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Use Item costs to identify unexpected planned costs and view the data behind each amount.

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Before you start

  • You need read access to item costs.
  • The items must exist in the catalog.
  • To interpret a manufactured item’s breakdown, also review its recipe, components and employee and resource hourly costs.
  • To interpret a purchased item, review its purchase orders.

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Review the list

Path: Costs > Cost objects > Items
1

Find the item

Search by code or name. Sort or filter the list to narrow the results.
2

Compare planned cost

Review Materials/unit, Labor/unit, Machine/unit and Planned cost/unit.
3

Open the details

In Actions, open the item. You go directly to the Costs tab.

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Interpret the details

The Costs tab shows the planned total cost per unit and its breakdown. For purchased items, the details include related purchase orders. For manufactured items, they show the components used to calculate planned cost.
The materials, labor and machine breakdown is informative. The editable amount is Planned total cost per unit.

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Correct a planned cost

1

Choose how to maintain the cost

Select Yes in Update cost automatically to recalculate it from purchasing or manufacturing data. Select No to maintain a manual amount.
2

Enter the manual amount if applicable

If you disabled automatic updates, complete Planned total cost per unit (€).
3

Save the changes

Click Save. The button is only available if you have edit permission and have changed some data.
Before replacing an automatic cost with a manual one, review purchases, recipes, components, time records and hourly costs. A manual amount can conceal incomplete master data.