RE: Brand / Profit Center

["Rob Stagis" <stagis@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Good one...I'm on 4.05.

We maintain a dozen or so item classes.  In our case, sales is
differentiated by item class, as is cost of sales and the A/P expense stuff.
We used to maintain separate customers for customers who we also handled as
consigned locations, if you follow.....

You're talking about Sales and A/R, right?  Sales go to item-class-specific
accounts with the opposing entry to A/R.  THEN, when the invoice is paid,
the check goes against A/R and the bank...Right?  I'm kind of loud-thinking
here.....

The problem is that the bank and A/R won't be split out between the item
classes for a P/L.

Stupid idea - for financial reporting, split up A/R and cash received on a
percent basis based on the product line sales.

Nope - no good ideas from this admittedly non-accounting-driven
person.......sorry.



-----Original Message-----
From: bpcs-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:bpcs-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx]On
Behalf Of Tom Jedrzejewicz @ San Pedro
Sent: Thursday, March 06, 2003 3:16 PM
To: bpcs-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Brand / Profit Center


Folks - we are on BPCS 4.0.03

Currently my company has two brands, and the two brands are treated as
separate lines of business.  They are represented in the GL as separate
profit centers.  In the Item Master the ITEM CLASS field differentiates
the two brands.  We sell both brands to roughly 60% of our customers;
for each of those customers we actually have TWO customer numbers, with
different customer types and profit centers.

We would like to have a single customer number for each entity to which
we sell.  However, we still want to be able to generate a P/L and
Balance Sheet for each brand.  The expense side is straight-forward; it
is already coded manually as the invoices are paid.  Sales, Inventory
and CoGs are also painless.  But the AR and Cash piece is somewhat
troublesome; some invoices will contain both classes, and there is a
bunch of A/R stuff not associated with specific items.

Any thoughts you might have would be appreciated.
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