How To Fix KQ445 - More than one costing variant with same costing type/val. vrnt exists

SAP Error Message - Details

• Message type: E = Error

• Message class: KQ - Error Messages for Customizing Product Costing

• Message number: 445

• Message text: More than one costing variant with same costing type/val. vrnt exists

What causes this issue?

The combination of costing type and valuation variant used in this
costing variant is also used in at least one other costing variant
(such as &V1&).
Although it is technically possible to have two costing variants with
the same combination of costing type and valuation variant, this should
be avoided to prevent data from being overwritten.
When cost estimates are saved, the system uses the costing type and the
valuation variant as the key, rather than the costing variant. It is
therefore possible that a cost estimate with a given costing type and
valuation variant will overwrite another cost estimate that has the
same costing type and valuation variant, even though the costing
variants are different.

System Response

How to fix this error?

Make sure this situation is what you want.

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• What is the cause and solution for SAP error message KQ445 - More than one costing variant with same costing type/val. vrnt exists ?

  The SAP error message KQ445 indicates that there is a conflict in the configuration of costing variants within the system. Specifically, it means that there are multiple costing variants defined for the same costing type and valuation variant, which is not allowed in SAP.
  
  Cause:
  The error typically arises from one of the following situations:
  
  Duplicate Configuration: There are multiple costing variants configured in the system that share the same costing type and valuation variant.
  Incorrect Customization: During the setup of costing variants, the same combination of costing type and valuation variant may have been inadvertently assigned to different costing variants.
  Transport Issues: If configurations were transported from one system to another (e.g., from development to production), it might have led to duplicates if the same configurations were already present in the target system.
  
  
  Solution:
  To resolve the KQ445 error, you can follow these steps:
  
  
  Check Costing Variants:
  
  Go to the transaction code OKKN (Costing Variants) in SAP.
  Review the