No overhead could be calculated

Message type: E = Error

Message class: KV - Variance Analysis for Cost Centers and Cost Objects

Message number: 189

Message text: No overhead could be calculated



What causes this issue?

<DS:GLOS.3526B637AFAB52B9E10000009B38F974>Variance calculation</>
calculates the <DS:GLOS.3526B75FAFAB52B9E10000009B38F974>target
costs</> for an order
(<DS:GLOS.3526C3D7AFAB52B9E10000009B38F974>manufacturing order</> or
<DS:GLOS.3526B6F2AFAB52B9E10000009B38F974>product cost collector</>),
or - in <DS:GLOS.3526BEACAFAB52B9E10000009B38F974>joint production</> -
for the order item of a manufacturing order. This process calculates
the overhead to be applied at target costs.
In this case no overhead could be calculated.


System Response

If this message is issued as an error message (message type E), the
object is flagged as having errors and is sent to the worklist.
If the message is issued as an abend message (message type A),
processing is terminated.
If the message is issued as a warning message (message type W) or
information message (message type I), the object is processed without
the target overhead. The target costs then do not include the target
overhead costs.
You can also suppress the message (message type "blank").
In the standard system, this message is an error message.


How to fix this error?

If you want to assign the message to a different message type, go into
Customizing for Product Cost by Order or Product Cost by Period and
access the user-defined error management function.


Procedure for System Administrators

The system issues an error message and will not allow you to continue with this transaction until the error is resolved.


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