Costing & post-calculation

Costing – often called pre-calculation – works out before the order what an article will cost and which price follows: material, labour, machine, overheads and margin according to your costing scheme. Post-calculation then compares plan with reality. POM Costing does both: schemes with free formulas and quantity scales for the quote, and a post-calculation that sets the planned times against the hours actually booked in BDE.

From the master data POM already keeps. Material prices, including price scales, sit in the article master and are maintained by purchasing, even without the costing module; expired supplier offer prices do not count. POM Costing calculates cost rates for employees and machines with a visible derivation. Actual times come from POM BDE: post-calculation finds the bookings through the production order number. Releasing a costing freezes times and material costs; corrections become a new version.

Yes. POM Costing spreads project, batch and unit costs across the quantity scales and shows which share falls with quantity and which stays. The reverse calculation answers which price delivers a desired margin and from which quantity a target price is reached. If the target price lies below the pure unit costs, POM says so and names the lower limit instead of inventing a quantity. Scenarios put variants side by side.

For costing, yes: schemes, cost rates, operations with standard times, quantity scales and scenarios all work without BDE. Post-calculation needs booked actual times, which come from POM BDE; without bookings, POM says there is nothing to compare instead of showing zeros. With BDE, POM also suggests standard times – per piece, as the median and only from at least five feedback records. Only a person with the right permission may adopt them.