3806038 - How Preliminary Costing Works in Production Orders — Planned Costs, Costing Variant, and Cost Display

It is not clear how planned costs are calculated for a production order, what controls the cost calculation (costing variant, valuation variant), what types of costs are included (material, production, overhead), how costs are displayed in the production order, or why planned costs change when the order is modified.

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