Cost Estimation
Cost Estimation
Selecting Cost Estination from the wizards menu that can be found in taskbar opens the Cost Estimation window.
Cost estimation is peformed to calculate production cost of products and semi-finished products which are produced and assembled. Here belong items of type P - Product having their own product structure. That is, assembly parts and operations as specified in product specificatons. Product specifications specify quantities of planned (standard) materials used and work.
By adequately specifiying resource allows to include indirect production cost.
Having used the appropriate key you can link general operating cost with resources.
Most products for which you want to make an assessment usually have multi-level specification structure. Calculated cost estimation usually shows structure of cost across all levels. The general cost for built-in materials and the work done is expressed in the currency specified.
Cost estimation can be shown in the following two ways: Detailed cost estimation of an item together with production cost across all specification structure or summary cost estimation for a specific grouip of products containing only summary data.
The price of materials and work can be determined according to various criteria when performing cost estimation. On the other hand, it can be done by using settings for manufacturing document types.
Main window consists of multiple sections:
- Topmost you will find a taskbar plus the name of application (left) and commands (right). Click
to generate cost estimation report.
- Below you can see a panel with criteria:
- The bottom section displays the following depending on the selected type of cost estimation:
Select items to use in cost estimation on the Criteria panel and then set whether to use detailed or summary type of cost estimation as well as settings for pricing. To display data click Refresh Data.
Set-up pricing ind methods used for cost estimation by selecting the Custom option in the window.
Selecting the Custom option two additional boxes appear where you can set price for use in cost estimation. Price of Material in Cost Estiamtion and Price of Operations in Cost Estimation correspond to the data entered in the Administration Panel (Settings | Program Parameters | Items | General - the Pricing Level Names group).
The second option is to select manufacturing document type using the same login in cost estimation as set in the manufacturing document types as shown below.
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A special SQL - I procedure can be created for specific requirements in structuring and creating cost estimation. It is called from cost estimation window.
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The following error si returned in case of errors appearing in cost estimation:
IRIS 4644 - Error in specification structure