The operational ordering function can be divided into sales-related orders and company-internal orders.

Sales-related orders mainly serve the purpose of logistic control of input factors and sales activities.

There are the following kinds of company-internal orders (internal orders):

• Orders purely for object controlling purposes within cost accounting (for instance orders for marketing or exhibitions)
• Productive, value-adding orders that can be activated (for instance in-house manufacture of a conveyor belt)

A company’s internal ordering function represents the most detailed operational level of cost and activity accounting and serves to

• Monitor costs, for instance in those areas where costs have to be considered in other ways apart from cost element and cost center accounting
• Support "make or buy" decision-making

Carry out the following steps to assign CO orders to Real Estate objects and to valuate the costs:

1. Create order(s).
2. Assign the required Real Estate object in the master data of the CO order.
3. Plan or carry out account assignments on the CO order (for instance CO settlement, financial accounting, materials management).
4. You can analyze the non-cumulative values of CO orders within the RE information system by Real Estate object or by cost element:

• ACTUAL
• COMMITMENT
• PLAN