The cost estimate is a tool for planning non order-related costs and establishing prices for materials. It is used to calculate the cost of goods manufactured and cost of goods sold for each product unit.

The following functions are available for working with material cost estimates with quantity structure:

• Cost Estimate with Quantity Structure for a Material
• Additive Costs for a Cost Estimate with Quantity Structure
• Costing Run for the Processing of Mass Data
• Managing the Costing Results, such as Saving, Archiving and Deleting
• Use of Existing Costing Data
• Use of Parallel and Background processing