Re: V6002 - MM - Mar Cum - CST600 question

god help you!

it took us a while to track this down but the answer is yes!
when you perform a cst600 process (load standards from routings) on a single 
part number, the cst600 program will load the routing standards for that single 
part number. but it then calls cst500 to do a cost roll up based upon the bill 
of material. the cost roll up also specifies the single part number that was 
used by cst600. but cst500 has some logic in it to explode that part number 
down to its component parts and then it implodes these component parts to find 
all of their parents. it then ends up recosting all of the components and 
parents that are related to the single part number that was entered. the 
result, you tell it a single part number and cst500 can end up recosting 
hundreds of related items. and when this recosting is being performed it uses 
the current bill, routing, lot size, etc. if you are like us we set frozen 
costs in cost set 3 once per year, but we maintain bills, routings, lot sizes 
daily throughout the year. thus if cst500 recosts a part, it is entirely 
possible that it will generate a cost that is different than the frozen cost. 
look at the cst500 output report. it will show you all of the parts that were 
recosted each time that cst500 is run. (don't ask me to try to explain the 
sequence of the item numbers on the cst500 report!).  go into the cst500 screen 
and read the help text (probably 5 times) it tries to explain how cst500 
identifies all of the related parts that it will recost when you give it a 
single part number to recost.

by the way we are on 6.04 but i strongly suspect that what i wrote is the same 
across all bpcs releases.

chick doe
barton instrument systems.

>>> Mrogers@miwheel.com 04/06 7:00 AM >>>
What would cause our frozen standard cost records to change?

When new items are rolled in CST600, are other records affected?

Thanks.

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