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		<Title xmlns:ssa="http://www.ssaglobal.com" xmlns:HTML="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40">To estimate service order costs</Title>
		<Keyword><Level1>Contract</Level1>
			<Level2>price calculation</Level2>
		</Keyword>
		<Keyword><Level1>Price calculation</Level1>
			<Level2>contract</Level2>
		</Keyword>
		<Keyword><Level1>Budgeted service order costs</Level1>
		</Keyword>
	</Header>
	<GeneralSection><List><ListIntro>You can specify a service order's <Link href="/baanerp/ts/glossary/glossary#Requirements.ts" role="glossary">requirements</Link> in the following sessions:</ListIntro>
			<ListItem><GUIRef href="/baanerp/ts/soc/tssoc2120m000" role="session">Service Order Estimated Material Costs (tssoc2120m000)</GUIRef>
			</ListItem>
			<ListItem><GUIRef href="/baanerp/ts/soc/tssoc2130m000" role="session">Service Order Estimated Labor Costs (tssoc2130m000)</GUIRef>
			</ListItem>
			<ListItem><GUIRef href="/baanerp/ts/soc/tssoc2140m000" role="session">Service Order Estimated Other Costs (tssoc2140m000)</GUIRef>
			</ListItem>
		</List>
		<Paragraph>A <Link href="/baanerp/tc/glossary/glossary#CostCompon.tc" role="glossary">cost component</Link>, used as a method for cost control, must be related to every estimated cost line and actual cost line.</Paragraph>
		<List><ListIntro>You can use the estimated service order costs for the following purposes:</ListIntro>
			<ListItem>To budget the costs (that are task setting) of carrying out the service order when price agreements are fixed.</ListItem>
			<ListItem>To ensure that the materials are available by allocating or ordering the required materials.</ListItem>
			<ListItem>To ensure that the service engineers are available by allocating the required service engineers.</ListItem>
			<ListItem>To ensure that the tools are available by allocating the required tools.</ListItem>
		</List>
		<Note><SectionTitle>Note</SectionTitle>
			<List><ListItem>When you add a reference activity to a service order, the reference activity's cost lines are copied to the service order's requirements.</ListItem>
				<ListItem>If you generate a service order from a planned activity, a call, or a field change order, the cost lines linked to the constituent reference activities are copied to the service order's requirements.</ListItem>
			</List>
		</Note>
	</GeneralSection>
	<RelatedTopics><SectionTitle>Related topics</SectionTitle>
		<RelTopic><Link href="/baanerp/ts/onlinemanual/000028" role="manual">To generate service orders</Link>
		</RelTopic>
		<RelTopic><Link href="/baanerp/ts/onlinemanual/000029" role="manual">To transfer planned activities to service orders</Link>
		</RelTopic>
	</RelatedTopics>
</ManualTopic>
