Copying a Cost Estimate

You can use an existing base planning object as a reference for your unit cost estimate (which could be for a material or production order without quantity structure), and insert either all or some of the base planning object items in the unit cost estimate.

Example Example

Cost Estimate for a Sales Order that Accesses Existing Costing Items

You create a base object cost estimate for a group of product variants. This cost estimate contains all material components and activities required to produce one of these variants. This cost estimate serves mainly as a template for selecting costing items. The total value of the cost estimate is therefore ignored.

To create a cost estimate for a sales order to produce one of these variants, call up a list of all costing items for the product group and select those items required to produce the variant. You may need to insert additional costing items.

End of the example.

Prerequisites

You are in the List Screen of the Unit Cost Estimate.

Copying All Items

Choose Functions Copy cost estimate...
The dialog box Copy Cost Estimate appears.
Enter the name of the base planning object that you want to copy.
Do not set the flag All items.
Choose .
All the items are copied into the clipboard.
Position the cursor on the row in which you want to insert the items.
Choose (Paste).
The items are pasted from the clipboard to the list screen of the unit cost estimate and revalued.

For more information, see Valuation of Costing Items and Revaluating Costing Items.
Creation of Costing Items more costing items as required and save the cost estimate.
If applicable, save the reference object (such as the base planning object or sales order).

Copying Selected Items

Choose Functions Copy cost estimate...
The dialog box Copy Cost Estimate appears.
Enter the name of the base planning object that you want to copy.
Do not set the flag All items.
Choose .
The system displays a dialog box with a list of the costing items.
From this list, select those costing items you want to copy, and select Confirm.
These costing items are copied to the clipboard.
Position the cursor on the row in which you want to insert the items.
Choose (Paste).
The items are pasted from the clipboard to the list screen of the unit cost estimate and revalued.

For more information, see Valuation of Costing Items and Revaluating Costing Items.
Enter more costing items as required and save the cost estimate.
If applicable, save the reference object (such as the base planning object or sales order).