Bill of Materials > What-if Costing > Update What-if Bought Out Cost

Update What-if Bought Out Cost

You use this program to simulate the consequence of changing your material costs for bought out items, without affecting existing costs held on the system.

Once you have changed the costs for a range of selected stock items, you can use the Cost Implosion program to re-cost stock items from raw material level through to the finished product.

BOM Update What-if Bought Out Cost

Field Description
Start Processing Select this function to commence processing.
Information These options enable you to indicate the criteria according to which you want to include stock codes in the update.
Source cost  
Source selection This enables you to indicate the source to use for updating the bought out items.

Inventory cost and Last cost are obtained from the Inventory Warehouse table.

BOM costs are obtained from the Inventory Warehouse table if BOM is retained by warehouse (i.e. Apply warehouse BOM costs - Inventory Setup is selected) or, if not, then from the Inventory Master.

What-if cost is obtained from the table currently being updated.

FieldDescription
What-if costSelect this to use the what-if cost as the source for updating your current what-if costs.
Inventory cost

Select this to use the inventory cost as the source for updating your current what-if costs.

Only the Warehouse to use for each stock item is updated.

BOM cost

Select this to use the bill of material cost as the source for updating your current what-if costs.

If you selected the option: Apply warehouse BOM costs (Inventory Setup - General tab), then the BOM costs held against the warehouse (Warehouses for Stock Code) are used in the calculation and not the BOM costs held against the stock item (Stock Code Maintenance - Other tab).

When you select this option, you can indicate which warehouses you want to update

Last costSelect this to use the last cost as the source for updating your current what-if costs.
Transfer zero costs Select this to transfer costs, regardless of whether these costs are zero.
Percentage change  
Percentage selection This enables you to indicate the percentage by which you want to change the source cost.
FieldDescription
IncreaseSelect this to apply a percentage increase to the source cost when updating the current what-if costs.
DecreaseSelect this to apply a percentage decrease to the source cost when updating the current what-if costs.
NoneSelect this if you do not want to apply a percentage to the source cost.
Percent Indicate the specific percentage according to which you want to increase/decrease the source cost.
Stock codes  
Stock code selection This enables you to indicate the stock code(s) you want to include in the update.
Warehouses  
Apply cost from Warehouse To Use only Select this to only update costs from the warehouse to use. This only applies if your Source cost selection is Inventory cost or Last cost.
Warehouse selection This enables you to indicate the warehouse(s) for which you want to include stock codes for updating.

This option only applies if you selected the option: Apply warehouse BOM costs (Inventory Setup - General tab) and if the option Apply cost from Warehouse To Use only is not selected.
Product classes  
Product class selection This enables you to indicate the product class(es) according to which you want to include stock codes for updating.
Suppliers  
Supplier selection This enables you to indicate the supplier(s) according to which you want to include stock codes for updating.

Inserting Application Help

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  2. Right-click any form field.

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  3. Select Insert Application Help from the context-sensitive menu.

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Removing the Application Help pane

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