Copy Costs to Cost Set One

Explanation

This activity is used to copy costs to cost set 1.

Cost set 1 is used as the standard cost set. You can copy costs from any cost set into cost set 1. If the site is defined using standard costs, then cost set 1 can only be updated by performing this activity. Since costs of cost set 1 cannot be overwritten, the current costs are moved to a history table, where they can be viewed for historical purposes.

One of the most common mistakes you make is that you forget to copy work center, labor, and/or subcontracting costs to a new cost set, which in this case is cost set 1. You can easily avoid this mistake by set the options Copy Work Center and Labor Class Costs and Copy Subcontracting Costs to enable.

Note: If you enable the Copy Work Center and Labor Class Costs option, all costs for work centers and labor classes in the site are copied from the selected cost set to cost set 1. Similarly if you enable the Copy Subcontracting Costs option, all subcontracting costs for outside operations are copied from the selected cost set to cost set 1. In order to copy the subcontracting costs, the cost of the subcontracted part needs to be entered in the Subcontracting Cost page.

There are several ways to quickly copy a part:

Note: Only costs connected to structure/routing alternative "*" are copied (due to the fact that the inventory valuation logic only handles "*"). When you copy part costs to cost set 1 (standard costs), the inventory is revalued, and new postings are created.

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 Copy Supplier Delivery Overhead option enabled.

This activity can be performed in the Copy Costs to Cost Set One, Part Cost and Part Costs pages.

Prerequisites

This activity has the following prerequisites:

System Effects

As a result of this activity: