Updating average costs for items

This recipe demonstrates how you can update the average cost by using an interactive application and batch application Average Cost Update (R41811).

Getting ready

Before you run the Average Cost Update program, you should be familiar with the cost level of the items that you want to update. You should consider that:

  • For all items with a cost level of 1, it is required to specify the branch/plant and locations
  • For all items with a cost level of 2, it is required to specify the locations only
  • If you select to run the update for items from all three cost levels, you should select by item number only
  • You need to set up UDC 40/AV to specify the programs that update the Average Cost Work File (F41051)

How to do it...

  1. Upload the item cost information into the F41051 table.
  2. Select Inventory Price & Cost Updates (G4123) | Update Average Cost batch application.
  3. Set the data selection, if you want to update the cost for a specific item, and then click Submit.
How to do it...

How it works...

When you run the Average Cost Update program, the system accesses current cost information from the F41051 Average Cost Work file table. It then calculates the average cost for each item and updates the F4105 table. Each time a transaction affects the current cost of an item, the system updates the Average Cost Work File, and then deletes the transaction work file. To specify that the system updates Average Costs interactively, use the System Constants program. To update average costs in batch mode, use the Average Cost Update program. You specify the items, branches/plants, locations, and lots for which to update average costs.

There’s more...

You can update item costs through an interactive process. Set up the Update Average Cost Online option in the branch plant system constants. The system then calculates a new average cost for an item immediately after any transaction occurs that affects the average cost of the item.

There’s more...

See also

  • Setting up branch/plant constants in Chapter 1,Inventory Management
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