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Cost Group Recost Options

Many of the items you enter on your purchase orders may be included in cost

groups that have been determined by the vendor. A cost group is a group of

items on which the vendor has indicated that you will receive a discount

when you purchase a specified quantity. These discounts are called cost

group breaks. To take advantage of these discounts, the cost groups and

their associated breaks must be established for each vendor using the Vendor

Maintenance program in Primary File Administration. Having these

established on your system provides you the opportunity to reflect the cost

group breaks offered in the costs on your purchase orders. Refer to the

Primary File Administration manual for more information about establishing

and maintaining cost groups.

The most effective way to use cost group purchases on your purchase orders

is to enter anticipated purchases using the Enter Anticipated Cost Group

Purchases feature before you begin entering the actual purchase order lines.

This feature is discussed earlier in this section. However, if you do not enter

anticipated purchases before entering the items on your purchase order, or if

you do so in the midst of creating the purchase order, you can still calculate

costs based on cost group purchases using one of two cost group recost

options.

When you select Cost group purchases... from the Functions pull-down

menu on the Purchase Order Lines screen, the Cost Group Purchases menu

opens. From this window, you can access both cost group recost options, as

well as the Enter Anticipated Cost Group Purchases function discussed earlier

in this section.

Recost Based on Cost Group Purchases

The Recost Only Based On Cost Group Purchases program recalculates the

costs of the items on the purchase order to reflect cost breaks associated

with the cost groups in which the items are included. This option recosts all

items previously entered on the purchase order before anticipated purchases

were entered.

Any purchase order lines with a lock status of Locked will not be

recosted. Locking and unlocking an entered cost from recost is

covered in Chapter 2: Purchase Order Entry.

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