Maintain Costing Data

Use this function to:

• Set cost calculation status for a single part or for several parts at a time.
• Copy costs to cost set 1, or between cost sets.
• Trace cost bucket usage.
• Print a cost report - two reports are available; a basic one and a more detailed one.
• Replace cost template occurrences.
• Clean up part cost history data

Copy costs to cost set 1, or between cost sets.

Just like cost calculation, the copy cost set process treats part status and part cost group in a similar way.

• The part cost group has a higher ranking compared to the part status.
• If the part cost group is specified, then the system does not give consideration to the end items (top parts).
• If only the part status is specified, then the system will just filter out the end items to start with, and if the Include Components check box is not selected, it will only copy the end items that fulfill the part status criteria.

If Part Cost Group is used, then the system might create quite a large number of records in the Part Cost Bucket table. For example if we have a BOM where every part is connected to PCG A:

Example: 3 level structure where the top part is X, middle part is Y and bottom part is Z.

X

..Y

....Z

We will have the following result in the Part Cost Bucket tab:

X

..Y

....Z

+

Y

..Z

+

Z

You can see that this is quite a lot of duplicates. Multiply this with the number of cost buckets.
By using the end item criteria for Part Status you can keep the size of the table smaller, which leads to less disk storage usage and also better performance.