P4205 Standard Cost Variance
The Ship Confirm FAQ document states:
Question 3 - How does Shipment Confirmation (P4205) determine if there is a Standard Cost Variance.
Answer 3 – The functionality is the following:
- If the Item Standard Cost (in F4105.UNCS) was modified between order creation and ship confirm and the cost on sales order detail line (F4211.UNCS) was not overridden, then Shipment Confirmation (P4205) will update the sales order detail cost (F4211.UNCS) with the latest Standard Cost in the Item Cost table (F4105). Only one record is written to the Item Ledger (F4111) with the updated extended cost from the sales order. At Sales Update (R42800), since there is no variance between the sales order cost and item standard cost, no standard cost variance record will be written to the journal entries table (F0911) using
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