WIP Account Definition in Beas

Article Type: Tips & Tricks

Product AREA: Beas Production

TOPIC / SYSTEM AREA : Journal Entries, WIP Account

System Functionality: Inventory management, WIP ACCOUNT DETERMINATION

1.1. Tags
Valuation method, WIP Account Setting

1.2. Notes

Beas is using SAP G/L Account Determination setting but it’s very important that you must check the below setting in Beas.

Every time you create a new Item Group you must run the “Automatic Identification” else you will get an error if the WIP account is not in this table

1.3. Let us look at an example.

I create a new raw material group “Raw_Material_New” where I have defined the new WIP account = 04200=WIP-Account-Raw_Material_New

Let us now run the WIP Account “Automatic Identification”. Below you see the new WIP Account=04200=WIP-Account-Raw_Material_New

If you are working with External Production Goods Receipt, you can in the external operation define a cost element as below:

In the cost element “External” you can have this setup – Look at the screen below:

When you run the Automatic WIP Identification the system will automatically insert the “WIP Extern Operation Cost”:

When you do the External Production Goods Receipt the system automatically post the service cost to the “WIP Extern Operation Cost” as below:

Beas does support Advanced G/L Account Determination setup in SAP. After setting up the rules in SAP you have to run the Automatic WIP Identification in Beas configuration.