Re: Surcharges -- MAPICS-L

Check to make sure the comments print on your invoices.  They do not print
on My invoices, but I'm not native either.


----- Original Message -----
From: "Tom Wood" <TomW@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "MAPICS ERP System Discussion" <mapics-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, March 06, 2003 10:24 AM
Subject: RE: Surcharges


> Thanks everyone.
>
> We thought about doing it that way.  Can anyone see any drawbacks to
> entering the material surcharge as a SPECIAL CHARGE and just type in the
> qty & price in a comments area?  Seems like either way, we need to
> calculate product weights at shipment time or at least before invoicing.
> Hopefully this will be temporary. :0)
>
> Any more feedback appreciated.
>
> Tom
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: McCready, Joan [mailto:Joan.McCready@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Wednesday, March 05, 2003 12:05 PM
> To: 'MAPICS ERP System Discussion'
> Subject: RE: Surcharges
>
> Tom,
>
> We're doing it, but it is a very manual operation. We have metal
> surcharges
> on certain alloys that use raw materials that tend to flucuate. We have
> created separate metal surcharge items (MS-<alloy>, for example) that
> are
> "manufactured" and "inventory" items. They are NOT added to the BOM of
> the
> end item, since our customers want to see the surcharge separate from
> the
> "normal" part sales price. (They are booking these expenses on their P&L
> in
> separate accounts from the sales price of the items they buy.)
> Therefore,
> when we log an order, we have to log each surcharge line item where
> appropriate. Conversely, when we ship the end item, we also have to
> "ship"
> the surcharge line item. Surcharge is based on casting weight, so if we
> ship
> 5 pieces of a 10-piece release, and the castings weight 100 lbs each, we
> have to "ship" 500 lbs of the 1000-lb surcharge release line item.
>
> Very, very messy and manual operation, but the only way we could get the
> information to the customer the way they wanted to see it. MAPICS, of
> course, applies the "surcharge" concept to the entire order, not to
> individual line items, and invoices it with the first items invoiced...
>
> Good luck. It is working for us, but it was a bit of a hassle to get it
> going in the first place.
>
>         -- Joan
>
> Joan McCready, IS Manager      phone:  636-479-4499
> MetalTek International         fax:  636-479-3399
> The Carondelet Division        www.metaltekint.com
> 8600 Commercial Blvd
> Pevely, MO  63070
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tom Wood [mailto:TomW@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Wednesday, March 05, 2003 10:32 AM
> To: mapics-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Surcharges
>
>
> Hello All,
>
>
>
> We have a plastics blow-molding plant that is experiencing some major
> increases in raw material (resin) costs right now.  We would like to
> implement a surcharge in COM based on part weight.  Anyone doing
> something
> like this or have any ideas?
>
>
>
> Thanks,
>
>
>
> Tom Wood
>
> Fort Recovery Industries
>
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