Determine variable value based on characteristic row value

Hi all,
Am basically looking for a bit of advice from those wiser than myself.
I have a requirement to build an Activity per Driver report which is essentially a list of cost centres down the page, with Productive Hours (an SKF) in one column, the driver (another SKF) in the next column, and then a calculation.
Sounds easy, however the SKF for the driver differs depending on the cost centre. . . .
For example, cost centre 100 might be driven by ACTIV1 whereas cost centre 200 might be driven by ACTIV2 and then cost centre 300 might also be driven by ACTIV1.
I have come up with 2 possible solutions ;
1) Set the SKF as an attribute of the cost centre and then use this as the restriction in the report. Easiest, most standard way of setting it up, however the problem here is that some cost centres use a number of SKFs (represented by a hierarchy node) as their activity driver. I can't set a hierarchy node as an attribute, so I don't know how this could work for those cost centre with more than one SFK accumulating as their driver.
2) Maintain a Cost Centre to SKF Driver mapping table in R/3 which is loaded into an ODS in BW. Create the report using an exit variable for the driver, which queries the ODS to retrieve the appropriate SKF value(s) for each cost centre. Could this work - not sure how I know which cost centre to retrieve the driver for in the exit coding ?
Any suggestions would be welcomed. Surely this can't be a unique problem.
Many thanks,
Blair

I should have explained better before. I have one invoice template and we want to keep it one template for all companies. Each invoice is run individually, each companies footer is different, I am calling multiple headers and footers based on each company. Since the headers and footers are different I need to be able to add different amounts of lines and the end of each invoice depending on that company. I have accounted for the page break in my logic based on the amount lines the page is long. I just need a dynamic variable that I can assign different values on the fly.
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