Introduction

The Aptean Production Cost Apportionment extension aims to streamline and optimize the cost allocation process in food and beverage production. It provides an alternative way to distribute purchase value and costs related to value-added processes (like manufacturing) within production characterized by sorting or grading tasks. These processes often yield multiple output items from a single input item. With this extension, businesses can set up alternative ways of deciding the value of consumed items among various production output lines.

In addition to offering an alternative value distribution method, this extension simplifies the process of recording consumption in sorting or grading production procedures. Upon closing the production order, the system automatically redistributes consumption entries among all production lines. Due to this, the initial posting of consumption to specific production output lines becomes irrelevant. This streamlined approach to consumption recording eliminates the need for users to track how many consumed items were allocated to each individual production line.

The extension provides setup options for determining the unit of measure to be used in cost apportionment per item or item category code. Additionally, it allows you to assign unique weights to items, thus enabling customized allocation of purchase value and cost to output items. This simplifies the process of accurately determining the costs of goods sold for graded production lot numbers and the sales margins that directly depend on these cost amounts.