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Cost behavior

In master data maintenance, you assign each business process a cost behavior attribute.

Example

Business process "Process Production Order" depends on the cost behavior "Number of production orders". Other possible attributes could include:

Default

The standard R/3 System includes common attributes for cost behavior:

Process costs based on the activity quantity (for example, packaging costs depend on the quantity of items to be packaged)
Process costs are independent of activity quantity (for example, the supervisor's personnel costs are not based on the activity quantity)
Process costs based on the number of lots to be processed
Process costs based on the number of items produced