ORACLE DATA SHEET

ORACLE PROCESS
MANUFACTURING – COSTING

KEY FEATURES

• Supports standard, actual and

Oracle® Process Manufacturing (OPM) Costing combines detailed
lot costing cost-tracking features with flexible analytical tools to help process
• Actual costing types include
period moving average,
manufacturers determine their true product costs. OPM Costing
periodic weighted average, supports Standard, Actual and Lot costing types to calculate costs
perpetual weighted average
and last transaction and create reports to analyze data at the most granular level. Using
• Cost all inventory transactions
in Purchasing, Shipping,
Oracle Subledger Application, necessary accounting entries are
Production and Inventory created for all the transactions. OPM Costing is part of Oracle
using multiple cost types
• Transaction analysis reports Process Manufacturing (OPM), an integrated suite of e-business
that cover current and
applications, which addresses specific needs of Process
historical costs
• Supports costing of co- Manufacturers.
products
• Process losses, yield and
scaling used to calculate Increase Profits by Capturing Precise Product Costs
costs
Accurate cost information plays an essential role in helping process manufacturers
• Additional charges incurred in
Purchasing included in cost
evaluate production processes and formulate sound pricing strategies. Obtaining
calculation (Acquisition costs/ reliable costing is often difficult, however, due to factors such as fluctuating,
Landed costs)
market-driven ingredient costs, and the difficulties inherent in allocating general
• Variety of cost inquiries,
including item cost and item
manufacturing costs to specific products.
cost variance summaries, and
material inventory
consumption analyses
• Uses Oracle Subledger
Accounting to create journal
entries and post to Oracle
General Ledger
• Account Derivation Rules post
journal entries to pre-mapped
General Ledger accounts
• Simulate journal entries using
different cost types using
alternate ledger functionality

Figure1: OPM Costing supports multiple Cost Types including Standard, Actual and Lot
Costing

Oracle Process Manufacturing Costing is designed to support multiple costing

methods, including standard and actual costs, as well as lot costing. OPM Costing
provides four possible approaches for obtaining average actual product costs. It also
facilitates comprehensive “what if” analysis, produces variance reports, conducts
margin analysis, and improves your inventory-valuation accuracy.

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Monitor Actual Product Costs Accurately and Flexibly

Effective cost management begins with accurate monitoring of actual production
costs. OPM Costing lets you accumulate all material, resource, and direct burden, or
overhead costs related to the production process. Together, these elements give you
a unique production detail record for every process associated with manufacturing a
product—as well as the cost information for each resource, and the associated
overhead activity for an operation on a given routing.

You can monitor material costs using either the actual vendor invoice price of
received items or the purchase order price at the time of receipt. In addition, by
allocating total acquisition prices to the appropriate purchased items, you can
perform an actual unit cost calculation using any of four methods.

Additionally, for those items subject to price volatility, you may choose to calculate
costs on a lot by lot basis. When using these ingredients to make a product, the
product manufactured will have a different cost, depending on the cost of the
specific lots of ingredients used.

Lot Costing enables companies to track the cost of producing their products by
individual lots. It will track the costs of all the raw material lots used in
manufacturing the products. Lot Costing provides detailed reporting of the costs
that go into the manufacture of the product, individual lot costs of ingredients,
standard or actual costs of ingredients that are not lot costed, resource costs and
burdens are all recorded and calculated.

To calculate actual product unit cost, OPM Costing captures:

• Actual batch costs (from ingredient costs)

• Actual reported batch resource and burden costs

• Actual allocated overhead expenses

• Co-product costs based on designated allocation percentages or based on actual

quantities produced

After summarizing material, resource, and burden costs based on batch or formula
quantities, OPM Costing converts them to a unit cost of the manufactured product

Optimize Margins with Multiple Cost Methods

With OPM Costing, you can accurately assign costs using multiple cost methods. It
helps you easily maintain both perpetual and summary-costed inventories by
applying specific costs to specific inventories on a timely basis. Journal entries are
created through Oracle Subledger Accounting and exported to Oracle General
Ledger.

Improve Inventory Valuation

OPM Costing offers tremendous valuation flexibility. You can cost all inventory
consumption or transactions for a given time period by inventory type and process,
or post them according to pre-mapped inventory account designations. You can also
post manufacturing variances during each period by calculating material, resource,

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KEY BENEFITS and overhead costs against designated standard and actual unit costs.

For posting, all completed and closed production batches during the period are
OPM COSTING PROVIDES costed using your designated method. Similarly, all finished goods shipments are
YOU WITH costed and posted as cost of sales during each period. When the final period cost
• Accurate cost information update is complete, OPM Costing performs and posts period revaluations of all
and provides you with the
affected purchased and manufactured inventory.
necessary tools to analyze
the cost data using
In addition, you can post the impact of actual batch material and resource
several cost types
simultaneously consumption to work-in-process inventory using actual costs. You can also
• Using OPM Costing and reclassify manufacturing period expenses to product inventory for period valuation
Oracle Subledger
and reporting.
Accounting’s flexible
Account Derivation Rules,
you can choose the right Perform Detailed Cost Analyses
accounts for creating the
You can conduct sophisticated analytical inquiries and produce cost transaction
account entries created
for all material and analysis reports for items such as current and historical purchased material costs,
resource transactions applied resource costs, and batch costs.

For better comparison analysis, OPM Costing lets you compare costs of items
RELATED PRODUCTS
calculated using any/all of the cost types to analyze the performance of the various
OPM Costing works closely
with: plants. You can also perform analysis that highlights key cost and manufacturing
• Oracle Inventory indicators designated by local plant management. Key cost indicators can include
• OPM Product
detailed manufacturing variance, production cost, Cost of Goods Sold, and
Development
• OPM Process Execution
productivity reports.
• Oracle Shipping OPM Costing also supports a variety of functionally oriented inquiries, including
• Oracle Purchasing
item cost and item cost variance summaries, production cost and manufacturing
• Oracle General Ledger
efficiency reports, and material inventory consumption analyses.
• Oracle Subledger
Accounting
Benefits
RELATED SERVICES OPM Costing provides you with accurate cost information and provides you with
The following services are
the necessary tools to analyze the cost data using several cost types simultaneously.
available from Oracle Using OPM Costing and Oracle Subledger Accounting’s flexible Account
Support Services: Derivation Rules, you can choose the right accounts for creating the account entries
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