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[Steve Latta]

Hi all,

We are a toll chemical manufacturer beginning to experiment with more advanced product costing. We have only been capturing raw material & container costs in our finished goods, but now we want to look capturing more detailed cost information. To that end, we feel like we need to expand our route setups, but all the examples we have found in AX/D365FO documentation seem to be discrete manufacturing based. Our current route set up is very, very basic – only identifying the primary piece of equipment to be used. We don’t have times set up. We don’t have operations set up. We don’t have any route costing set up. We don’t do production scheduling in the system (nor, at this point, do we want to).

I’m hoping some of the process manufacturers, and specifically toll process manufacturers, here might be willing to share their experiences with setting up production routes. Right now, we just kind of staring at our batch instruction sheets and trying to figure out how to translate those into something we can capture direct/indirect costs and overhead against and whether we can do it without being so granular we need a separate route for every product/machine combination we have. 

It’s really hard to build from examples that assume a discrete product moving down an assembly line when you have 27 steps that occur all on the same machine, a couple of hours built in for cool down and a couple of pauses for in-processes QC testing to occur (just as an example).

AX2012R3 CU11 but moving to D365FO.

#AX2012 #ProcessManufacturing

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Steve Latta
Accountant
Ortec, Inc.
Easley SC
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