I know that on ver 6.10 541, you need to set costing in 'configurator pricing maintanance', assign the cost to a 'variable', and/or building cost thru options.
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 I believe you can assign the final cost to that 'variable' at the 'rules' stage.
You can write a routine to get the unit cost from Vantage based on the developed part number, or 'hard code' all of your 'quoting prices' in the configurator ( in which case the pricing updates will have to be done both in Vantage and the configurator.
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 I believe you can assign the final cost to that 'variable' at the 'rules' stage.
You can write a routine to get the unit cost from Vantage based on the developed part number, or 'hard code' all of your 'quoting prices' in the configurator ( in which case the pricing updates will have to be done both in Vantage and the configurator.
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--- On Thu, 10/9/08, rapat_mark <mtellefson@...> wrote:
From: rapat_mark <mtellefson@...>
Subject: [Vantage] Costs for Product Configurator
To: vantage@yahoogroups.com
Date: Thursday, October 9, 2008, 9:36 AM
I am still working on my first product configurator and I am having
trouble figuring out where the costs come from. We have always used
standard costing so everything in our part cost file is set to
standard cost. Due to unstable steel prices we now update our
standard costs quite often. Our sales department asked that as we
create the configurator that I find a way to make sure the quoted
price isn't always changing. We decided to create "quoting part
numbers" for all the major assemblies and assign the cost to them.
This mirrors what they do by hand now since they pull these assemblies
off an excel sheet and add them up.
I have all my rules put in and working correctly but I am getting zero
cost. For each quoting part number I created it as a purchased part
and put the cost in the standard cost field.
Question 1: Where does the cost come from?
Question 2: Is there a better way to accomplish this?
Mark
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