Overhead methods included as standard:

Manual and custom overhead methods may be used.

Separate fixed and variable overhead methods may be assigned.

Overhead methods may be established by product class.

A labor grade file maintains individual employee numbers and their rate per hour.

Each labor grade uses a $STANDARD employee which is the average rate for the labor grade and is used to prepare quotes or for projected costs.

An employee may be entered for each labor grade for which they qualify. This allows different rates per hour to be used according to the work an employee is performing.

Each operation step on a Master Route can have a labor grade assigned independently for setup and for cycle time. In this manner, WorkShop can distinguish the cost of setup separately from the cost of production.

Cycle time has a percent field which allows WorkShop to account for an operator running more than one work center at a time.

The Planned Cost process provides a way of calculating the cost of an item manufactured in various quantities across different routes.

Common uses of the Planned Cost process include

The Planned Cost function projects the material, labor and overhead costs of manufacturing an item in a specified quantity using a designated master route.

The Work Order Cost function provides a snapshot of job costs and allows a comparison of those costs to saved/quoted costs.

The Work Order Cost screen displays

• The WIP costs of completed steps.

• The projected costs to finish the job.

• The total costs for the job.

• A breakdown of how the costs are distributed.

• The cost per unit or for the total job.

The current work order costs are automatically calculated each time the screen is displayed.

A Work In Process report permits up to the minute reporting on the value of WIP.

WIP can be broken down by material, labor and overhead and by the type of order:

The detail of the WIP reporting can include showing costs by route step.

The variance reporting can be done on in process or completed work orders.

The variance reporting can be done for material, labor and overhead costs right down to the route steps.

An Average Cost report will calculate the average material, labor and overhead costs for an item over a specified period of time.

As part of the process of finding average costs for an item, parameters may be set that will exempt costs that are below a certain amount or above a certain amount. This allows out of the ordinary costs to be excluded from the average cost calculations.

The ability to find average costs has several important advantages: