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.