You use this program to change the rate indicator for individual operations held against an internal work center.
This enables you to determine the consequences of cost changes made to subcontract and labor costs, without affecting existing costs held in the system.
Labor costs are changed by altering the what-if work center rate indicator held against each operation.
| Field | Description |
|---|---|
| Change | Select this to change the rate indicator for the
currently selected work center. For an internal work center, you indicate the rate to use from the BOM Work Center Rates program. For a subcontract operation, you change the rate in the listview. |
| Save | Select this to save the changes you made to the What-if value for a subcontract operation. |
| Work Center | Indicate the work center you want to update. |
The stock items for which the work center is used are displayed in a listview.
| Column | Description |
|---|---|
| What-if |
Select this to change the subcontract what-if value held against a subcontract work center. An entry of zero here indicates that you want to use the current subcontract value against the operation when next you run the Cost Implosion program. |
Enabling the option: Allow cosmetic changes (Bill of Materials Setup) determines whether you are prompted to change the revision/release of affected items.
If you select to change the release, then the BOM is updated without changing the revision.
For automatic control, components added and deleted are considered significant changes, as are changes to the following fields:
Revision (Component)
Release (Component)
Unit of Measure
Quantity per
Fixed quantity flag
Parent per fixed quantity
Structure on date
Structure off date
Include from job number
Include to job number
Scrap percentage
Scrap quantity
Warehouse to use
If a structure or routing is not found when checking for cosmetic changes, the item is assumed to be a component and its revision/release is changed.
When saving cosmetic changes for an affected parent item, if a component against the BOM of the parent is also an affected item, then this component revision/release is not applied to the parent, as this constitutes a major change. This applies even if the component revision/release is changed at the time of applying BOM changes.
You can view and maintain operations defined against ECC-controlled items, providing there is an engineering change order in place for the parent item and BOM Maintenance is enabled against the order (Change Orders).