Controlling with SAP - Practical Guide

1.1 Basic Controlling Functions 28

1.2 Essential Record Keeping Functions 33

1.3 Managing Close and Valuation Processes 40

1.4 Preparing Budgets and Planning 43

1.5 Process Analysis and Internal Controls 47

1.6 Summary 49

2.1 Cost Center Line Items 52

2.2 Order Line Items 62

2.3 Product Costs: Itemization 65

2.4 Product Costs: Cost Objects 72

2.5 Material Ledger 77

2.6 Profitability Analysis Reports 80

2.7 Summary 87

3.1 How to Set Up Cost Centers 90

3.2 Internal Orders 105

3.3 Statistical Key Figures 114

3.4 Activity Types 117

3.5 Secondary Cost Elements 123

3.6 Product Cost Collectors 130

3.7 Cost Object Hierarchies 132

3.8 Maintenance Issues 134

3.9 Change Requests for a SOX-Compliant Master Data Process 137

3.10 Summary 141

4.1 Material Masters 144

4.2 Customer Masters 156

4.3 Bills of Material 158

4.4 Routings 168

4.5 Work Centers and Resources 173

4.6 Procurement Alternatives and Mixed Costing 175

4.7 Projects 179

4.8 Investment Programs 183

4.9 Primary Cost Elements and P&L Accounts 186

4.10 Setting Prices for Product Costing 191

4.11 Summary 198

5.1 Complete Sales Plan in a Manufacturing Environment 203

5.2 Planning and Budgeting For Investment Programs 246

5.3 Summary 256

6.1 Integrated Process Flows: Buy, Make, and Sell 257

6.2 Distribution of Usage Variances 289

6.3 Integrated Process Flows: Other Logistics Scenarios 295

6.4 Corrections or Adjustment Postings 313

6.5 Cross-Company Postings 319

6.6 Summary 324

7.1 Allocations 326

7.2 Calculations and Settlement 352

7.3 Multilevel Actual Costing in Material Ledger 371

7.4 CO-PA Processes 384

7.5 Summary 386

8.1 Reporting on Large Data Volumes in SAP ERP 388

8.2 How to Decide Whether You Need SAP NetWeaver BW for Reporting 395

8.3 Cost Center Reporting in SAP NetWeaver BW 413

8.4 Reporting with SAP Business­Objects Tools 418

8.5 Summary 426

9.1 Change

Janet Salmon joined SAP in 1992, working first as a translator and then a technical writer for Product Cost Controlling. She received an award from the Society of Technical Communication for "Functions in Detail: Product Cost Controlling" in 1998, where the judges described her brochure as "refreshingly free of fluff". She began working as a product manager/solution manager for the Product Costing area in 1995 and gradually began covering Profitability Analysis and Overhead Controlling. She began writing articles for the SAP Financials Expert in 2003. She is a regular speaker on Controlling at conferences including: ASUG, SAP Financials (US and Europe), and Mastering SAP Financials (Australia).