When quoting in Epicor, is there a way for the Quote Engineering or Worksheet screens to recalculate BOM costs based on larger batch sizes?
For example, I have a part where the Method Tracker > BOM Costs screen shows a unit cost of £1,219 for a quantity of 1. If I change the quantity to 2, the cost per unit drops to £869 , due to setup costs on BOM parts being spread over more units.
However, when I add this part as a material on a quote, Epicor uses the £1,219 unit cost , and multiplies it by the quantity—ignoring the reduced cost per unit for larger batch sizes.
Is there a way to account for these cost savings during quoting?
Also do you have the fixed setup time and fixed quantities in your bill of material? Those are the costs which you would spread over the total quantity you are quoting, the “batch size,” you are referring to.
Yes, the BOM for the Quote was pulled in using ‘Get Details’. This part is one of the items on the BOM.
The method for the part has some operations with fixed setup hours.
It seems the Quote Engineering screen is just using the value from Part > Cost (per below) - instead of calculating/rolling up the BOM costs, from the Part’s Method, using the batch qty required on the Quote.
Zane, I am very interested in answering this question and I think 7 months ago I could have because I was working through a scenario really close to this.
There are two consultants I would reach out to at Epicor, Burdell Fossum and/or Heidi Sohler.
Other than that, maybe @Nancy_Hoyt has experience with this.
Are you adding quantity breaks in for the different quantities, or just entering the quantity in the expected/order? I was under the impression that you had to use the quantity breaks to have it calculate correctly.
Sorry - not too much useful to offer here. We had difficulties years back with the way that the material burden was done on the worksheet using our standard costed parts. We just did a different report to satisfy our needs. However we don’t have a whole lotta costing lot size / batches going on nor price breaks in system. Our manufacturing volume is generally low (pumps) compared to many other Epicor users it seems.
