Material Price getting captured from old info record during CJ40

[Former Member]

Dear Gurus,

Our client is facing an issue during CJ40, I will elaborate the problem :

We have a Material

In the Material Master Record the price is mentioned as "5200"

When we run "EINA" and enter the Material Number, we get a list of info records against the material

from here i copy all the info records and put them into the table "EIPA", i get the order price history for the info records,

Now when we do a Cost Planning (CJ40) for a WBS and use the same material code, the price is getting captured from a different Info record and not from the last info record.

Have also checked on OKKT the purchase info record is given the top most priority in the Strategy list.

So how do pull the price from the last info record ?

With Regards,

Sagnik Chakravarty.

[Former Member]

Hi all,

Sorry not to mark this discussion as closed as it is still open.

I tried to do a few test cases.

1) When I created a new material without any moving average price. When I create a PO for a particular Vendor with that material code the system asks for a Net Price as no price is still maintained in the info record. Once I enter the Net price manually the system accepts and I save the PO. as shown below :

Now I perform CJ40, the system captures the Net price from the PO for the new material. I make another PO with the same vendor and I alter the Net Price. Save the PO and check the costing in CJ40 the system again pulls up the latest price. The same instance happened in 2 other PO's with the same vendor and CJ40 capturing the latest price from the PO. as shown below :

2nd PO :

corresponding CJ40 :

(CJ40 working fine for one vendor) but

2) When I take the same material and create a PO for a different vendor with a different price as shown :

Now if we perform CJ40 ideally the system should capture 500 which is the latest Purchase Order Price but instead the system is pulling the price from the last purchase order which was assigned to the vendor assigned to the 2nd PO as shown :

Now if I create a 3rd PO with the same vendor as in the 2nd PO ,

Now if we perform CJ40 we get :

the system still captures the material net price from the 2nd PO. as shown :

we have maintained the Costing variant in OKKT as :

Does any one have a solution to this?

Regards:

Sagnik Chakravarty.

[Former Member]

Dear Gurus,

Sad to see that nobody is being able to solve the problem yet ? Can someone really help?

Sagnik.

[JL23]

I actually see it solved.

Had you seen the decision graphic in SAP docu link given by Ajit.

Now it is your turn to proof that this graphic is wrong based on your data.

Then we might be able to give a hand, or you need to open a ticket if this docu is wrong

[PEHAM]

Hello

sometimes SAP is taking the purchasing price from EINE table.

Did you check this table content?

You should be aware that you must run (via transaction ME1B) program  RM06INP0 regularly otherwise you may have discrepancies between EINE and pricing table KONP when you maintain the inforecord from the condition screens.

Best regards.

[Former Member]

Problem not resolved yet... can any one help!! ?

[Former Member]

Hi,

Please check for the date of the WBS Element / Project creation.

Check what price was there in the info record on that date.

Regards,

Prashant

[JL23]

I dont think that SAP is taking an info record price from table EIPA, EIPA has nothing to do with price determination.

The price from an info record is coming via the table A017 and KONH and KONP.

you should have given screen shots from ME13 and its condition views

[Former Member]

Thanks Jurgen Sir,

But I specifically want to know about where CJ40 is pulling the price of the material from? As in the above screenshot you can clearly see the purchase history of the material info record wise. So why is the system pulling arbitrary one and not the last one.

I can maintain thousand of info records for a material! so why is the condition coming into picture?

Regards,

Sagnik Chakravarty.

[ajitkumar]

Read SAP help for product cost planning > valuation of costing items > determination of vendor

you can find a nice flow chart

[ajitkumar]

You do have a price of 325 in the info records. See whether there is a quota arrangement where that vendor is having max quota , if no quota, whether there is a source list with that vendor as fixed vendor.  if this is also not there i think it take the cheapest price..,it also check for regular vendor is maintained for any before taking the oveall cheapest

you may test by modifying these data to see how the price is picked

[Former Member]

Hello Ajit,

We have not maintained any quota arrangement or source list. Its not taking the cheapest price as well. How ever it is picking up an arbitary info record, have tried the same with other materials as well.

Regards,

Sagnik.