Hello to all,
Thank you in advance for any great wisdom regarding the question to follow. When changing a cost center and activity type on the Cost Tab of a Work Center, I generally create a new start/end date for the change for at least 1 day or more into the future. This is a requirement of our finance team. I then request production to re-read master data as needed on any existing production orders. However, I discovered that when a re-read is done, the explosion date for the routing would also need to be either the same day as the new work center start date or later. Also, if any new production orders are created and the routing explosion date is not adjusted, the cost center and activity type of the earlier validity period is captured until that period is no longer valid. Here is an example:
Work Center has 2 Validity Periods:
- From 01/01/2015 to 12/01/2015 with Cost Center 108018 and AT 0524
- From 12/02/2015 to 12/31/9999 with Cost Center 107005 and AT 0992
If the routing explosion date for the production order is 12/1, the Cost Center and AT assigned to the order would be 108018/0524.
If the routing explosion date for the production order is 12/2, the Cost Center and AT assigned to the order would be 107005/0992.
If an existing order is re-read and a new routing explosion date is picked, the order will pull info from the Costing Tab within the matching validity period.
Are there any best practices regarding validity dates for Work Centers, Routings, BOMs, Cost Centers, Activity Types? Best practices meaning should the dates for all of these be changed to match each other if one is changed? Are there easier ways to handle re-reads on production orders when a work center is changed?
Thanks again!