Understanding the Cross-Reference Setup for G/L Category Cost Groups

The G/L group cross-reference enables you to retrieve item costs:

You set up the G/L category cost-group cross-reference to enable the system to retrieve item costs from the Item Cost table (F4105). The G/L Category to Cost Group cross-reference is a method to associate inventory items to cost components. These inventory items fall into two types:

• Consumables.

• Additives.

When you assign a consumable or additive to an operation, the G/L category code on the Item Branch record is cross-referenced to a cost group. The system uses the cost group to determine the cost component which it uses to carry the cost.

The system bases the consumable or additive costs on inventory costing method of the item. For example, if the item is set up to use standard cost method, then the system uses standard costs. An example of this is mulch which is assigned a G/L Category of GR04, which is then cross-referenced to the GRAPECG cost group, which contains the GRAPECC cost component.

The system stores G/L category cost group cross-references in the G/L Category Cost Group Cross-Reference (F31B23) table.