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Our company has one manufacturing site that supplies all other seven] sites using distribution orders. So, our main site (Site1) has a mix of Inventory Part] Part Types of Manufactured and Purchased while the other sites (Site2-Site8) have all Part Type = Purchased Raw. 

We would like the cost structure of our inventory parts to be identical throughout all sites. Currently, Site1 uses Costing Template M-110 which breaks out cost into cost buckets 100, 200, and 221. Site2-Site8 uses costing template P-110 which accumulates all of the cost in bucket 110 (because these parts are “purchased”). Is is possible to make all 8 sites have the same M110] cost structure that break the costs out into the three different buckets? (even though Site2-Site8 does not have product structures or routings in their sites...) 

Furthermore, we update all our part costs periodically. We plan to calculate the cost in Site1 (because this is where the product structures and routings exist) but then would like it copied to Site2-Site8. And not just the cost, but the we would like all the buckets to to be copied so the cost structure look identical in all eight sites. 

Thanks all for your feedback and suggestions.

Hi @dtaranto,

You can make use of multi-site costing rule in the cost basic data. This will help you to get the cost from the demand site to supply site as per the default costing type define when you run cost calculation. If any change happens in the cost of the demand site, then these changes will be reflected in the supply site cost in the next calculation.

Please be mindful the you need to have the following setting for this to work

  • Multi-Site costing rule should be defined for the supply site
  • Multi-site planning should be checked in the supply for purchase part 
  • Cost template should be 150 in supply site

Hope this helps!!

Regards,

Mithun K V

@EqeMithuV I have the same requirement from another customer. I have set it up as you explained, but the receiving site does not get the cost breakdown

 

Receiving Transaction

 

@Sadeepa Gamlath we are having the similar issue with a customer.  Did you ever find a workaround for your issue.  We raised this issue with Partner success and the response was this cost template is working as expected (ie just material cost).  The workaround suggested as to create a ‘duplicate’ part on the demand site that is maintained separately with same cost buckets and transfer the received part to the ‘duplicate’ (count out/in) but this does not seem like a great solution since for this customer solution the part on the supply site is a manufactured part so we would have to create structures, routing to perform the cost calculations for the part on the demand site.  Given the number of intersite transactions that place on this solution this is not workable.  Just wondered if you were able to get to a solution on this one

 

@Vanzoezm We couldn't find a workaround, so we ended up generating a report using the inventory transaction history and the part cost table. However, I observed the following behavior in a standard costing environment: When you create a part in the manufacturing site and perform a cost roll-up, then create the same part in the demand site as a purchase part (using the cost template P-110) without running a cost roll-up for this site, and subsequently move the part using a distribution order, you will notice the cost bucket breakdown in the demand site transaction (ARRTRAN). However, if you later update the cost in the manufacturing site, it does not reflect in the purchase part. Maybe worth to report this to IFS. 

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