Below is a list of tips and tricks for the Costing course. Click one of the items below to see information that may be helpful to you as you take the course.
It is extremely important that you set up and work within your own site to maintain data integrity.
If you work within any other site, you will compromise your own exercise data as well as the data of other students. Predictable exercise results require that each student's data be isolated in a unique site. The site you create should be linked to company 10.
If you have not created your own site in the current course database, see the general exercise Site for instructions.
If you are an instructor, additional information is available about the Racing database, which is the database used by all IFS Training Materials.
The Racing database contains different data layers, including the following two layers that form the foundation of the database:
To see more information about the Racing database, including a link to documentation for the RTUBE data layer, see Racing Database in IFS Training Help.
The lesson sequence is described in the course description. To avoid confusion, exercises in each chapter should be done in the right sequence. Otherwise you may end up with a completely different result on each exercise, which can hinder your learning experience.
You must enter the correct basic and required data into the site you have created before performing the main exercises. Be sure to read the the course description so that you understand which exercises must be done first and finish all the basic and required data exercises described in the front of each exercise.
In many cases, to save you valuable time, the basic or required data exercise will have you simply copy pre-defined data from site 1 into your site. This is typically data that you would learn how to enter in a different course so it step-by-step instructions for entering this data is not discussed in this course. (Work centers and production lines are examples of data that you will simply copy into your site.)
Also some basic data is site-independent (for example, customer or supplier). You can use the site-independent data that already exists in the system.
In Manufacturing Standard/Product Structure, or Manufacturing Standard/Product Routing, use Structure Alternative, or Routing Alternative to calculate cost savings of the suggested Kaizen Activity Line Item.