Bill of Materials > BOM Processes > Transfer BOM Costs to Wh Costs

Transfer BOM Costs to Wh Costs

You use this program to transfer the bill of material costs (calculated by the Relationship Validation program) to the unit cost field of a stock item (Inventory Warehouse Maintenance for Stock Code).

Transfer BOM Costs to Warehouse Costs

Field Description
Start Processing Select this to commence processing.
[Note]
  • If Inventory is linked to General Ledger in detail or summary (General Ledger Integration) then a record of each cost change transaction is made according to the Inventory Ledger interface options.
  • The BOM costs defined against the warehouse (Inventory Warehouse Maintenance for Stock Code) are used in the calculation, and not the BOM costs defined against the stock item (Stock Codes) when the option: Apply warehouse BOM costs is enabled (Inventory Setup).
  • If you selected the option: Costing per warehouse (Inventory Setup) and the costing method defined against the warehouse is FIFO (Browse on Warehouses) then the unit cost is not updated.
  • When transferring BOM costs to warehouse costs and you are using Standard costing, then the current cost is stored as the last cost before the new cost is updated. Note that the last cost is only updated against Made-in, Co-product and By-product items.

Print Select this to print the information currently displayed in the Report pane.
Save Form Values This option is only enabled in Design mode (Automation Design). Your selections are saved and applied when the program is run in automated mode.

Form values and defaults are applied at operator level. They are not saved at role or group level.

Information

Field Description
Warehouse costs to update

Warehouse cost to update

Indicate which warehouse costs you want to update.

Option Description
Warehouse to use cost only Select this to update the unit cost of stock items only for the warehouse indicated at the Warehouse to use field (Stock Codes).
Cost in all warehouses Select this to update the unit cost of stock items held in all warehouses.
Warehouses within range Select this to update the unit cost of stock items for a selected range of warehouses.
From warehouse Indicate the first warehouse in the range of warehouses to update.
To warehouse Indicate the last warehouse in the range of warehouses to update.
Cost change journal  
Reference Indicate the reference that you want to assign to any cost changes made during this run of the program.
Additional reference Enter an additional reference that you want to assign to any cost changes made during this run of the program.
Options  
Update warehouse if BOM cost is zero Select this to allow bill of materials with zero costs to update the warehouse cost.
Report warehouse to use is missing

Select this to generate a message if the warehouse to use is not defined.

You can only access this option if you selected the Warehouse to use cost only option.
Output journals with zero value

If you select his option, then when you transfer the BOM cost to the warehouse cost, all cost changes including zero value changes are written to the Inventory Journal file/table and, by extension, to the General Ledger cost changes account.

If you do not select this option, then any cost change against an item in a warehouse that results in a transaction value of zero is not output to the inventory journal file/table. A zero value cost change occurs when there is a zero quantity of the item on hand.

All cost changes are still recorded in the inventory movements file/table to ensure that a log of these changes exists, irrespective of your selection at this option.

After processing completed

These options are displayed within programs that can be automated. They enable you to indicate the action you want to perform once processing is complete (see Automation Design).

Report

The information in this pane is displayed once processing is complete, providing you did not select the option: After processing completed > Close this application.

The results of processing the function you selected are displayed.

You use the After processing completed options to print or email this information.

Notes and warnings

Prerequisites

  • You cannot run this program if you only ran the Cost Implosion for a range of stock codes. You must run the Cost Implosion for all stock codes.

    If a range of stock codes were updated on one Cost Implosion run and another range of stock codes were updated on a different run, then the Implosion numbers in the Inventory Master table will differ, resulting in you not being able to do the costs transfer.

Restrictions and limits

  • You cannot run this program if FIFO or LIFO costing is installed (Inventory Setup).

eSignature considerations

Electronic Signatures provide security access, transaction logging and event triggering. This enables you to increase control over your system changes.

Access to the following eSignature transactions within this program can be restricted at Operator, Group, Role or Company level. You configure this using the eSignature Setup program.

eSignature Transaction Description
BOM Transfer BOM to warehouse costs

Controls access to the Transfer BOM Costs to Warehouse Costs program.

Coding considerations

  • To use the cost against an alternate route when you transfer costs from BOM to Warehouse you must select the Apply Warehouse BOM costs option (Inventory Setup).

  • Any change made to the Inventory unit cost is recorded:

    • in the stock movement files if stock movements are being retained for the relevant stock code

    • in the Inventory journal file.

Hints and tips

  • You can use the Structure and Routing Archive program to view the differences between the BOM and Inventory costs before using the Transfer BOM Costs to Warehouse Costs program to transfer the costs.

Inserting Application Help

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  1. Open the program for which you want to insert application help into a customized pane.

    This functionality is only available for a program that has panes.

  2. Right-click any form field.

    You can also click the triangle menu icon that appears in the title area of a pane.

  3. Select Insert Application Help from the context-sensitive menu.

    The application help appears in a pane within your program. You can reposition the pane using the docking stickers or pin it to the program window.

Removing the Application Help pane

If you no longer want to display application help in a pane for your current program, you can simply remove it.

  1. Select the Close icon in the right-hand corner of the application help pane.

  2. Confirm that you want to delete the pane.