What's New in Manufacturing: Costing (2025 release wave 1)

Overview

The video covers two costing areas in manufacturing. First, a production bill of material or routing can be defined on a stock keeping unit, which helps when a SKU represents a product variant or a location-specific way of producing an item. Standard cost for items produced for that variant or location is then taken from the SKU instead of the item card, using a new function that calculates production standard cost at SKU level.

Second, non-inventory costs can be included in the production cost calculation. The demo shows new columns for rolled up material non-inventory cost and single level material non-inventory cost on the cost shares page and in production order statistics. Both features need to be activated in manufacturing setup.

Key points

• A production bill of material or routing can be defined on the stock keeping unit, for example when the SKU represents a different variant or a location with different production equipment.
• Standard cost per stock keeping unit is activated in manufacturing setup; standard cost for items produced for a specific variant or location is then copied from the SKU.
• A new function calculates production standard cost, so the SKU can have a different cost than the item card.
• In the demo, a released production order has two lines for the same item at different locations; the cost uses the item card or the SKU if available.
• After output posting, item ledger entries show two output transactions with actual costs; value entries split cost into variance, material and capacity. Material cost is identical because both share the same BOM, but for the SKU subcontracting costs replace internal capacity costs.
• Non-inventory costs can be included in the production cost calculation after enabling the capability in manufacturing setup.
• The cost shares page shows new columns for rolled up material non-inventory cost and single level material non-inventory cost; non-inventory cost is also visible on the production order statistics page.

Features

Every feature below: status not stated, demoed.

AL objects mentioned

As heard in the captions. A name that matches one object page by exact type and name links to it; the others stay as named.

• page “stock keeping unit card” at 0:46
• page “manufacturing setup Page” at 2:29
• page “cost shares page” at 2:29
• page “statistics page” at 2:49
• page 5510 “Production Journal” at 1:26
• page “item Ledger entries page” at 1:48

Not found in BC28-30: page “stock keeping unit card”, page “manufacturing setup Page”, page “cost shares page”, page “statistics page”, page “item Ledger entries page”.

Quotes

• 0:05 “you can Define production bill of material or routing on the stock keeping unit this can be useful if a stock keeping unit represents”
• 0:26 “the standard cost for items produced for specific variant or specific location will be carefully copied from the stock keeping unit”
• 0:26 “First activate the standard cost per stock keeping unit in a manufacturing setup”
• 1:06 “the location differs the cost also varies as it utilizes information from either the item card or stock keeping unit if available”
• 1:48 “the material cost is identical for both items since they share the same bill of material however for stock keeping units subcontracting costs replace”
• 2:08 “accurate and explainable costing is a key feature of business Central what can we do better in this release”
• 2:08 “you can also include non-inventory cost into the produ C cost calculation”
• 3:26 “where you can view consumption entries with non-inventory costs as well as the cost of finished items”