Copy Costs between Cost Sets
Explanation
This activity can be used to copy costs from one cost set to another.
Note: You cannot use this function to copy costs into cost set 1.
This optional task is to be performed by a system administrator or an equivalent
person.
This allows you to create alternate cost sets for a part using the values
defined for an existing cost set. This gives you greater flexibility in working
with costs and allows you to influence how part costs are calculated. You can
copy costs for the underlying structure and include only those parts whose costs
have been approved.
One of the most common mistakes made when using IFS/Costing is that you
forget to copy work center, labor, and/or subcontracting costs before
calculating costs on a new cost set. You can easily avoid this fault by
enable Copy Work Center and
Labor Class Costs and enable the Copy Subcontracting Costs
option.
Note: If you enable the Copy Work Center and Labor Class Costs
option, all costs for work centers and labor classes on the site are copied
from the selected cost set to the destination cost set. Similarly if you
enable
the Copy Subcontracting Costs option, all subcontracting costs for
outside operations are copied from the selected cost set to the destination
cost set. The subcontracting cost for a particular cost set can be entered from
the Subcontracting Cost page.
There are several ways to quickly copy a part:
- You can set the part status of obsolete top parts with zero on-hand
to Inactive (in the Inventory Part page), and then
order a copy of active parts only. The Part Status field in the
Copy Cost Set page
can be used for this purpose.
Part Cost Group has a higher
ranking compared to the Part Status.
If the Part Cost Group
is specified, then the system does not give consideration to the end items
(top parts).
If only the Part Status is specified, the system
will just filter out the end items (top parts) to start with and if the
Include Components option is not enabled, it will only copy the
end items that fulfill the part status criteria. This might result in an
unnecessary difference in shop order costing.
- You can do an incremental copy by enable the Incremental Copy
option. This includes only the parts that fulfill the following criterion:
Total Cost in Cost Set From<> Total Cost in Cost Set To. This
can significantly speed up the copy process.
If the Incremental
Copy option is enabled, then the system always uses include components.
For supplier delivery overheads defined in the source cost set, in order
to copy supplier delivery overhead into the destination cost set, it is required
to have the option Copy Supplier Delivery Overhead enabled.
Prerequisites
This activity has the following prerequisites:
- Cost sets must be defined.
- Sites must be defined.
- An inventory part with costs must be calculated in any cost set.
System Effects
As a result of this activity:
- Cost sets are copied, overwriting the costs in the selected cost set.
- Inventory part costs can be compared between different cost sets.
- For manufactured parts, the calculation adds costs of the components
to the parent parts.
- The cost set estimated material cost of the destination cost set for
all parts subjected to copying will be replaced with the costs of the source
cost set.
- The part-specific general overheads, material overheads, sales overheads,
purchase part delivery overheads and supplier for purchase part delivery
overheads defined for the source cost set will be copied into the destination
cost set. As a result, corresponding overhead records for the destination
cost set will be created and can be seen in respective clients for such
part connected overheads.
- For supplier delivery overheads, costs will be
copied to the destination cost set only if the option Copy Supplier Delivery
Overhead is enabled.