SAP S/4HANA End-to-End Lab

Both of these mean “someone outside does part of the work.” They are configured differently, they post differently, and picking the wrong one gives you a cost structure you cannot analyse later. The fastest way to keep them straight is not the definition — it is the accounting entry each one produces. What follows are the actual postings from two products made side by side in the same S/4HANA client: kimchi dumplings made by a subcontractor , and shrimp dumplings made in-house with one outsourced operation . Subcontracting: the vendor makes the product We buy the semi-finished product as work . We supply the raw materials, the subcontractor shapes them, and a single goods receipt settles the entire arrangement. That one document fires several OBYC account-determination keys at once: Posting at the subcontract goods receipt Amount OBYC key Dr 5080 raw material consumed — supplied to subcontractor 4,200 GBB · VBO Cr 1050...

In the last post on cost center variance calculation (KSS1) I noted that the similarly-named KKS1 is a different animal. This is that post: production order variance calculation. I hit two errors on the way in, so we start with their causes and fixes, then verify — by comparing the database before and after — exactly what gets stored where. Environment: controlling area JNC2, plant JNC2, period 2026/008, KRW, three production orders. ※ Screens, menus, and settings may differ depending on your SAP release and system configuration. Two errors before it would even run KV031 ("no target cost version") — version 0 itself existed. What was empty was the variance variant for orders (AWVAO) in OKV6: only the cost-center one (AWVAS) was maintained, which is why KSS1 worked fine while KKS1 refused. Same OKV6 screen, different column. KV011 is an order status problem. Order 1004916 got its goods receipt and final delivery on August 2 — run KKS1 for period 007 and, as of that pe...