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:

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:

System Effects

As a result of this activity: