Labor/Labor Cost

Enter the labor portion of the total cost for the current item.

Note:  When applying overhead to material costs, use material overhead rates instead of labor costs. Fixed and variable labor overhead rates can be entered on the Departments form. The system applies material, labor, and machine overhead rates according to the criteria entered in the Overhead Basis field on the Work Centers form.

On the Current Materials form, you can only update this field when the Rev Track field on the Items form is set to No. If the Rev Track field is set to Yes, you can update this field via an ECN.

The Fixed Overhead Cost field entered on the Production Schedule Item Materials or Production Schedule Release Materials forms will only be used for non-inventoried items. The system will use the values from this form for costing.

While you can update this field for an inventoried item, the system will ignore the update made on this form and use the appropriate costing for the item.

On the Standard Materials form, this field displays the labor cost component of the item multiplied by the quantity of the item.