Price management

t aAnother thing often asked for in Ax when confronting the larger clients is a price buildup / decomposition possibility.

What is meant by this, well really only the option to either by building from the purchase price and adding, f'ex. handling charges, internal stock fee estimations, margins etc etc getting a sales price or going in the other direction and using the sales price and decomposing the sales price to arrive at a purchase price.

It should be possible to associate categories to each element in the composition as well as decomposition of the price and to store this category mapped for each item and then to apply this as a posting mask or value mask to see using reporting, how much of stocking fee we have overall sold for in a period f'ex.

The latter is what to a certain extent can be done in the Cost accounting module, however as the cost accounting module is uni dimensional, we loose too much information when feeding information in to be able to decompose the costs properly.

More about uni dimensional cost accounting later :-), I need to have subjects for discussion ;-), in short when the financial information is transferred to the cost accounting you specify one dimension to use and all others are removed. This has as a consequence that it is not possible to allocate by a combination of f'ex product and customer hierarchies using the same numbers.

I have heard that for version 4.5 due in 2009 there are some plans perhaps to create something along the lines of the price management as well as a plan to change the cost accounting module.

I and several others do wish this could be done sooner :-).

/Sven