How You Manage Work Order Costs

Oracle Maintenance enables you to record, transfer, distribute, and account for the total cost of each maintenance work order in Oracle Cost Accounting. The cost includes the resources and materials, including transacted operation items and received purchased items, used to complete each operation of a work order. To post these costs, and view work order cost history, there's a series of scheduled processes that must be set up and run periodically.

Scheduled Processes for Costing

This table lists the processes to be run in order to transfer, distribute, and account for maintenance work order costs. These processes must be run in the same sequence. They can be either scheduled or manually run.

Process	Run By	Navigation
Transfer Transactions from Maintenance to Costing	Manufacturing Supervisor	Tasks panel of Maintenance Management > Transfer Transactions from Maintenance to Costing
Transfer Transactions from Inventory to Costing	Cost Accountant	Scheduled Processes work area > Schedule New Process > Transfer Transactions from Inventory to Costing
Create Cost Accounting Distributions	Cost Accountant	Cost Accounting Work area > Create Cost Accounting Distributions
Create Accounting to create Accounting in SLA	Cost Accountant	Cost Accounting Work area > Create Accounting

These processes consider maintenance work order in any status other than the Unreleased status. This means that the work order is in any of these statuses.

• Released

• On Hold

• Canceled

• Completed

• Closed

When these processes complete, you can review the material and resource costs incurred for a maintenance work order on the Maintenance Work Order Costs page. You can review the cost details and their distributions, separately.

• Details: View the summary of cost details including the total cost, material costs, and the resource costs. You can further drill down and view detailed information about the material and resource costs incurred for each operation and work center in that work order.

• Distributions: View the summary of costs distribution. Distributions provide accounting information for all the transactions reported against the maintenance work order that's being analyzed. The summary page shows the processing status of the transactions like Not Processed, Partially Costed, and so on.