Re: Calculating BOM product costs

Posted by Jacopo Cappellato on Aug 10, 2006; 8:12am
URL: http://ofbiz.116.s1.nabble.com/Calculating-BOM-product-costs-tp141315p141318.html

Daniel,

sorry, I've missed your second question:

automating the process to create the costs of the raw materials is
something we have considered (but it is not in my short term todo
list)... however it could be a bit more complex that what you describe
here: we should probably consider the ProductAverageCost, the average
from history of purchase orders, the avarage of
SupplierProduct.lastPrice (more than one supplier could sell the same
product) etc...

Jacopo

Daniel Kunkel wrote:

> Hi
>
> The product cost system worked well, however I couldn't get the bom
> simulation to work. Is that a new feature, as I'm running a month old
> svn and didn't see anyplace to specify the  currency?
>
> --
>
> Did you consider adding a mode to grab the component costs directly from
> the product supplier table, as the way it is now I'm manually copying
> the costs across, and it seems like an unnecessary duplication of data?
>
> Thanks
>
> Daniel
>
> On Thu, 2006-08-10 at 07:27 +0200, Jacopo Cappellato wrote:
>> Daniel,
>>
>> do you mean the standard costs?
>> Yes, you can: go to catalog->product (edit product)-> costs
>> There you can set the standard cost for each of the raw materials (the
>> products at the bottom of the bom): select the type of "Estimated
>> Standard Cost", a cost amount and a currency
>> Then go to the costs tab of the finished product (one level above in the
>> bom) and run the form at the bottom of the screen ("calculate costs",
>> always selecting "estimated std costs"): the cost will automatically be
>> computed and appear in the screen.
>> You can see the cost (computed in this way) also in the bom simulation
>> screen (manufacturing application) if you select a currency in the top form.
>>
>> Jacopo
>>
>> Daniel Kunkel wrote:
>>> Hi
>>>
>>> Is there a way to have OFBiz calculate the cost of a manufactured
>>> product from the bom and not a production run?
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>>