Itemization

Itemizations offer two different forms of display with joint production. You can switch between the process view and the product view in the report. While the product view shows only the costs of the co-product, the process view provides information about the costs of the co-products, as well as an overview of the total costs of the production process.

The co-products are shown under item category A with negative quantities and values. This negative value represents the costs for the co-product that were calculated using the apportionment structure. By-products and fixed-price co-products that occur as a part of the manufacturing process are identified in the itemization with item category M. The value and quantity for these items, however, are negative, just like for joint production.

Summarization Using Summarization Hierarchies

For orders with items that carry costs and revenues, summarization hierarchies aggregate only the values in the items. Values in the order header are not summarized. Therefore, you need to execute the Preliminary Settlement for Co-Products, Rework function before executing the data collection run.

Order Selection

You have the option of selecting all orders, only orders with items, or only orders without items.

If you want selection to depend on the order status, you can create separate status selection profiles for the header and the items.

Detailed Reports

By using different detailed reports with joint production, you can perform analysis at the level of the manufacturing order or at the level of individual co-products. This enables you to analyze the costs of the entire joint production process or just the costs for an individual co-product.

To view the sales order values at the level of a single co-product, you need to show the Item field in the selection screen for the particular detailed report. After entering an order number in the report selection screen, choose  Settings Order items On/off . Enter the number of the order item to call up the report. The report contains an overview of the costs of the co-products assigned to the order item selected.

Place an asterisk (*) in the Item field or leave it empty to display the cumulative data from the order header and the order items in the report. This can be useful if you want to display the plan credit and plan debit for the entire order (i.e. summarized across all co-products). The Credit displayed in the report corresponds to the credit to the order items resulting from the delivery of the co-product to stock.

Hierarchy Graphic

You can use the Hierarchy Graphic report to check which order item the co-product to be analyzed is assigned to. This report displays, in a hierarchical format, all items belonging to a manufacturing order as well as the name of the co-product. In addition, you can display the planned data, target data, and actual data, as well as planned and actual quantities either for the orders or cumulated for the entire campaign.

You can call up the hierarchy graphic from a detailed report's selection screen if you have already displayed the Item field according to the procedure described above. To branch out in the hierarchy graphic, select the symbol Overview.