Set up work centers

Set up the places where production happens - a machine, a bench or a team - each with an hourly cost rate.

Manufacturing 6 steps 0:51 video Manufacturing - Manager
Where to find it ManufacturingConfigurationWork Centers

Steps

  1. Open Manufacturing, point at Configuration and choose Work Centers. The list shows each work center with its Cost / Hour and Capacity / Hour.
  2. Click New.
  3. Type the Name and a short Code.
  4. Enter the Cost per Hour (what an hour of work there costs you) and the Capacity per Hour.
  5. Click Save.
  6. The new work center is in the list. Operations in a bill of materials use its hourly rate to cost the work.

Note

The Cost per Hour is used to cost the time spent on each operation, so it shows up in the cost of the finished goods and in the Work Center Load report.

What happens next

See the costs add up: production and cost reports.

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