In order to maintain the segregation of duties between operations users that need to edit Default Order Settings for multiples, minimum order quantity, and maximum order quantity, and finance users that need to edit the standard order quantity in order to accurately complete item price calculations, there should be an option for the quantity used by default in the item price calculation to come from a different/new field besides the SOQ in Default Order Settings. Maybe the new value could exist in a separate table under the Manage Costs tab, where security could be applied, in order to lock out operations users.

For reference, we recently had a user update the SOQ to match the weight of one case and a new cost was calculated and activated based on the cost of one case. When we ran a full production, the final cost was of course much cheaper, and we unnecessarily observed a huge variance. This idea would be a way to prevent that, as the user who needs to maintain Default Order Settings for operations purposes, would not have been able to affect the costing.