Use this page to manage overrides and uplifts for your forecast product costs. This is done on a product by product basis, and enables you to adjust costs due to changing market conditions, cost of materials, among other reasons. 

The All Products context selector in the upper right enables you to choose which product to display data for on the Standard Cost Forecast chart.

Steps

To add a cost override:

  1. Select Add Cost Override.
  2. Select the product to which you want to add a cost from Parent.
  3. Optionally, enter a Start Date for the cost.
    If you do not enter a start date, you can still submit the cost override. However, you must enter a Start Date in the Standard Cost Overrides grid for the change to apply.
  4. Enter the Standard Cost.
  5. Optionally, select Effective? to replace any existing cost from the start date onwards.
  6. Select Submit.

To delete a cost override:

  1. Select the cost override or overrides to delete in the Standard Cost Overrides grid.
  2. Select Delete Cost Overrides.

To add a new cost uplift:

  1. Select Add Cost Uplift.
  2. Select the product to which you want to add an uplift from Parent.
  3. Optionally, enter a Start Date and End Date.
    If you do not enter a start date or end date, you can still submit the cost uplift. However, you must at least enter an End Date in the Standard Cost Uplifts grid for the change to be applied.
  4. Enter a value for the percentage uplift.
  5. Optionally, select Effective? to replace any existing uplift for the date range.
  6. Select Submit.

To delete a cost uplift:

  1. Select the cost uplift or uplifts to delete in the Standard Cost Uplifts grid.
  2. Select Delete Cost Uplift.

Additional information

You can select or deselect Effective? in the Standard Cost Overrides grid to toggle whether a cost override applies.