Hi gurus,
on our SAP project we have material ledger with repetetive manufacturing (REM).
The client requires to calculate actual costing for each batch following actual multi level consumptions.
From what i know Material ledger works level by level and, due to REM production, it's not able to calculate real actual costing by batch. See the following example.
- production of 1000 pce of SFG (batch 1) consuming 1000 kg of ingredient
- production of 1000 pce of SFG (batch 2) consuming 500 kg of ingredient
then
- production of 1000 pce of FG (batch 1) consuming 1000 kg of SFG (batch 1)
- production of 1000 pce of FG (batch 2) consuming 1000 kg of SFG (batch 2)
Production of SFG batch1 was more efficient then the batch 2, and conseguently the actual cost of batch1 of FG should be better than the batch 2. But that efficiency has not any impact on FG actual costing.
In fact actual costing of FG will consider the total values and apply an average: 2000 pce of FG produced and 2000 pce of SFG consumed, where the 2000 pce of SFG have been produced consuming 1500 kg of ingredient; at the end it means (for material ledger) that to produce 1000 pce of FG we consumed on average 750 kg of ingredient.
I tried applying valuation category X (by batch) on material master data (accounting 1) but results were no good. Any batch has the same actual costing (looking to the below example, SFG batch 1 has the same actual costing of SFG batch2).
The only way i found is to use a specific and different cost collectors for each production confirmation but it is not applicable (would be too complex to be manage).
Anybody have experience on this issue or have an advice?
Best regards
Marco