Cost price calculation queue

When processing documents in the storekeeping system, overall volumes of outgoing stock (stock deducted from store, or 'stock-out') must be fully covered by overall volumes of incoming stock (stock-in). The outgoings in one document may be covered by incomings recorded in more than one stock-in document.

The cost price of outgoing stock items is determined as the sum of cost prices of those stock items in all the stock-in documents that are used to account for the outgoings.

For example, a production record documents the usage of 1.2 kg of carrots. This was covered by:

The calculated cost price will be: (0.8*70+0.4*65)/1.2=68.33 pence per kilo.

Cost prices are calculated on the basis of documents created in stores within the same store group.

The cost price calculation process can take a long time. The Cost price calculation queue operational report allows you to see the number of documents that are being processed and are queued for processing.