DOP Costs—Key Exercises

Basic Data Setup

Overview of Make To Order Data

Purpose: The purpose of this exercise is to simplify the process of setting up data correctly in order to complete the exercises below. It includes setting up your own site and copying specified data to that site. Before continuing with the exercises on this page, complete the lesson linked below. You need to do this exercise only once to support all Make to Order exercises in the current database.

Overview of Make To Order Data lesson

DOP Costing—Main Exercises

Calculating DOP Standard Costs

Purpose: The purpose of this exercise is to view the DOP standard cost functionality.

Windows:
Part Cost
CalculateDOP Costs
DOP Header/Costing
Background Jobs

  1. Make sure that you have valid standard costs (Cost Set 1) for the parts in your DOP structure. This can be viewed in the Part Cost window.
  2. Create a DOP header for part 22-110 for a quantity of 2 with a due date approximately one week in the future. Create the DOP structure from defaults.
  3. Calculate standard costs for your DOP structure by entering appropriate values in the Calculate DOP Cost dialog box. You can get to this window from the Navigator.
  4. Enter a particular DOP ID in the DOP ID field.
  5. Select the Standard check box under DOP Cost Type.
  6. Click OK.

Note: The DOP cost calculation is performed as a background job.

  1. Check the Background Jobs window to see that your job has finished successfully.
  2. Return to the DOP Header window and re-query for your DOP ID.
  3. Check the resulting costs for the DOP header and the DOP orders in the respective Costing tabs. You can see the standard cost for the part and how the cost is built up in the Total Cost field of the Part Cost window. This value is only valid if you have done the proper cost rolls and moved the costs to cost set 1.
  4. You can also run the cost calculation for this DOP ID using the right-click on the top order, then click Calculate Cost for This DOP ID in the DOP Header/Costing tab.

Note: For a standard cost, the standard cost information (level cost, cumulative cost) in the standard BOM is applied as is, and the roll up process is not carried out.

Calculating DOP Estimated Costs

Purpose: The purpose of this exercise is to view the DOP estimated cost functionality.

Windows:
Part Cost
 Calculate DOP Costs
DOP Header/Costing
DOP Order/Costing

  1. Make sure that you have valid standard costs (Cost Set 1) for the parts in your DOP structure. This can be viewed in the Part Cost window. Query for your top level part, 22-110, for your site.
  2. Calculate estimated costs for your DOP structure by entering appropriate values in the Calculate DOP Cost dialog box. The DOP structure should be unreleased.

Note: The DOP cost calculation is performed as a background job.

  1. Check the resulting costs for the DOP header and the DOP orders in the respective Costing tabs.
  2. Release the DOP structure and recalculate the DOP estimated costs.
  3. Check the resulting costs again for the DOP header and the DOP orders in the respective Costing tabs.
  4. You can also run the cost calculation for this DOP ID using the right-click on the top order, then click Calculate Cost for This DOP ID in the DOP Header/Costing tab.

Note: An estimated cost is a cost that is rolled up using the standard level cost of a part corresponding to each DOP order, based on the DOP structure. However, the total of the standard cost of the corresponding parts is used for the bottom level MRP ordered parts, (DOP orders that are not to create pegged orders).

Note: An actual cost is the total of the actual cost reported to a pegged order of each DOP order. For purchased parts, the actual purchase costs are applied. In addition, when netting is performed and excess inventory or excess order is used, the standard cost of the parts will be applied.

Calculating DOP Actual Costs

Purpose: The purpose of this exercise is to view the DOP actual cost functionality.

Windows:
DOP Header

  1. Make sure that you have valid standard costs (Cost Set 1) for the parts in your DOP structure. This can be viewed in the Part Cost window.
  2. Calculate estimated costs for your DOP structure by entering appropriate values in the Calculate DOP Cost dialog box. The DOP structure should be unreleased. What is the cost? ________
  3. Net some parts in the structure and recalculate the DOP actual cost.
  4. Release the DOP structure.
  5. Now we are going to report some time on pegged shop orders' operations.
  6. Click the Structure Multilevel tab.
  7. Select the DOP orders for part numbers 22-110, 22-210, and 22-240. These are the DOP orders which have shop orders created for them. Right-click, then click DOP Order Detail to open the DOP Order window.
  8. For each of the DOP orders in the DOP Order window, click the Supply tab to find the pegged shop order records.
  9. Select the record in the table area. Right-click, then click Go to Supply to open the Shop Order window.
  10. Report time on some of the operations and save your changes.
  11. Recalculate the actual DOP cost and compare it with the actual cost of the shop order.
  12. You can also run the cost calculation for this DOP ID using the right-click on the top order, then click Calculate Cost for This DOP ID in the DOP Header/Costing tab.

Note: If there is a difference, this may be due to the costs associated with the parts that you netted in step 4.

Running Cost Calculations as a Scheduled Job

Purpose: The purpose of this exercise is to show how to set up cost calculations to run as a scheduled job. You would do this so that cost calculations are run nightly, for example.

Windows:
Part Cost
 Calculate DOP Costs
Runtime Monitoring/Server Processes

  1. Make sure that you have valid standard costs (Cost Set 1) for the parts in your DOP structure. This can be viewed in the Part Cost window.
  2. Open New Database Task Schedule and select Calculate DOP Costs as the database task.
  3. Enter the desired parameters for the scheduled job. You can select All Sites, a particular site using List of Values to enter the value in the Site field, or enter a particular DOP ID in the DOP ID field and select one or more check boxes under DOP Cost Type.
  4. Enter the Schedule information as required.
  5. Select the Activate check box in the right hand side of the window to activate the task.
  6. Save.
  7. You can also delete this record to stop the process from running.

  8. If you clear the Activate check box for this task, it will not execute any more, but it can be manually activated.