A costing system. The costing system includes a costing model and a costing engine. The costing model records parent-child relationships between a plurality of stages of a production line, and at least one valuation type for each stage. The costing engine retrieves a group of valuation type combinations...http://www.google.fr/patents/US7685075?utm_source=gb-gplus-shareBrevet US7685075 - Costing system and method