Has anyone come accross a requirment for manufacturing where actual cost of a produced item is different depending on where it is produced? How have you handled this requirement? Bob Cole Advanced Consulting Concepts Palm Beach Gardens, FL 561-775-4890 bcole@accsouth.com
Hi Bob, Depending on how the company wanted to track actual cost, this may or may not be a customization. If the actual cost of a production order just went into the overall company average, there would no customization. But if the average was needed to be maintained by location, then there would need to be a cusomization. Send me an e-mail and I can elaborate Bob Bob
Hi, I think you can use Routing Versions. You can create Routing versions for every Locations with different cost. Then you can manually change Routing version in Production Order line and run function Refresh… . If you do not want select manually you can create new function GetRoutVersion1 in codeunit VertionMgt (99000756) that will select Version depends on location and replace code: “Routing Version Code” := VersionMgt.GetRoutVersion(“Routing No.”,“Starting Date”,TRUE); with code “Routing Version Code” := VersionMgt.GetRoutVersion1(“Routing No.”,“Starting Date”,TRUE,”Location Code”); in OnValidate trigger field “Routing No.” table Prod. Order Line (5406). I think it can help you. Valentin Gvozdev BMI Inc.
Actually, since there is no field to actually store the production cost by location in manufacturing, there is not a solution to this that an accountant would find acceptable. If you need more details on this, you might contact Jim Bresler, who has served in an advisory capacity to Navision US on the product and has done multiple implementations. He can be reached at jim@beckconsulting.com
Hi All, We try discussing issues that can be interesting to thousands of professionals around the word and when you ask somebody contact directly to you or other person it is better if you will public results of such contacts. Bob, If you find decision contacting with Bob Bergman or Jim Bresler public it please. I think now we are trying to discuss two different problems: - Cost of production (production order cost) - Inventory cost (or cost of goods sold) Navision has problem with managing Inventory average cost by locations (this problem solved in advanced distribution). But Navision do not have problem with managing production cost by location. We can create BOM variant and Routing Variant for different locations and add function that will select proper variant or user can select it manually. Valentin Gvozdev BMI Inc.
Hi, Valentin Gvozdev makes a good point about sharing information. In the interest of brevity on this forum, I have made my answers short and have invited people to e-mail me for elaboration. The questions being asked are simple in their form but are very complex in reality and cannot be answered completely with a post on a forum, or for that matter via e-mail. Many times the answer would even depend on what country you are installing the software in. So… with all of that said, I will make my responses a little less brief and invite all of those who would like additional information to e-mail me and I will, as a minimum, copy you on all of my e-mail correspondence on the topic. Bob Bergman Manufacturing Specialist Aston IT Group rbergman@frontline-us.com
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