SAP ABAP Data Element KATEGORIE (Category)

Hierarchy

☛ BBPCRM (Software Component) BBPCRM
   ⤷ CRM-CIC (Application Component) Interaction Center WinClient
     ⤷ KKAG (Package) Period costing individual case

Basic Data

Data Element	KATEGORIE
Short Description	Category

Data Type

Category of Dictionary Type	D	Domain
Type of Object Referenced		No Information
Domain / Name of Reference Type	KATEGORIE
Data Type	CHAR	Character String
Length	1
Decimal Places	0
Output Length	1
Value Table

Further Characteristics

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Field Label

	Length	Field Label
Short	10	Category
Medium	15	Category
Long	20	Category
Heading	4	Cat.

Documentation

Definition

Identifies the cost elements that are grouped into line IDs for the calculation of work in process and results analysis.

• WIP Calculation at Actual Cost

  The following categories are used:

• K - Costs
All costs for which work in process can be created (such as material costs, internal activities, and external activities) must be assigned to line IDs of this category.
• A - Settled Costs
This category is used with WIP calculation at actual cost.
All cost elements for goods receipts to the warehouse inventory must be assigned to line IDs of this category.
The order is credited at the time of the goods receipt. The costs credited to the order at the time of the goods receipt are subtracted from the debits to the order if WIP at actual costs is being used. Work in process is the difference between the debit and the credit.
• N - Costs Not to Be Included
All cost elements for which no work in process is to be created (such as sales and administration costs or special direct costs of production) must be assigned to line IDs of this category.

The other categories are only used in results analysis.

• Results Analysis

  The following categories can be used:

• K - Costs
Results analysis compares the actual cost of this category with the calculated cost of sales. If the cost of sales is less than the actual cost, work in process is created in the amount of the difference. If the cost of sales is greater than the actual cost, reserves for unrealized costs are created in the amount of the difference.
• P - Costs of Complaints and Commissions
For costs of this category, the system creates reserves for the cost of complaints and commissions in the same amount as the planned costs. These reserves are immediately assigned to the cost of sales as an expense. No work in process is created for actual costs of this category. The reserves for complaints and commissions are used as actual costs are incurred. If the actual costs are greater than the reserves, the reserves can be increased. If there are no actual costs, the reserves are canceled later and affect the earnings.
• D - Special Costs
Neither WIP nor reserves are created for costs of this category. If actual costs are incurred for this category, they are charged directly to the cost of sales. Packaging costs and shipping costs are examples of special costs.
• E - Revenues
Depending on the valuation method specified in the results analysis method, the system can calculate the cost of sales using the actual revenue, for example, or inventory from which revenue can be generated or a revenue surplus (reserve) can be calculated compared with the revenue affecting net income. Reserves for imminent loss can be created on the basis of the planned revenue and the planned costs.
• F - Customer Down Payments
With the POC methods in results analysis, you can offset the customer down payments against the revenue in excess of billings and report this offset separately. In the assignment, you can use the variable/fixed indicator A together with the cost element to assign customer down payments and down payment clearings to a line ID. For more information, see Notes 448150, 563795, 599369, and 607406.
• G - Direct Revenues Through Special Costs
The revenues of this category are assigned to the special costs at the time of processing. This means that in individual processing in results analysis (transactions KKA1, KKA2, KKA3, KKA4, KKA5, and KKA6), these actual revenues are reported as part of the cost of sales as per the definition of special costs. Likewise, the actual and planned revenues of this category are contained in the reported values of the special costs in the logs of individual processing in results analysis. The only difference is how they are written to the database. The actual revenues of this category are not updated as the cost of sales but with results analysis category "Valuated Actual Revenue/Revenue Affecting Net Income" and are also displayed this way in the information system. The values reported in collective processing (transactions KKAI, KKAJ, and KKAK) are the same as the values in the information system.
• A - Settled Costs
Costs of category A do not play a part in results analysis for objects with revenue.
• N - Costs Not to Be Included
All cost elements that you want to exclude must be assigned to line IDs of this category. In results analysis, you assign to this category all cost elements with which the object ( sales document item or WBS element) has already been credited. Define a line ID for this purpose that contains the cost elements under which the object was credited. With single-level objects, this is possible but usually not necessary because credit from settlement to a results analysis object is not included in the standard system. With multilevel objects, this method is not always possible because lower-level objects can settle to receivers that are outside the hierarchy of results analysis. The costs and revenues that you assign to line IDs of category N can be accessed in customer enhancements 1 (see Note 26002) and 2 (Note 26957) of results analysis.

History

Last changed by/on	SAP	19931130
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