost Centres?

What is the function of these Cost Centres? Are they used to collect work centre costs? Or do they simply settle into (say) COPA?

Cheers.

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I am not sure how this works, I just ran a cost element report S_ALR_87013620 thats whre I saw the

over and under absorption amounts, I am totally lost in what all this means

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