Better cost tracking WBS or OAA(Operation Account assignment)

hi Experts,
One of my Client want to know whether,
. They are a big SAP shop  wants to track costs of projects at WBS level. They are implementing SAP Primavera .   Some consulting companies have suggested    SAP Project Systems but they has doubts of integration with MM orders and ability to automate. Also they use powerplant as there asset management system and whichever solution they go with should integrate with powerplant. Do we have expertise to suggest a solution?
Actually I want to know if anyone can give some comparative analysisis, WBS tracking cost is better   or OAA level tracking cost better  ?
Please advise.

Hi All ,
Thanks for reply previously i had developed reports to solve above problem. Though I expected SAP will include this in OAA functionality.
when we were working in EHP 3 pack we had few problems tracking inspection rounds and minor routine maintenance on equipments , the inspection rounds/ inspection planning functionality in EHP4 address this problem very clearly by providing option to include equipment's in tasklist hope SAP will bring option to send cost to equipment in operation in future.
Regards,
Srinivas

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