Costing Breaks (tppdm3600m000)

Use this session to create costing breaks for a project.

You can use costing breaks to move the costs from the top demand project pegs to other project WBS levels. You can identify other specific cost types such as labor, material, subcontracting, and so on to redirect the costs to the other WBS levels.

You can register the costing breaks for:

Note

Infor LN allows you to create costing breaks for projects only if the Costing Breaks checkbox in the Implemented Software Components (tccom0100s000) session is selected.

You can also create costing breaks for blank projects with the project code not specified in the Project field. You must specify a standard element or a standard activity to create costing breaks for a blank project.

The standard activities used to create costing breaks must be of the type Control Account or Work Package.

Costing breaks cannot be created for the projects of the type Internal and Template.

Infor LN also allows you to manually copy the costing breaks from one project to another.

The costing break lines on the tabs refer to the following sessions:

  • Costing Breaks Production Material (tppdm3101m000)
  • Costing Breaks Production Resources (tppdm3102m000)
  • Costing Breaks Service Depot Repair Material (tppdm3103m000)
  • Costing Breaks Service Depot Repair Labor (tppdm3104m000)
  • Costing Breaks Service Depot Repair Other (tppdm3105m000)

Related topics

 

Project
The code that identifies the project for which the costing break is created.
Description
The description or name of the code.
Project Status
The project status.
Active Plan
The code that identifies the active plan of the project.
Description
The description or name of the code.

 

Remove empty Cost Pegs
Removes all the cost pegs that are not linked to costing breaks.
Validate
Checks the validity of the costing breaks for the project. Infor LN generates a report.
Delete all Costing Breaks
Deletes all the costing breaks for the project.