Miscellaneous Cost Centers
Select menu option StandardsFileMaint./Cost Centers/Miscellaneous to enter and Miscellaneous cost centers and processes. The system will display the "Miscellaneous Cost Centers" screen.
What Is a Miscellaneous Process?
Miscellaneous cost centers and processes will typically be used to:
1. Add helpers for a process as a job is estimated in Estimating Order Entry.
2. Add helpers for a labor transaction in Job Costing or data Collection.
3. To Define Log In and Log/Out codes used in Data Collection.
4. To define administration or maintenance activities.
A Miscellaneous Process may be defined for a specific cost center or it may be defined for a Miscellaneous Cost Center.
Typical examples of miscellaneous processes:
Job Scheduling
The user, for shop scheduling purposes, might want to combine several cost centers into one cost center. In this way the user could avoid tracking each individual piece of equipment and instead track a collection of operations. Several cameras, for example, might be mapped into a miscellaneous cost center identified as Camera Scheduling, and, conveniently, that miscellaneous cost center would not show up in Estimating/Order Entry.
Administrative
The user might want to define an administrative cost center such as "Attend Meetings" and the resulting lost time could be tracked on a report.
Login/Logout Codes
Login and Logout codes may be used that will automatically start or stop a payroll clock as an employee clocks in or clocks out.
Helper Codes
Miscellaneous Helper Codes will allow the user to add helpers in Estimating/Order Entry and Job Costing. As previously discussed, not all cost center types will allow helpers.
Select Add or Modify (adjacent to Cost Centers window) and the system will display the Cost Center setup screen.
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