Knowledge Management

Question:
Dear All,
a customer just called and asked me to change the existing moving average prices (MAP) in their system.
This customer runs SAP just for a couple of months and is running the legacy system in parallel. He now dicovered discrepancies in the MAP between both systems and trust the legacy system more.
Reason for this is that users have not entered all transaction in time.
My questions to you. Can I just use MR21 to change the price like for standard cost? (Assuming I have maintained UMB in automatic postings)
Actually I never have that requirement to change the MAD, as the actual price hardly can be wrong. Shouldn't be the problem better be solved by just entering all outstanding movements?
Please let me know, which general impact such a revaluation for MAP has.
Please help!
Answer:
Hi there!
There are so many little things which may effect the MAP that it is very likely having different data in SAP and the legacy system.
Only when goods receipts, goods issues, invoices etc. are being posted in the same order in both systems you can be sure to have same data. Otherwise MAP might vary in the systems. There is no big deal to use MR21. You will just increase or decrease your stock value and get a second posting on gain or loss through price variance.
Bye
Ralf
Answer:
Hi,
Technically the MAP can be easily changed via standard transaction code. However, it does much concern all companies implementing MAP is the implication and consequence of such changes. Of course, everyone is very much aware of what MAP means to your SAP transactions/reports and eventually balance sheet. Any change in this MAP will significantly be having the financial impacts. As the result, rather making a quick decision on changing this MAP, it is strongly recommended that all related teams (FI/CO, MM, SD etc...) shall be jointly investigated the root cause of this problem and once problem was completely defined, then action can be taken to get it fixed.
Cheers,
HT
Answer:
Normally when u change the MAP through MR21, it will create accounting entry and this entry will create problem at the time of audit,
hence it is advisable to involve auditors concurence before changing MAP.
If u got clearence from the auditor then i will suggest only MR21.
ManishM
Answer:
Thanks for your replies!
I am now at customer site and see a little bit clearer. They changed their the way of recording freight and custom costs. As of November they post all freight and custom costs to the stock account (BSX) instead of separate freight and custom accounts. However for some materials the old posting strategy was still used, thus there are inconsistencies.
I told them to revaluate the affected materials via MR21 and adjust the freight and custom accounts in FI accordingly.
Hope this is the right way to do it, as I don't have any FI expert to consult here and the FI Manager of the customer causing the trouble resigned.
Another question!
How can I upload ca. 1000 materials for MR21 for mass changes? Do LSMW or SCATT work for it? Or do I need ABAP programmer writing a batch input?
THanks for your help!
Answer:
Hi suntoucher,
I am using MR21 often and always add the materials manually. As far I know there is no mass change for standard or moving avaerage price in SAP.
If there is a way to batch input I would be glad to know too