When Estimating, the costing choices are "Average Cost", "Default Cost", and "Billing Amount". Most often, we just want to use the latest pricing (regardless of the vendor it came from). In order to do this currently, I have created a report that finds the cost from the latest AP invoice line, export this to excel, and then re-upload this through 9-6 ("Update Prices") to change the default cost. If the part has never been purchased, it should use Default Cost in place.

It would be far more convenient to have this as a field in the 9-2 parts screen, where it finds the latest cost for that part from AP invoices. I'm sure it would save a lot of time, and it would also prevent estimators from having to constantly upload/update pricing (it would be done automatically).

by: Ryan B. | over a year ago | Estimating