Material pricing – overview

Prices of material such as copper, silver, gold, and aluminum often fluctuate. Because these prices usually represent a significant part of the finished goods' value, specific monitoring is required to minimize the risk and exposure. You can use material price surcharges to account for price increases of material and you can use material price surcharge costs to cover additional material-related costs.

If the Material Pricing check box is selected in the Implemented Software Components (tccom0500m000) session and the Material Pricing in Procurement and/or Material Pricing in Sales check boxes are selected in the Material Price Parameters (tcmpr0100m000) session, LN calculates the material price and includes this price in the (document line) price for purchase and sales documents. Consequently, these documents include real time prices.

The following is considered when material prices are calculated for purchase and sales documents:

Material pricing setup

Before you can calculate material prices, you must specify the master data.

Note

If you use the DEM Content Pack with Infor LN, consider using the MCO3001 (Material Pricing Procurement) and MCO3002 (Material Pricing Sales) wizards to set up material pricing. You can execute this predefined wizard from the Wizards by Project Model (tgwzr4502m000) session after you specified the business function model for your company. See Business function model.

Retrieving material price information

After you set up the material pricing master data, material price information can be retrieved and material prices can be calculated for sales and purchase documents.

For more information, refer to Retrieving material price information – general logic.

Updating material price information

After the material price information is retrieved for a purchase or sales document, the material price information can be updated.

For more information, refer to Updating material price information – general logic.