Work Centre Maintenance

Use work centres to define the physical or theoretical stages or progress points that jobs pass through, or the cost centres within a job. Defining work centres and using them in transactions enables you to report on, for example, profitability or productivity at a work centre level.

The Job Cost Enquiry form summarises costs at a work centre level. You can drill down on transactions to view the form for a selected transaction.

You can also use work centres to filter output information to the Job Cost Management Reports, enabling you to report on specific work centres or a range of work centres within jobs.

Information

You can further analyse costs within work centres using JC Activity Codes. Each activity code is assigned to a work centre and all cost transactions have an activity code associated with them.

Options Reference

Each option and field on the form is described below. Mandatory options and fields are highlighted in red.

Code

Enter or select a unique code to identify the work centre, up to 20 characters long.

Description

Enter a description to identify the code, up to 50 characters long.

Bill of materials

This section is only applicable if the Manufacturing module is in use.