Use the Create cost-plus specification process to transfer the actual costing data to the sales line based on the settings specific to the cost-plus invoicing type.
During the execution of the process, the actual costing data of the production orders linked to the sales line are created. This is true for production orders on all calculation levels (i.e. both for finished products and semi-finished products).
When starting the process, you can specify a date selection. For example, on Tuesday, you could process the entries through to the Friday of the week before. If you are working with partial invoices, you can already process the posted lines up to a particular date.
In addition, you can choose to have the parts on a sales line processed and priced based on the sales unit specified on the Basic data form (Sales tab, Unit for creating cost-plus specification field).
Note: When a production order is linked to multiple sales lines, all actual costing data will be linked to the sales line from which the process is started. If the process is started from the sales order, the actual costing data will be linked to the first sales line of the order linked to the relevant production order.
Cost-plus specification and flexible search paths
When you are using the cost-plus invoicing functionality, the prices of the different cost elements can be determined automatically when specification lines are created. For this purpose, you can use the following flexible search paths (the relevant application code is provided between brackets):
The cost-plus invoicing type chosen on the sales line will determine which of these flexible search paths will be used. The part prices will be retrieved from the price lists in the usual manner based on the unit identification 'Unit'.
Note: In search path 1: 'Commercial labor hour rates' allows you to make prices dependent on the time worked. If required, an hour posting will automatically be split up into components if the components have different rates based on the search path.
The Currency and Date fields are filled with the price date and the price currency set on the sales line.
Also see Cost-plus invoicing.