If you set the "Transfer sales order cost estimate" radio button, the system reads the sales order cost estimate for the sales order item and transfers this to Profitability Analysis (CO-PA). The sales order and the sales order item are determined from the CO-PA line item.
Once you have set the "Transfer sales order cost estimate" radio button, the fields listed in the section "Control Data for the Standard Cost Estimate" are not required because the system automatically finds the correct material cost estimate using the information on the sales order item.
You can only transfer a sales order cost estimate to CO-PA if it was created using material costing. Unit cost estimates cannot be transferred to CO-PA.
For more information about costing sales order items using the material costing method, see the section Product Costing for Sales Order Items/Order BOMs in the IMG for Product Cost Controlling.