Business process in activity base costing

Hi All,
We have implemented ABC to compute cost for sales order.
We defined business process & templates to compute the cost.
There is one scenario where I need expert advice.
For one of the cost element order to cash have 2 rates one is for a order & another is for a line item in that order.For bith rate we defined separate business process & accordingly mainatined rate in CP26.
In template selected function CalculationRowResult to calculate cost by considering an order as a one number. but we have one case where we want to calculate cost for each line item of sales order. EG if one order has 3 line items & rate is $1 then cost is
3*1=3.
Could anyone please tell me which function to use to calculate number of line items from an order? or there is any other standard method to calculate cost?
Thanks
Anagha

Hi,
Greetings,
I think, you have to understand the requirement and adaptabilty of ABC as well Activity price.
Each sale order will have atleast one Order item and Header.
Generally,header covers for all items and item specifically cover Sale order Item.
As I know in sale Order costing means Sale Order item costing.when other cost objects are linked with sale Order Item,
Settlement happens to SO item.
I request you, for my understanding,pl.confirm your intention to apply cost at header level and item level !
Please provide more inputs on contemplated scenario for better understanding of your problem.
Thanks - GS Rao

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Inquiry -> Quotation ->Sales Order ->Delivery ->Invoice -> Return -> Credit memo
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VA12 Change Inquiry
VA13 Display Inquiry
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quotation
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Inquiry - A customers request to a company that they provide a quotation or sales information without obligation. An inquiry can relate to materials or services, conditions and if necessary delivery dates. The sales area that accepts the inquiry becomes responsible for further processing.
Quotation - A quotation presents the customer with a legally binding offer for delivering a product or providing a service within certain fixed conditions. This offer is legally binding for the company within a specified time period. A sales area can reply to a customer inquiry with a customer quotation or use it to refer to a business partner contact.
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Logistics
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Logistics
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2) If the item Category group is LUMF, the item category of the BOM item is TAP. In the definition of which the same above setting has to be done.
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Logistics
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Logistics
Sales and Distribution
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SPRO
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Sl. No. Listing Exclusion
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2 A 1 A 2
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Step 2: - Maintain Access sequences for listing / exclusion
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Maintaining the records for Material Determination: -
SPRO
Logistics
Sales and Distribution
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Sales and Distribution
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Sales and Distribution
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QuantityNMS Contract
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Value Contract GeneralWK1
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Cash Sale: - Its an order type which we use, when the customer orders picks up the goods and pays for the goods immediately the delivery is processed as soon as the order has been entered and the billing is related to the order.
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VA01
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Note: - In BVN the field Credit Active is not checked.
Note: - when we save the cash sale document the system will automatically create the delivery document. For this the following customizing setting has to be done.
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VA01
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