Bill of Materials > Activity Based Costing > Element Structures

Element Structures

You use this program to assign elements of cost to items and indicate the point of transition at which the recovery of costs must take place.

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Field Description
Stock code Indicate the stock code against which you want to assign elements of cost.

ABC costs are ignored for stock items that are defined as notional parts, co-products or kit types (type kit or type sub).
Incidence

Pre-production Apply the elements when you receive a bought-out item into stock from a purchase order (i.e. only the pre-production element of cost is recovered).
Manufacturing Apply the elements when you receive the item into stock from a job for a manufactured item (i.e. only the manufacturing element of cost is recovered).
Sales Apply the elements when the sale of the item is invoiced (i.e. only the sales element of the cost is recovered).
Element Indicate the element you want to assign to the stock item. Up to 20 elements can be assigned to each incident held against a stock item.

Element Structure Details

Field Description
Stock code The stock code you entered.
Incidence

The point of transition at which the recovery of costs must take place.
Element The element assigned to the stock item.
Driver quantity Assign a measure of relative importance to the cost defined against a particular product.

For example: If the cost element represents picking items from stock, then the driver quantity could indicate the number of items in the bill of materials. Alternatively, when purchasing items, the driver quantity could relate to the reliability of the supplier on a scale of say 1 to 10.

It is important that whenever an element is assigned a driver quantity, that the same relative measure is used. You can use the narrations held against the element to assist you.
Route details  
Selection
Option Description
All All routes printed on the Recoveries Estimate report will include the driver quantity in the unit quantity printed.
Single Assign a specific route for the structure. On the Recoveries Estimate report, the driver quantity against the selected structure is accumulated only for the selected route.
Route

If you enabled the Alternate routings setup option (Bill of Materials Setup) and selected an incidence of Manufacturing, then you can indicate the route applicable to the structure.
Narrations

Uses the Admin Notepad Editor (Monospaced Text) program to view text defined against the element.

Notes and warnings

Setup option considerations

  • Elements of cost can only be assigned to stock items against which activity based costing is required (Stock Codes).

Inserting Application Help

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

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  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.

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Removing the Application Help pane

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

  2. Confirm that you want to delete the pane.