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Where to enter planned labour costs on production orders/BOM

  • August 11, 2023
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Can someone please confirm where we enter our planned labour costs on a BOM?

Our original BOMs were set up by a consultant and it was never explained to us where to enter this information. From my searching I think it is ‘run time’ on the work centres on a BOM. Is this correct?
If it is, we assume a production order adds all work centre run times together to get the planned labour time on a production order?

Best answer by angierowley75

The setup & run time on the production order operation are used to calculate the time.

Depending on how you have your Production Preference set to use Standard or Employee labor rate - controls how the cost is calculated.

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angierowley75
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  • Acumatica Moderator
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  • August 11, 2023

The setup & run time on the production order operation are used to calculate the time.

Depending on how you have your Production Preference set to use Standard or Employee labor rate - controls how the cost is calculated.


Debbie Baldwin
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  • Acumatica Product Manager
  • August 11, 2023

@steph23 - one other thing that sometimes people don’t know - yes - you can see planned cost overall for the Production order on the totals tab, but did you know you can also see planned cost by operation too? If you look at the operation (Production Details) there is also a Totals tab too. This helps when verifying costs and also when trouble shooting variances. 


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  • Jr Varsity III
  • October 18, 2023

Also, make sure that the shift Differential Type, if set to rate, is at least 1.  A client of ours ran into this and although they had a default work center rates, when the cost calculation was done, labor was zero because the Shift Differential was zero.