Product Costing

Materials from the Bill of Materials, machine and labor resources from the routing, fixed and variable overheads, and operations performed by external subcontractors are all included. Co-products, by-products, and scrap are factored in as well, with co-product values offsetting the cost of the main product and planned scrap included in the overall cost structure.

Each cost can be taken from a Price List, entered manually, or calculated automatically for semi-finished and finished items. Last Purchase Price and Last Evaluated Price are available as sources, and a no-roll-up option keeps an item on the Bill of Materials while leaving its cost out of the semi-finished or finished product above it.

Yes. A separate cost record is held for each combination of item, revision, and Cost Category, with its own values for each warehouse, so alternative formulations and products made at different sites are costed independently. Marking a revision and a routing as the costing default settles which version a calculation uses.

A Cost Roll-Up calculates the cost of semi-finished and finished goods by aggregating costs from all levels of the BOM structure, including raw materials, resources, co-products, scrap, and overheads. It can be run for individual items or across a range of items and Cost Categories.

Setup, queue, and stock time do not change with the quantity produced, so charging them to every unit would distort the cost of a large run. CompuTec ProcessForce spreads them across the batch quantity defined on the Bill of Materials instead, and divides by cycle capacity for cycle-based resources.

Yes. Cost Center, Distribution Rule, and SAP Business One Project dimensions are carried through Bills of Materials and Manufacturing Orders for items, and through routings, Manufacturing Orders, and time recording for resources. Production cost can then be reported by department, line, or project rather than by product alone.

CompuTec ProcessForce supports all SAP Business One costing methods: Standard Costing, Moving Average, FIFO, and Batch/Serial Number costing. The costing method is set at item level in SAP Business One, and CompuTec ProcessForce works within whichever method is in use.

Yes. Additional Cost Categories can be defined alongside the standard 000 category and used to model costs under different assumptions, for example a supplier price increase or an alternative formulation. These simulations do not affect live production valuations until values are deliberately transferred via the Cost Roll-Over function.

Yes. Each Manufacturing Order holds both planned and actual cost data, making it possible to see where production costs differed from the standard. When CompuTec PDC is used alongside CompuTec ProcessForce, actual setup and run times recorded on the shop floor feed directly into the Manufacturing Order cost calculation.

The Costed Bill of Materials shows what each level of the product structure contributes to total cost, and the Costed Manufacturing Order breaks down a single production run across planned and actual materials, resources, and overheads. A Costing Variance Report shows where actual costs differed from the standard, and a Production Efficiency Report compares financial performance across production lines, shifts, or facilities. Beyond these, cost data is available to SAP Business One's own reporting tools, so custom reports can be built with SAP Crystal Reports, Excel via a live SAP HANA connection, or Query Manager.