Post-costing / Pre-costing
The Cost Calculation module provides pre-costing to estimate costs before production and post-costing to determine actual costs after completion. It lets you compare estimated with actual values, identify variances and analyze their causes, to assess profitability and optimize processes.
What you can do
Section titled “What you can do”- Price pre-costing — based on the product structure (BOM), consumption norms and routings; automatically includes direct costs (raw materials, labor), indirect and logistics costs. Components can be adjusted manually, with instant recalculation of price and margin. Used in quoting.
- Post-costing — full cost per product, work or order, from actual consumption, direct labor, indirect and logistics costs; data pulled automatically from Production, Purchasing, Inventory, Payroll and Accounting.
- Variance analysis — comparing actual cost with pre-costing and with the selling price (gross and percentage margin), identifying factors (extra consumption, longer times, price changes).
- Price differences — between standard and actual cost, posted automatically to accounting (including class 9).
Typical flow
Section titled “Typical flow”Pre-costing (at quoting, from BOM + routings) → production and actual consumption → post-costing (full cost) → plan vs. actual comparison → margin and variances.
Benefits
Section titled “Benefits”- Fast, accurate cost estimation before launch.
- Exact determination of real costs for each product or order.
- Decision support for pricing and process optimization.
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