This is a big ask, but many competitors to D365 already have this capability, sometimes from as long as 50 years ago.
In cost roll-up (Calculation) rather than treating ALL lower-level costs as Material, take their entire breakout and store it as several lower-level costs. The existing Material cost field would then only account for materials added at this level. Same separation for Labor, Machine and ALL forms of overhead. The total Material cost would now be the sum of This level and lower-level material cost. As a result, we can immediately see the full material, labor and overhead "content" of a finished goods. The total Labor and/or Machine cost, or Subcontract cost would now be immediately visible.
None of this "has to" change the way costs are posted to the GL.
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Another possibility would be to have Copilot analyze the cost of all levels and present a summarized analysis or estimate.
Category: Cost Management
At a minimum, it would be helpful to have a report that would show the complete break-down (top to bottom) of costs by the individual types (Material, Labor, Overhead) summarized across all levels.For standard cost environments, this is possible by using the "Details of multilevel standard cost" checkbox in the Calculation details. That checkbox is ok when reviewing a single item. However, it would be more helpful to have a report that would show the entire multi-level costed Bill of materials.In addition, for non-Standard cost environments there isn't any way to view or analyze the complete cost of multi-level BOMs since the lower "subassemblies" are then consumed as Material. I realize there will be variations to the subassembly cost depending on previous Production orders. But, since this is the most common request we get from clients that have multi-level BOMs, at least a report that would show an approximation of that cost at all levels would be helpful.
Category: Cost Management
We have the same requirement from several different clients. It will be perfect to have solution in the standard functionality.
Category: Cost Management
We have the same requirement as mentioned by Hugo.
Category: Cost Management
I believe we are talking about the same thing, but just to make sure; the objective of your idea is to split the COGS account into COGS for raw materials, COGS for labor, COGS for machinery, and COGS for overheads. This should create a voucher entry at the time of sales order with this breakdown.
Category: Cost Management