Question about the cumulative cost (VPRS) for a BOM material

[Former Member]

Dear everyone

Could I ask you a question about how to handle VPRS (cost) for a sales BOM material?

I recently created a new sales BOM which is structured in the following manner.

<Structure of the sales BOM>

1.  Header material A

2.  Component material B

3.  Component material C

Since I wanted to use "price at header level", I set the item category group of the material A to "ERLA".

Then I set the item category group of both material B and material C to "NORM".

When I created a sales order with this sales BOM, the item categories were set in the following way.

1. item category for material A  --> TAQ

2. item category for material B, material C --> TAE

Now, what I would like to do is to have a cumulative cost values of material A, material B and material C for the item line of material A.

example)

VPRS (=cost) of material A + VPRS(=cost) of material B + VPRS (=cost) of material C

This is because when we create an invoice for this sales order, we would like our profit to be calculated in the method below.

profit = netsales -  (cost of material A + cost of material B + cost of material C)

Would you tell me what the "easiest" way to fulfill this purpose?

I understand that there were already various discussions about this matter, but I couldn't quite understand them...

So if someone would give me the advice in the easy-to-understand way, I would really appreciate it.

Now, for this matter, what I tried to do was the following.

<Item category: TAE>

1. Setting the "Billing Relevance" to "M".

2. Checking on "Determine Cost"

<Copy control from item: TAQ to target billing type: F2>

1. Checking on "Cumulate cost"

As for the resulting invoice, would you refer to the attached screenshot?

Now, please note that I don't have the condition type "KUMU" in my SAP system at the moment.

If you would help me understand how to handle this matter, I would really appreciate it!

Kind regards,

Takashi

[Lakshmipathi · Accepted solution]

If it is a normal BOM scenario, check the following note:-

• Note 938666 - VPRS for cumulation and bills of material

On the other hand, if the scenario is multi-level BOM, then have a look at the following note:-

• Note 1586479 - Cumulate costs for multi-level BOM - SD Billing

G. Lakshmipathi

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Hi, Lakshmipathi-san

Thank you very much for your information.

I had a look at the note: 938666, but I couldn't really understand the relationship between

SDVPRSUPDATE and my question...

It seemed to me that the note is for fixing the existing sales orders with incorrect cost values...

Now, I had a note: 65908 (Cumulation of VPRS in main item), and it seemed to me that

this note is related to my request.

However, it appears that I need to do lots of modifications to implement the change which is

described there...

Is there any easier way than the note: 65908?

Kind regards,

Takashi

[Lakshmipathi · Accepted solution]

I think, other than the two notes referred by me and the one by you, this note will address your requirement. 

• Note 352441 - Accumulated cost is missing in the main item

Have a look at the above note

G. Lakshmipathi