Entering item cost

Activity Overview

Glossary

Basics of using Ramco Enterprise Series web page

This page allows you to fetch the cost of purchased / subcontracted items either from inventory and Purchase Order / Sub contract order. Alternatively, the user can enter item cost if the consider item costs on is selected as ‘Manual entry’. For the purpose of manual entry, the user can set the basis for defaulting cost as either ‘Standard Cost’ or ‘Last Purchase Price’. After defaulting either the Standard cost / Last purchase price, the user can also increment / decrement costs.

The “Item Cost Entry” page appears.

The system displays the following:

Request ID.

The number identifying the current rollup session.

Status

The status of the request. It could be “Exploded”, “Exploded with Errors”, “Routing with Errors”, ”Routing complete”, “Rolled-up with errors”, “Rolled up” and blank.

Valid From Date

The date from which the rolled up cost is valid from.

Item Org. Unit

The organization unit where the items are selected for rollup

Include Scrap Factors

The values showing whether the scrap factors are included.

Cost Type

It could be the values predefined and taken from the “CSET Component”.

Rollup Option

The type of rollup option. It could be “Single Level” or “Multi Level”.

Process

Use the drop-down list box to select the type of process that you want to execute on the costs. You can select from “Explosion”, “Processing ”, “Rollup” and “All”.

Note: The system by default displays “All” on the launch of the page.

The system displays the following:

Consider Item Costs On

The type of costs item that is taken for consideration. It could be “Standard Cost”, “Last Purchase Price” and “Manual Entry”.

Basis For Defaulting Cost

The basis for defaulting cost on which the rollup was done. It could be “Maximum ”, “Minimum ”, “Average” if Consider Item costs on field is ‘Last Purchase Price’ and blank for other values loaded in the Consider Item costs on field.

Source For Purchased And Subcontracted Items

The source considered for items, which are both ‘Purchased’ and ‘Subcontracted’. It could be “Purchased” and “Sub-contracted”.

Increase / Decrease Percentage

A number identifying the increase or decrease in the percentage of the costs (Integer).

The system displays the following in the “Item Details” group box:

Root Item Variant

The code identifying the root item variant of the cost.

Item Code

The code identifying the item.

Item Variant

The code identifying the item variant.

UOM

The code identifying the unit of measure

Cost Element

The code identifying the normal cost element associated to the stock account code.

Cost

A unique number identifying the unit cost (Integer).

The system displays the following:

Std. Cost

The standard cost of the items fetched from item administration

Last Purchase Price

The last purchase price from Purchase / Sub contracting, as the case may be.

Valid Date

The date showing the valid date of the last purchase price.

Source

The source of the item. It could be “Purchased” or “Sub-contracted”

Item Variant Description

A textual description of the item variant.

The system retrieves the item cost for purchased / subcontracted items and fills in the Standard Cost and Last Purchase Price columns in the multiline.

The system creates and saves the item cost for the request ID.

The system saves all the details and performs the rollup of the costs.           

To proceed, carry out the following