Actual Cost

[former_member563943]

hi all,

Can anyone tell me wat r the pre-requisites to be maintained for calculating actual cost for an internal activity ...

i have not maintained any material or assigned resource to it...

i can view only Planned cost not the actual costs...

hw to calculate actual costs

Regards,

Preeti.P.G

[Former Member]

Hi,

For Internal Activity cost planning, you need to maintain the Work centre/cost centre, Cost centre/actity type and maintain the cost planining for cost centre/activity in KP27.

For Actual cost cost it can be posted thru various ways the system is configured. By way of confirmation of activity, if HR is implemented thru CATS-Time sheet entry or thru FI posting.

Regards

V Manoj

[Former Member]

Hi,

On control tab of network please check whether Costing variant is defined for actuals.

if entry is maintained, check in OPL1 for that costing variant is valuation variant maintained properly.

Hope this helps.

Regards

[Former Member]

U have to assign Work Center to the Intenal activity. In the Work Center or in the Internal activity assign Activity type. In the Activity Type maintain rate.

Once activity confirmed, system will calculate the actual cost.

Venkat

[former_member563943]

Hi,

i have already done those procedure....but still no actual cost were reflecting hence i posted this Question...

any other field to be maintained...

have already checked with work center,cost centers and activity type

Regards,

Preeti.P.G

[varshal_kachole3]

hi,

check the validity of the work center in CNR2 costing tab maintain a proper validity period.

Check the validity of the cost elements also and its assignment in KP26.

Have you maintained proper costing variant actual in Tcode: OPUV.

hope its useful.

Reward points if useful..Revert back if any other issue.

thanks..

[Former Member]

In OPSU for the Control Key used in ur activity check whether "Cost" Indicator is ticked.

Venkat

[former_member563943]

hi ,

as u all three of u mentioned to check few settings ...i am done with them....

no pblem in them...

to Shrikant, yes the costing variant is defined for actual..its PS03

Can u tell more about OPL1..i mean wat need to be maintained

to Varshal, CNR2,KP26,AND OPUV are maintained correctly

to venkat, the cost indicator is checked but the Gen.Cost.Act is unchecked...

to see the cost i always go to Edit->costs->plan/Actual->Activity/Element....

is it correct path????

Regards,

Preeti.P.G

Edited by: Preeti PG on May 14, 2008 11:18 AM

[former_member563943]

in OPL1 , tab named "Activity types/Processes" there for 2 Priority its maintained as "Actual Price of the Previous Period"

but i am thinking tht it must be maintained as "Actual Price for the Current Period"

Guide me on this

[Former Member]

Hi,

In CJ20N, click on the desired activity and press Ctrl+F10, ie calculate costs. If there are any errors, system will display log. Go thru it. You can also see the detailed log in Extras->Logs->Cost calculation.

Let me know what it says.

Regards

[Former Member]

Hi,

I think this should be the problem. What is first entry? In my settings there are 2 entries:

1. Plan price for the period

2. Most upto date Plan price

Make this setting and check, it should work.

Regards

Edited by: Shrikant Rakate on May 14, 2008 2:57 PM

[former_member563943]

well log says "cost log is empty"

in opl1...i have maintained thse 3 stratergies in tht tab

1.Plan Price for the Period

2.Actual Price of Previous period

3.Paln price as avg of all fiscal year periods

Regards,

Preeti.P.G

[former_member563943]

these are the strategies maintained for costing variant PS03

[varshal_kachole3]

Hi,

Let us give a trial:

Step 1: Reverse the confirmation on that activity By Tcode: CN29.

Step2: Now go to Tcode CJ20n and Confirm the same activity again..here the system shoud give message while saving the project:

Do not save but say cancel and then go to extraslogscost calculation..

this is because if you ignore this message and still continues to save and went back to see the log the log gets cleared.

Let me know what the error is..

Thanks..

[former_member563943]

i am not aware of reversing the confirmation....

so after going to CN29 i have mentioned n/w and activity and pressed enter...

now w to do next..

