Costing Analysis Workbench

Use this form to create and work with costing alternatives.

These areas are provided for use with all costing alternative records:

Items area: For manually adding manufactured items to a costing alternative. The bottom section of the area provides a tree view of the routing associated with an item selected in the grid.

Compare area: For comparing your costing alternative record with current or standard costs, or with the costs in another costing alternative.

These areas are available for use if you do not copy the existing routing for the costing alternative record. You can add, modify, or remove records on these areas.

Product Codes area: For changing mark-up factors, fixed and variable material overhead rates, and purchase overhead costs.
Departments area: For changing fixed and variable labor overhead rates.
Work Centers area: For changing setup rates, run labor rates, fixed and variable machine overhead rates, overhead basis, and efficiency percent.
Materials area: For setting up revised costs for purchased items. For example, you could change the material cost for aluminum as well as the freight, duty, brokerage, insurance, and local freight costs. The unit cost on this area is the sum of all other fields.

Note: If a manufactured item is added to the Materials area, its manufacturing costs are not used in the costing alternative. The purchased costs are used instead of the original manufacturing costs.