Oops! I forgot to divide the job costs by the job quantity before I compared them to the InvcDtl costs. I am getting accurate costs for configured units in InvcDtl. Sorry about the misinformation.
--- In vantage@yahoogroups.com, "kirstin.brandt" <kirstin.brandt@...> wrote:
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> We have all our configured parts set to Last cost, Non-stock and Quantity bearing. The COS shown on the Invoice records in the WIP Reconciliation report is exactly the same as the Actual Costs in the job costing screen.
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> I'm also seeing some strange costs in InvcDtl, but I don't see that they book to the G/L anywhere. Does anybody know if these are just reference costs (they also show $0 on credit memos generated from RMAs) or are actually booking somewhere?
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> --- In vantage@yahoogroups.com, "roomurray" <rupert@> wrote:
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> > I've done some tests on this and although it does differ the actual COS of the part is still incorrect and this will be the case with all our configured parts. As all our configurators have a great deal of options within them the cost varies significantly between one job to the next and the way cos is being generated it will never give a representation of the true cost.
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> > A truer cost of the product, I found, is in the jobasmble tables (shown in job tracker costs) - but its how to get these that is the problem.
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> > --- In vantage@yahoogroups.com, "Gary Parfrey" <garyp@> wrote:
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> > > Rupert
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> > > As per Marks comment you should always have your configurators set to
> > > average/actual. The invcdtl cost then will always reflect the job
> > > assembly 0 total cost proportionately to the job quantity being shipped.
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> > > Gary
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> > > From: vantage@yahoogroups.com [mailto:vantage@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf
> > > Of roomurray
> > > Sent: 07 September 2009 13:42
> > > To: vantage@yahoogroups.com
> > > Subject: [Vantage] Invdtl Material Cost
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> > > We run a lot of products that have Large configurations wihtin them - I
> > > was looking at some of the material costs in Invdtl and although the
> > > Part has been configured the material costs reflects the full cost of
> > > the part (ie with all the parts that are not in the configured BOM)
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> > > Has anyone come accross this before?
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