Maintain Product Costs

Use this activity to define costs for products used during the drill and blast workflow.

Activity Steps

1. On the DataBlast Application Menu, click Blast Costs Maintenance.

   The Blast Cost Items Maintenance screen displays.

2. Select the Product Costs tab.

   All configured products display in a filterable spreadsheet-style grid. For each product, there is a row for each possible Cost Source (Design Cost, As-Built Cost and Design & As-Built Cost). Each product and cost source row is greyed out until a cost is specified for that product and cost source.

3. To edit a product cost:
   1. Select whether to make the Cost Active.
   2. Select the Cost Basis from Single, Length, Mass and Volume.
   3. Select the Effective Date.

      When you edit the effective date, the previous entry is retained as a historical cost. Historical cost entries are retained so that reports can be generated using the prices that applied at the report date.

   4. Enter the Unit Price.
   5. Select the Cost Units; that is, the unit of measurement of the Unit Price. The cost unit does not need to match the product’s own unit of measure because any required unit conversions are applied automatically when generating a blast costing report.
4. Click Save Changes.