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Business Rules Relating to the Inventory Burden Process

Below is an outline of general business rules that apply to the Inventory Burden process:

  • Manufacturing orders built under an expense inventory abbreviation cannot be relieved to an asset inventory abbreviation.
  • Asset finished goods inventory abbreviations must use separate account/organization combinations for their regular cost elements instead of their WIP cost elements.
  • Expense finished goods inventory abbreviations must use the same account/organization combination for both the regular and WIP cost element account/organization combinations.
  • For asset finished goods inventory abbreviations, only the WIP cost element account/organizations should be part of cost pool base accounts (see the Pool Base subtask of the Manage Cost Pools screen in Costpoint Cost and Revenue Processing). To prevent the costs from being burdened twice, do not burden the regular cost element account/organizations.
  • To prevent the over burdening of costs, do not perform transfers/issues/reliefs from burdened asset material to account/organizations or inventory abbreviations with account/organizations that are part of a cost pool burden base.
  • If the you burden on receipt in Costpoint Inventory and you want to ensure burden is not applied twice, Asset Raw Material and Asset Finished Goods (if material is purchased directly to the finished goods inventory abbreviation) Inventory Abbreviations' Material Account/Organizations should be part of a cost pool base, but any Finished Goods Inventory Abbreviations' WIP Material Cost Account/Organization should not be part of a base. If you burden on issue, the Asset Raw Material and Asset Finished Goods (if material is purchased directly to the finished goods inventory abbreviation) Inventory Abbreviations' Material Account/Organizations should not be part of a cost pool base, but Finished Goods Inventory Abbreviations' WIP Material Cost Account/Organization can be part of a base. Set up the pool base in the Pool Base subtask of the Manage Cost Pools screen in Costpoint Cost and Revenue Processing.
  • GFM material can be burdened in the MO if you burden on issue.
  • Inventory projects that have asset finished goods inventory abbreviations are required to have the following two account/organizations.
    • Contra WIP Acct/Organization: This account/organization will be credited when amounts are relieved from that inventory project's MO.
    • WIP Variance Acct/Organization: This account/organization will be debited or credited to post any differences between amounts charged and amounts relieved to an asset inventory abbreviation MO.
  • If raw material is burdened on receipt, inventory projects with asset raw material inventory abbreviations should have a capitalized burden account/organization.
  • Projects with expense finished goods inventory abbreviations or raw material expense inventory abbreviations (if raw material is burdened on receipt) should have an allocation clearing account/organization.