Effective Cost Component Structure (ticpr0112m000)

Use this session to display the list of cost components for the selected item.

 

Cost Component

A cost component is a user-defined category for the classification of costs.

Cost components have the following functions:

  • To break down an item's standard cost, sales price, or valuation price.
  • To create a comparison between the estimated production order costs and the actual production order costs.
  • To calculate production variances.
  • To view the distribution of your costs over the various cost components in the Cost Accounting module.

Cost components can be of the following cost types:

  • Material Costs
  • Operation Costs
  • Surcharge on Material Costs
  • Surcharge on Operation Costs
  • WIP Transfer Costs
  • General Costs
Note

If you use Assembly Control (ASC), you cannot use cost components of the General Costs type.

Cost Component

The description or name of the code.

Detailed/Aggregated Cost Component

The type of cost component that is part of the cost component structure.

The types of cost components are: