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Message started by cathyh on 03/01/04 at 10:23:59

Title: estimated costs in work orders
Post by cathyh on 03/01/04 at 10:23:59

Is there a way to recalculate the estimated costs in a work order in process? We have a set of work orders for the same finished good that have widely varying estimated costs because the first ones were entered without labor hours established in the routing. The later ones were built after the routing was completed and show estimated labor costs for the work orders. Both the older and the newer work orders show estimated labor hours in the labor tab on the work order but when I save the work order and recalculate the estimated costs in the older ones the labor costs remain zero. I hope someone can understand this!

Title: Re: estimated costs in work orders
Post by aricon on 03/01/04 at 11:09:49

How would you want the system to recalculate cost that you as a user enter? Estimated costs are something you enter. Actuals are something the system collects... ???

Title: Re: estimated costs in work orders
Post by cathyh on 03/01/04 at 11:23:51

The problem seems to be that when we enter costs ( ie labor hours in the routing for the part number) after a work order has been created for that part number, the added labor hours show up in the labor tab for the work order but recalculating the estimated costs when saving the work order does not recalculate to include added costs for those hours. So any report that compares estimated and actual for a given work order is incorrect. AT least I think that is the sequence of events.

Title: Re: estimated costs in work orders
Post by Karen Mason on 03/01/04 at 12:20:24

Do you mean when you add estimated costs or actual labor costs?

If you enter estimated costs in the routing under ITEMS RO-A, those costs do not filter through to already created work orders. If the work order has no costs accrued, you can change it to an "S" type work order, than change it back to whatever it was (F or R), it'll pull your estimates in. If it has costs in it, you have to go to WO-K-A and update the routing for each workorder individually.

Title: Re: estimated costs in work orders
Post by cathyh on 03/02/04 at 14:27:47

SO, forget what I said might be the cause of the estimated labor costs not showing up in the work order, because we have been looking at a finished good that we make lots of and it has a long established routing and BOM and the costs are all rolled up in the BOM module. HEre is what happens, sporadically, that is we don't know why it happens with wome work orders and not others: The work order is made as a stock work order with DBA assigning the work order number. The work order is saved and the estimated costs are recalculated. WE go back into the work order to add a job number or some notes in WO-A and when we save the work order, and recalculate the estimated costs the labor costs disappear and the only way to get them back is to enter them down in the fields for labor, fixed overhead, and variable overhead. By the way it never occurred to us to enter a number in those fields, didn't know DBA would accept and entry there. Is this new?
If we recaculated estimated costs when we save the work order, they disappear again. If we don't recalculate estimated costs when saving the work order then they show up in the job cost summary total for estimated costs. We can not see a pattern with how these work orders are entered, they seem to be entered the same as others that don't lose the labor estimates when we save and recalculate. WE are stumped!
I am putting this in the problems- sporadic category also.