No Target Costs in Product Costing
Certain transactions and reports are run but they display zero in the Target Costs Column.
Transactions like KKBC_PKO,KKBC_ORD,KKPX,CO01,CO03 (Cost Analysis Report).
Reason and Prerequisites
This may occur because one of the following criteria are true:
1 - there is no Valid Standard Cost Estimate. (Check in table KEKO, the valid to and from dates)
2 - variance calculation has not been done yet. The order should have status VCAL (see order header or RKACSHOW(table JEST)
3 - No Goods Receipts - see costs analysis report
4 - In the variance calculation target costs are calculated only for that part or those cost elements of the relevant cost estimate which are relevant for the stock valuation. (see CK13N, Inventory valuation view)
5 - Is the Cost Element a factory output or also called target credit? The target credit is not calculated on-the-fly by the target cost calculation in KKBC_ORD or COR2/3 but only by the variance calculation and therefore they appear with value zero as long as the variance calculation has not been run in update mode.
As an alternative you could apply the note 834317. But please notice that this note contains a modification and not a standard correction.
Solution
Please note that the target costs are calculated and written to the database only at the point of variance calculation.
Before that point, you can still see the 'online' calculation of the target costs for example in CO03 cost analysis report in report 'Target/Actual comparaison', only if good receipt have taken place. This is only for information purposes since no variance calculation has taken place yet.
Target costs are calculated by multiplying the receipt quantity by the planned prices from the current cost estimate (in version 0). Please note that the system looks for the released cost estimate of the head material for calculating the target costs of each item. That means that the costing status of the head material must be 'FR', not the one of the component.
In addition to this, please check entries for target cost in table COSP to make sure that the released cost estimate was the current one for the period were the target costs were calculated.
The note 414378 mentions that you need to set status DLV/TECO and carry out the variance calculation in order to be able to see the target cost in your cost analysis report.
CO-PRODUCT SCENARIO
The order has co-products which creates a different scenario with target costs. Specific to co-products however is, actual costs remain on the header
until CO8B is executed and distributed to the individual items. You can only display target costs for joint production on the level of the order items. For this you can use report KKBC_ORD, "Settings" -> "Order Items" -> "on/off". You can now enter in the item number and view the target costs. This has to be done on an individual basis as there is no collective method to view this data for co-products.