Effect of Activating Cross company costing in Material Ledger

Hi all,
We are live with ML from seven years and now we want to activate cross company costing. I would like to know if there will be an impact of this in the material ledger side. If anyone has comeacross this situation please share your ideas about this.
Thanks,
Santosh

thanq for reply.
IF I can update standard price in 3 views, how can i see three standard prices in different views?
I am facing another problem also here.
we have 3 company codes and 3 plants like VN01,SG01,IN01.
When I am doing standard cost estimation for IN01 with group costing variant for group valuation, I am getting error "Object was not costed", but where as If I use standard costing varaint ( PPC1), I am not getting any error, system is showing correct standard cost estimation?
Where as If I use group costing variant for other company codes, I am not getting any error.
Is there any customizing missed regarding standard cost estimation, when material ledger is activated?
regs,
ramesh

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