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Maintenance Cost Budgeting 
You can use this business process to create a budget for maintenance activities related to technical assets, that is, functional locations and/or equipment. The budget can be either zero-based or history-based.
· A zero-based budget is created from simulated costing data residing in the underlying SAP ECC system and typically includes maintenance plans and task lists.
· A history-based budget is created on the basis of actual costing data from maintenance orders from previous years.
Maintenance cost budgeting is a tool that helps reduce the workload typically involved in the budgeting process and allows for a standardized company-wide budgeting method.

1. Verify ERP master data (SAP ECC)
2. Extract cost simulation data from ERP (SAP NetWeaver)
3. Create and assign top-level budget (SAP NetWeaver)
4. Create maintenance budget (SAP NetWeaver)
5. Approve budget (SAP NetWeaver)
6. Retract budget data to ERP (SAP ECC)