Costing variant forms the link between the application and Customizing, since all cost estimates are carried out and saved with reference to a costing variant. The costing variant contains all the control parameters for costing.

The configuration parameters are maintained for costing type, valuation variants, date control, and quantity structure control. In costing type we specify which field in the material master should be
updated. In valuation variant we specify the following

• The sequence or order the system should go about accessing prices for the material master (planned price, standard price, moving average price etc).
• It also contains which price should be considered for activity price calculation.
• How the system should select BOM and routing.

Results Analysis Key: This key determines how the Work in Progress is calculated.

Cost Components: The break up of the costs which get reflected in the product costing eg. Material Cost, Labour Cost, Overhead etc

Costing Sheets: This is used to calculate the overhead in Controlling.

Costing Variant: For All manufactured products the price control recommended is Standard Price. To come up with this standard price for the finished good material this material has to be costed. This is done using Costing Variant. Further questions down below will explain this concept better.

An example would help us understand this much better.

Lets say in an organization there are various events such as trade fairs, training seminars, which occur during the year. Now lets assume for a second that these Trade fairs are organized by the Marketing cost center of the organization. Therefore in this case marketing cost center is responsible for all the trade fairs costs. All these trade fairs costs are posted to the marketing cost centers. Now if the management wants an analysis of the cost incurred for each of the trade fair organized by the marketing cost center how would the marketing manager get this piece of information across to them? The cost center report would not give this piece of info Now this is where Internal Order steps in .If you go through all cost center reports this information is not readily available since all the costs are posted to the cost center.

SAP, therefore provides the facility of using internal orders which comes in real handy in such situations. In the above scenario the controlling department would then need to create an internal order for each of the trade fair organized. The cost incurred for each of the trade fair will be posted to the internal orders during the month. At the month end, these costs which are collected in the internal order will be settled from these orders to the marketing cost center.

Thus the controlling person is now in a position to analyze the cost for each of the trade fair separately. Thus internal order is used to monitor costs for short term events, activities. It helps in providing more information than that is provided on the cost centers. It can be widely used for various purposes .

In Long term planning process the planned production quantities are entered for the planning year in a particular scenario. The Long term planning is executed for the scenario. This generates the planned activity requirements taking the activity quantities from the routing and multiplying with the planned production.

The activity requirements are then transferred to the controlling module as scheduled activity quantities. Thereafter you execute a plan activity reconciliation which will reconcile the schedule activity and the activity you have planned manually. The reconciliation program updates the scheduled activity quantity as the planned activity in the controlling module.

The Business Rule Framework (BRF) is a framework. By way of their application class, applications must be registered in the BRF to be able to use the services of the BRF. The BRF is a cross-line tool. It comprises of a runtime environment and a maintenance environment.

The basic idea of the BRF is to offer the possibility of freely configurable rules being processed at certain business events, known as BRF events ( or simply events).

In this Presentation, you will explain the differences between the old and the new workflow concept. Describe the transition to the new workflow (BRF) concept. Perform the initial BRF configuration and understand how BRF enhancements are performed.

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