You can manage it using the "Cost" tab in the Catalog>Edit Product
screens.
You can manually enter a record or automatically generate one using
the form at the bottom of the screen.
However, for products that are purchased, the algorithm is very
simple: the purchase price of the "primary" supplier is taken from the
SupplierProduct entity (you can edit that information using the
"Suppliers" tab).
There is also a service that you can submit from Webtools to bulk
create the Cost records (using the above algorithm) for all the
products.
Right now there is no support for the creation of cost information
based on average in last purchases or similar. It would be a nice
enhancement and we could enhance the form at the bottom of the Cost
screen to let the user select the algorithm for cost creation (passing
additional parameters such as: num of months to go back for the
average etc...)
Jacopo
On Oct 2, 2008, at 7:20 AM, ian tabangay wrote:
Hi. I was looking into product costing and is wondering where the
unit cost
specified in the InventoryItem entity is placed in. The only time
the unit
cost was used in the computation was when a product is of a
manufactured
type. What I was looking for is a way to get the average cost of my
products. These products were purchased from a supplier and are sold
as is.
~ ian
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