Master data on the costing characteristics in Easy Cost Planning (ECP) that reflects the planning values in an ECP cost estimate, the costing model. The characteristics are stored for the cost estimate number of an ECP cost estimate. If several sub cost estimates exist, each of these can access new planning values. You cannot record a planning model at item level.

The key defined for the costing table in ECP is longer than can be recorded in the InfoObject, due to a restriction to the key length. For this reason, you must make sure that duplicated values are not extracted. However, the key of the InfoObject is comprised of characteristics that make it unlikely that records will be duplicated.