Usage of billing & activity type in PS

1. What is the significance of activity type and billing element in sales order.
2. Can we assign activity type as well as billing element to same wbs element.
Edited by: Pooja Rawat on Dec 8, 2009 3:46 PM

Dear,
         Billing element assigned to Planning Profile OPSB and it carry the revenue planning from sales order or quptation to Project.
         Activity type carries the cost of activity to work center and it is assigned to master data of Work center.
         Billing element is for plan and actual revenue and activity type is for the expenditure and for one WBS purpose of both is
        diffrent as given above.And both can be used is revenue and expendature is comming.
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