Cost Variations when Packaging.

When packaging product, it is possible you will get an error that the cost of the Product SKU your are packaging is varying by over the threshold (generally 20%). The cost of a a product is based on raw materials used for packaging, as the cost of the ingredients in the tank. If the cost of one of these ingredients has varied a lot, then the cost of that packaging product will vary accordingly. 

Troubleshooting

You can use the following steps to view where you cost variance is coming from.

  1. You can look a Tank WIP status report which shows you everything in the tank exactly and it's value. This will give you an indicator of where the cost is coming from.

  2. If there was a large about of shrink while packaging this can change the cost quite a bit. You can see the transfers for the recipe via the Transfer History screen and search the batch name.

  3. View the recipe (Production -> Recipes).  There you can see the unit costs of all the ingredients used, and to make sure that those make sense.

  4. Next would be to look up raw materials that seem to be contributing to the host (or low) cost of the batch in the Setup->Materials screen. Then look at the cost log for that material, and see if there has been a recent large variation in the cost of that material.


Solutions to correct cost

Currently you are unable to edit items/quantities/costs of ingredients in the tank. 


So if there are incorrect values for ingredients in the tank you will need to package as is, and then manually edit the cost of the product just packaged to what you feel it should be. If there were problems with ingredient quantities in the recipe, these should be corrected at this point, as well as correcting problems with the cost of materials if there were any.


There is a feature on the road map to allow you to edit these values right in the tank allowing mistakes to be corrected.