which cost planning to use ?

[Former Member]

Hi,

we need to do cost planning for our projects. the requirements are:

there are 4 types of costs in our projects that we want to plan for every project - manpower cost, capital expense, travel expense, other expenditures.

and all the costs will be at the top wbs element of the project only.

which cost planning (hierarchical or unit or detailed or easy) is advised for this scenario?

please advise

Thanks!

[Former Member]

thanks!

i found detailed planning easiest to use.

[Former Member]

thanks! everyone

we going for unit costing or may be ecp.

what are the configuration settings i need to maintain for unit costing?

[Former Member]

Hi,

You have to create costing variant in OPL1.

Regards,

[Former Member]

OPL1 thats it for unit costing?

[Former Member]

Hi,

When you create a base planning object, it is always linked to a costing variant. This costing variant contains all the information needed to cost the object.

Pls refer:

http://help.sap.com/saphelp_erp60_sp/helpdata/EN/7e/cb859a43a311d189ee0000e81ddfac/content.htm

Regards,

Amit

[Former Member]

what is difference between OKKT and OPL1?

don't i need a planning profile?

Edited by: Harsh Saxena on Apr 2, 2009 1:58 PM

[former_member203108]

OPL1 for network costing....OKKT is for ECP...yes u need planning profile ...u have to maintain costing variant for unit costing in planning profile.

[virendra_pal]

i would use detailed planning

CJR2

[Makal]

Virendra

In CJR2, In Entry tab (At the bottom of the CJR2 screen), we can see two options. One is "Free" & other one is "Form-Based". What's is the difference & impact these two options.

We can see the same options in KP26 also.

[Former Member]

thanks!

but why not detailed or easy cost planning.

we want cost planning to be cost element specific and we want to use CO versions also.

[former_member203108]

U can get cost element wise report when u use unit costing...and also u can do planning in different CO versions..

[Makal]

Unit costing suits your requirement, where in you can make your cost plan based on cost elements & also you can maintain different CO versions.

If you want to go for ECP, then you'll have to create templates.

Even end user would be convenient in using unit costing.

[former_member203108]

ECP can be done without any costing model or template....u can use it like unit costing

[Former Member]

Hi,

You can go for Cost Element Planning in CJR2.

You can have Excel upload functionality in this transaction.

Regards,

Amit

[former_member203108]

Go for unit costing and if u want to generate reservation for material then go for ECP