You can copy from one cost type to another and specify an item or a category range. You can copy from the Frozen cost type, but you cannot copy to the Frozen cost type. Under average costing, you can copy from the Average cost type, but you cannot copy to the Average cost type. Under FIFO/LIFO costing, you can copy from the FIFO/LIFO cost type, but you cannot copy to the FIFO/LIFO cost type.

In a standard cost, inventory organization, you can perform a standard cost update from the newly copied costs. In average, FIFO, or LIFO cost, inventory organizations, copied costs are generally used for simulations or comparisons only.
You can copy item costs within an organization or across organizations.

Within an organization, you can also copy resource and overhead costs, or resource and overhead associations. There are three copying options:

• merge and update existing costs
• copy over new information only
• remove and replace all cost information

Across organizations, you have the flexibility to create new sub-elements, if required, or summarize the item costs over all sub-elements into a pre-defined, summary sub-element in the destination organization. You can use interorganizational cost copy to copy item cost information across two different organizations, specifying which items you want to include in the item cost copy.
Interorganizational cost copy supports supply chain cost rollup. Supply chain cost rollup enables you to estimate item costs created within BOM.

Copy Cost Examples: Copy from Cost Type 1 to Cost Type 2
Initial values in Cost Type 1 and Cost Type 2

The results for the Merge and Update Existing Costs option are: A = 20, B = 10, and C = 30. Item C did not exist in Cost Type 1, so C's value in Cost Type 2 does not change.
The results for the New Information Only option are: A = 20, B = 50, and C = 30. Item A did not exist in Cost Type 2, so its value is copied from Cost Type 1. Item B has a cost in Cost Type 2, so it's value does not change. Item C did not exist in Cost Type 1, so C's value in Cost Type 2 does not change.

The results for the Remove and Replace All Cost Information option are: A = 20, B = 10, and item C does not exist. These are the same values found in Cost Type 1; all values in Cost Type 1 replace those in Cost Type 2.