Dear experts,
I'm facing a strange issue regarding cost planning in WBS:
We do detailed cost planning (by cost element) for WBS through CJ40
We have an enhancer report to calculate the Earned Values (Budget/BCWS/BCWP/CV/SV/CAC/CTC)
This report is fetching the Budget values from the Cumulative planned cost (Cumulative column in CJ40).
You can find no values also in the Cost Planning transactions CJ40:
The report is working properly, but for a specific project, the report is fetching -ve budget values for some empty WBS elements (WBS elements with no planned costs)
WBS Element | Consolidated Description | Budget |
PO-10WW01-08-3 | OHTL | -14,965,172.06 |
PO-10WW01-08-3-M | Materials for OHTL | -6,071,739.27 |
PO-10WW01-08-3-S | Subcon. for OHTL | -8,893,432.79 |
And in the standard Cost reports such as S_ALR_87013543, you can find 2 blank line items: one for the WBS PO-10WW01-08-3-M against the cost element "Raw Material Consumption"& the other for the WBS PO-10WW01-08-3-S against the cost element"Subcontractors". That means that there were budget values for those 2 WBS elements against those 2 cost elements, but they have been deleted.
But when you look inside the backend tables (T-code: SE16) for those 2 WBS elements, you find 2 line items for each fiscal year: one with value against no cost element & the other with the -ve same value against the respective cost element (the cost element that appeared above in the standard reports with blank value).
Data browsing for WBS PO-10WW01-08-3-M:
What happens is that the enhanced cost report is fetching the sum of only -ve values existing in the backend tables (because it's the values with cost elements assignment).
Can anybody tell me why in SE16 there's 2 line items with 2 equal opposite sign values for each fiscal year??