You send a quotation with planned costs to a customer. The quotation is binding , meaning that the customer will be billed the price agreed upon in the quotation once the services have been performed. The customer accepts the quotation.
Revenue-bearing service order with or without service product
Enter planned costs
Accept quotation and put service order in process
Quotation with or without service product
Billing form
Flat rate
The table describes which objects are relevant for quotation creation in this scenario.
Planned costs are not considered
Relevant for Billing |
Not Relevant for Billing |
Service Product |
Material (planned costs, actual costs) |
Working hours (planned costs, actual costs) |
Planned costs are considered
Relevant for Billing |
Not Relevant for Billing |
Material (planned costs) |
Material (actual costs) |
Working hours (planned costs) |
Working hours (actual costs) |
If a quotation has been created for a service order, you can
No longer perform a selection of contracts
Only create pro forma items or invoices
If a service order makes reference to a contract, you can no longer create a quotation.
Consideration of planned costs
Planned costs are not considered
If you copy a service product into the quotation, the quotation price corresponds to the price of the service product.
You can either achieve this by copying the planned costs in the sales price basis at 0% into the quotation, or by assigning a dynamic item processor profile (DIP profile), that does not determine any costs in the event of a quotation (meaning that you do not specify a source for costs in the DIP profile).
Planned costs are considered
If you copy the dynamic items for the planned costs into the quotation, these then create the price, independent of whether a service product was copied into the quotation.
The service order is revenue-bearing and contains the revenues during billing.