Future Cost Events

There are three basic events that drive recalculation of FUTURE_COST. They are supplier cost changes, deals, and estimated landed cost components. When these events are added or removed from Merchandising, they impact the calculated values on future cost. These transactions are known as primary events.

There are other events that determine if primary events still apply to a given item/supplier/origin country/location combination. They are reclassifications, merchandise hierarchy changes, organization hierarchy changes, cost zone location moves, item/cost zone changes, and supplier hierarchy changes. These are secondary events.

There are also two special events that cause new time lines to be created in FUTURE_COST. They are new item loc (when item/locations are ranged) and new item/supplier/country/location relationships (add and remove). These are initialization events.

The ITEM_LOC.PRIMARY_COST_PACK column plays a special roll in costing. When a primary costing pack is defined for an item, that item's costing values are based on the primary_costing_pack not the item itself. When a primary costing pack is added, changed, or removed, this is a primary pack event.

Table 9-1 Cost Events and Cost Event Types

Cost Event	Cost Event Type
Supplier Cost Change	Primary
Deal	Primary
ELC Component	Primary
Reclassification	Secondary
Merchandise hierarchy	Secondary
Organization hierarchy	Secondary
Cost zone location moves	Secondary
Item/cost zone changes	Secondary
Supplier hierarchy	Secondary
New Item Location	Initialization
Item/supplier/country/location relationships	Initialization
Primary cost pack	Primary Pack
WF Cost Template	N/A
WF Cost Template Relationship	N/A
Deal Pass through	N/A