Edited by: Preeti PG on May 14, 2008 12:25 PM

[varshal_kachole3]

Hi,

enter the network and activity. hit enter, it will bring a window where the original confirmation was saved..

now click on save and this will popup a window asking you to enter the reason for the reversal of the confirmation..

once it is done hit F3.

thanks..

[former_member563943]

hi there,

thanks for helping me so far..

i have reversed back the n/w confirmation ...when i tried confirming the same activity its not popping up any msg...its allowing me to confirm the activity...

and i can save the project without any Msg being displayed

i had doubt in Costing variant tcode OPL1...where in for PS03...under tab Activity/Process 3 strategies have been maintained...

1) Plan price for the period

2)actual Price of Previous period

3)plan price as Avg of all fiscsl year periods

here in 2nd one i think it need to be maintained as "Actual price of the period"

is it root of all these pblems..

[varshal_kachole3]

Any log?

Next in OPL1 whats the CO plan version maintained. by default make it "0" and click on that tab it will take you to T code..OKEQ .. just check whether the actual is cheked there..

even with that entry it should calculate theactual cost.. thats the strategy sequence,if first fails to get the data it looks at second and so on..

check this and let me know..

[former_member563943]

i checked log it says "cost log is empty" and others also says "there is no entries to display"...

in OPL1 i checked the Plan/Actual Co version...

the actuals are checked...

Regards,

Preeti.P.G

[varshal_kachole3]

hi

check this out..

SPRO>PS>info system>cost revenue info system>project info database--set update control..

is the update checked, if not check it..

now check Tcode CJVC. are all the cost elements assigned in the value category properly..

then run Tcode: CJEN with test run on it.. first set delete and test run..then remove delete with onlytest run..

select object list

check whether ur getting the actual costs there..

if it does then remove test run and carryout the above cycle again..

run the report S_ALR_87013532.

do you see the actual costs there?

[former_member563943]

i have checked the "update" box and in CJVc...cost center and cost element is assigned...so no pblem der...

In CJEN, i am nt able to proceed ...as it listed all Project hierarchy der....i mean it listed only the names of proj,WBS,N/w,Activity

when i executed "S_ALR_87013532". it says "Alternative hierarchy could not be determined"...

then it says No cost and revenue and finace were selected

Regards,

Preeti.P.G

Edited by: Preeti PG on May 14, 2008 1:38 PM

[varshal_kachole3]

hi,

in CJEN, remove the check from background processing..and carry out all the steps

sorry forgot to tell that...

[former_member563943]

ya i removed it and tested ...thts y i edited my earlier posting...

any further steps to carry out

[varshal_kachole3]

hi all,

Can anyone tell me wat r the pre-requisites to be maintained for calculating actual cost for an internal activity ...

i have not maintained any material or assigned resource to it...

i can view only Planned cost not the actual costs...

hw to calculate actual costs

Regards,

Preeti.P.G

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Atleast you should be able to see the planned cost in S_ALR_8701353 as per your earlier question..

[former_member563943]

ya i cud see only the planned cost in CJ20n...through Edit ->cost->calculate costs

to check plan/actual variance again thru Edit Menu...

when i run CJEN with Detail list its giving me the costs as per individual years....

but in report S_ALR_87013532...no clue of it...it gives error msg saying "Alternative hierarchy could not be determined"...

Regards,

Preeti.P.G

[former_member563943]

hi der,

i executed the report "S_ALR_87013532".

but its not showing the Actuals ..its only showing Planned cost now..

[varshal_kachole3]

Hi,

Please carry out all the steps from the begining till the last reply..

I am sure that will solve your problem.

Hope that helps, reward points if helpful.

thanks

[former_member563943]

Hi

Thanks for the Help...i got the result...

Regards,

Preeti.P.G

[varshal_kachole3]

Hi,

Step1: Release that particular activity. (Tcode CJ20nOpen the Projecthighlight the activity in question-Editstatus--release

Step2: Once the activity operations are over give a confirmation to that activity.

Projecthighlight the activity in question-Editactivityconfirm

Upon confirmation of the activity only the actual cost is posted for the internal activity.

Thanks....

Reward point if useful.