Search path for labor rates (Service contract)

For service contracts and service quotations, LN allows you to specify the search criteria to retrieve labor rate code when you define labor cost terms. Based on this defaulted labor rate code the cost and sales rates are used to calculate the cost and sales amount of the labor cost term.

The Search Path field in the Contract Management Parameters (tsctm0100m000) session allows you to define three attributes that the LN uses to retrieve labor rate codes.

LN retrieves the labor rate in the following order:

  • Level 1
  • Level 2
  • Level 3

LN uses this search criterion to determine the labor rate for a service contract or a service quotation. If the labor rate is not specified at Level 1, the labor rate specified at level 2 is considered. If the labor rate is not specified at Level 2, the labor rate specified at level 3 is considered.

The labor rate can be defaulted from the following possible values defined for each level:

  • Department
  • Service Area
  • Serialized Item Group
  • Installation Group
  • Reference Activity
  • Task
  • Skill
  • Not Applicable
Example

Default labor rate code is retrieved from the Task associated with the labor cost term defined in the Contract Labor Terms (tsctm1132m300) session. If no Task is specified, it is retrieved from the Reference Activity defined in the Contract Configuration Lines (tsctm1110m300) session. If no labor rate code is defined for the Reference Activity, the labor rate code is retrieved from the Service Department of the Reference Activity.

Note

ERP Enterprise does not allow you to select the same option at any two levels. For example, if level 1 is set to Department, the second and third level cannot be set to Department.

The second level can only be set when the value in first level is not set to ‘Not Applicable’. The third level can only be set when the value in second level is not set to ‘Not Applicable’.