Quote from GasGiant on 02/08/08 at 07:19:58:

 
So, it sounds like you use Standard Costs(?) We use Average. We maintain and rollup Standard Costs so we can do Estimates and have something to compare our Actual and Averages to. However, Standard Cost (because it uses Lot Size) will never work for us, as our actual lot sizes for the same item can run from 20 to 2000 and the setup costs will make the overall cost vary up to a factor of 10.
 
 
Quote from GasGiant on 02/08/08 at 07:19:58:

 
You're both saying the same thing. NOT using Standard means USING Average.
 
As to the reason why it makes perfect sense. It's trying to keep you from making a mistake. The workaround if you really do know what you're doing (which has already been said or at least alluded to, I think) is change the Average in IN-K, make the adjustment in IN-C, then change the Average back in IN-C (not necessarily to what it was, though...).

We use average costs as well.  I can understand why IN-C works that way now.  It seems that many people use the standard costs functions (not fully, because if your costing method is average, then the only things in standard costs are materials and labor normally), is a) because you can't directly roll up average costs, and have to use the standard costs programs for things like recalculating COGS when you're doing things like new pricing and b) because it gives you a place to store what should be good costs data that can be used to compare with average and last to see if something is out of whack.
The person who is doing our purchasing now used to work for a large company that did full-blown standard costing.  As she described it to me, it was a very detailed process, including getting price increase projections from vendors, researching trends, recacluating labor rates, etc.  As we are a small company, we can't devote the resources to do this.
I do not profess to be anywhere near an expert at this, so maybe that's why I think the whole use standard cost to rollup your average costs is a little strange.
On a somewhat off-topic note, how do some of you folks handle adjusting items into inventory that were free, such as samples.  If you put them in at last or average cost, are you technically over-stating your inventory value?  If you put them in a 0.01, you hose your average cost.

Quote from Vman on 02/08/08 at 12:23:12:

 
We have tried the  IN-C at $.01 way, but have changed to creating a Purchase order for samples.  That way there is a record (audit trail) in the system as to when the sample was received. The sample can be a direct job receipt or issued to multiple work order(s) and the production manager can inquire into EVO as to whether the sample has arrived so he can finish the job on the floor.
 
Upon Receiving the PO, the item either goes directly to the work order (job receipt) at $0 or can go into inventory at $0
If there is a pre-existing qty in inventory and the purchase order receipt is not directly to a job, EVO will average the $0 cost of the po receipt with those already in inventory when the next work order issue is performed.

Quote from dameng on 02/11/08 at 22:29:37:

 
Dave,
 
Our costing is set to Average. That's why I don't understand why this is happening. Especially the use of Standard when we have positive UOH. Something is very wrong.

Cathy,
 
I certainly can't rule out the possibility that someone occasionally uses Standard at Finished Production
 
However, if you look at the the example you will see
WO receipt at 0.9217,
Shipment at 154.1170.

I don't know if there is any way to find out what the Average was at that time, but you can see from the previous transactions that it was under a dollar.

Quote from GasGiant on 02/15/08 at 09:51:44:

 
I can assure you that did not happen. Know one here but me even knows what IN-K is.
 
And there are other items with exactly the same problem.

IN-O looks just like the Trans list in IN-A
 

VMan,
 
I appreciate your response, but the problem is not material received into stock at the wrong cost. It appears that sometimes it posts as Standard Cost when it should be using Average.
 
This MAY be related to the "Enter finished production at Invoice posting" add-on that I have, since there have been and still are problems with that program. Although these SOs were for from-stock material, not made to order with SO-N.
 
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