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Enabling Manufacturing Cost Elements for Job-to-Job Links Only

  • 15 December 2020
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Does anyone know of a way to maintain manufacturing cost elements (i.e. use the functionality enabled when “Enable Mfg Cost Elements” is checked) in one scenario, while using the default job costing method in all other scenarios?

 

Essentially, we need to maintain the split-out cost elements if we manufacture a part to directly fulfill a material line on another job using a direct job-to-job demand link.  We’ll use the cost elements to pass along labor cost from one job to a separate job that isn’t ready to engineer yet.  But otherwise, if we issue a part from inventory, we want the cost of that part to be categorized as material cost only (even if that part has been previously manufactured on a make-to-stock job in the past). 

 

We’ve checked with consultants and even tried using separate project groups so we could tie the product group to separate GL accounts.  As far as we can tell, Mfg Cost Elements are an all-or-nothing commitment (at least at the company level).  If anyone has any creative ideas for how to control when the split-out elements are/are not passed through to other jobs, I’d love to hear your ideas.

 

Thanks!


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