Edit Costing Models
Application component: Product Cost Planning
App type: SAP GUI
Description:   In Easy Cost Planning the planner can use the costing model that you create with this function as a planning form. This enables costs to be calculated from the planner's point of view. The costing model can be used for all similar planning processes.  By assigning attributes to the role of the planner, you decide which screen areas of cost planning are displayed for the planner in the cost estimate, and to what extent they can be changed. This assignment applies across all models and hence is only required once for each role.  
Key features:   The following graphic shows an overview of the structure of the Easy Cost Planning: Model screen:    You can show or hide (  ) the screen area Worklists and also change the size of the screen areas.  Definition Area  Here you can edit a costing model or role. To switch from editing the costing model to editing the roles, either choose  or choose the role directly in the worklist. To return to editing the costing model, choose  or select the model directly in the worklist.  Having selected a costing model or created a new one, you can carry out all changes or definitions (by clicking on the nodes) in this area. You can enter a description for the model (  ). You can then use it to document the model. When the planner wants to create a cost estimate, this description is available for finding a planning form. For information on the editor, see PC Editor and Editing Text .  If you have selected a role , you can select here the attributes which should be assigned to the role.  Example If you assign the attribute Hide cost estimate item view to the single role Maintain Internal Orders (SAP_CO_OM_JOB_INTORDER_MAINT), the relevant button is hidden. That is, it is no longer possible to see the item view. This applies to all planners to whom only this role has been assigned. If you want to prevent a planner to whom multiple roles have been assigned from displaying the item view, assign this attribute to all of the planner’s roles. The simplification of the screen achieved by this is particularly useful for occasional users, especially if they do not have extensive knowledge of Controlling in the SAP System. However, for the planner it also means that it is no longer possible to change the costing items manually.  Work and Display Area  In this area, you can assign the characteristics. When you create new characteristics, you can define the characteristics directly from here. If the characteristics exist already, you can change them using  in the Characteristics Maintenance column.  In addition, you can display a preview on the entry screen by clicking on the node Structure model entry screen . You can then edit it here.  Note If you delete, change, edit or create new characteristics then these changes will only be displayed in the preview once you have saved the model. Worklists Area  This area contains the planning forms , characteristics , and roles . These are the predefined directories. The worklists provide an overview of the data present in the system and a user-friendly view of its structure. Once you have loaded the most frequently used planning forms, characteristics, and roles into the worklists, they are always immediately available. The directories can be made available to everyone, limited to a specific role to which you must have been assigned, or defined such that only you can use them.  To load the available data into the worklists, either choose  immediately next to the node, or  . You can create, insert (  ), rename, and restrict (  ) worklists, as well as modify what users can display them (change from user-specific to role-specific or all users). You can copy planning forms, characteristics, or roles to other worklists of the same category with drag & drop. Make sure that you select nodes supplied with a hyperlink together with the symbol in front of them. It is not possible to copy subdirectories. Use  to call up any worklists that are in the system but have not yet been displayed. To delete worklists, choose  . To remove subdirectories or loaded data from a worklist, choose  . To save worklists, choose  in the screen area Worklists .  You can call up a costing model and role directly by clicking on the relevant node in the worklist. You can assign a characteristic directly to a model. To do so, you must have chosen the model and called up the assignment of the characteristics in the work area. You can copy the characteristic into the table in the work area by dragging it with the mouse.