Tolling Costs

Tolling cost are fixed costs per unit that are added to the processing overhead of an intermediate product.  These costs will be apparent within formulas and batches.

Formulas

Two new fields will be added to FormulaMaster:

TollingUnitCost: Double floating point cost

TollingCostUnit: System unit of measure.

These fields will be available in the File-Configure portion of Formulation Maintenance.  They will include a “Tied to” checkbox, that allows them to be “de-coupled” from the tolling function, if desired for a given installation.

Once configured, each formula can (optionally) be assigned a “Tolling unit cost”.  This will consist of a cost and a valid unit of measure.

When the formula’s intermediate record is created, the tolling unit cost will be added to the formula’s projected raw material unit cost to create the intermediate’s final unit cost.

For example, if a formula has a raw material cost of $15.50 per gallon, and the tolling cost is $6/gallon, the intermediate’s cost will be $21.50/gallon.

Batches

On the batch output tab, the tolling fee will appear as a unit cost line, adjustable by the end user.  The total tolling cost will default to the total projected output times tolling unit cost, but the quantity can be adjusted manually prior to posting the batch.

A new table will be created: TollingJournal.  This journal will hold records of tolling fees added to batch costs during posting.  The tolling fee will be added to the cost of raw materials, BOMs, and packaging in the batch.  These records comprise the total batch cost.

The tolling journal will include a unique transaction number; batch code; a copy of the formula’s tolling unit cost and cost unit; the batch’s total tolling amount; and the total tolling cost.

The total tolling cost will be apportioned uniformly to all batch outputs.  This will include outputs where the output’s unit cost has been manually assigned.