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The standard report 'Result per Customer based on Production Order' shows the pre-calculation and actual cost amounts and times of all production orders that have been reported financially ready in the current selected fiscal year. It provides a breakdown by material, operations, and outsourcing. The report is grouped by customer.

The standard report 'PC-AC Production Orders' provides a detailed overview of production orders, including a comparison of pre-calculation and actual costs. For each order, data is displayed on items, quantities, material usage, operations, outsourcing, man-hours, and machine-hours. The report shows both pre-calculation and actual costs, including deviations per cost type. This provides insight into actual performance compared to expectations, including PC-AC factors and deviation amounts, sorted by production order and production group.

Internal Invoicing is a functionality that makes it possible to account for hours from one administration on a production order in another administration. This gives you insight into the actual costing of orders (hours actually worked). The administrative processing (invoicing) can be automated. This manual explains the design and operation in more detail.

The standard dashboard 'PC-AC Employee Hours' provides insight into the PC-AC ratio per employee based on the AC hours. The lower the AC relative to the PC, the better the efficiency.

With the standard dashboard 'Unmanned Performance', you gain insight into the extent to which the actual production aligns with the planned man-machine ratio, visible per operation, item, and individual production order. The lower the realized MMR, the more a machine can run unmanned.

Using the Shop Floor functionality, you can let your employees clock hours on all your direct and indirect operations. Essential for a reliable subsequent calculation. In the webinar 'Why Use Shop Floor in Production' we will introduce you to the MKG Shop Floor. You will not only see how to set up in MKG and what you should pay attention to, but also how the smart client works, or the interface on the work floor. This webinar serves as an introduction and shows you the benefits of working with the Shop Floor.

This article describes the administration settings on the 'General' tab. On this tab, you will find the settings for 'Registration default based on', 'Entering hours', 'Processing hours', 'Holidays', and 'Operations'.

With the standard dashboard 'PC-AC hours', it is possible to analyze how the pre- and post-calculation hours of production relate to each other based on different categories. By looking at the number of orders not linked to pre-calculations, it is also possible to check how well hours are recorded.

In the standard dashboard 'PC-AC Overview per Production Order', the preliminary and final calculation values are compared based on the selected pricing system. This provides quick insight into the result of the production order and how it is achieved.

The fourth step in the period closing is determining the work in progress value. Use the 'Order List Financial' to report production orders financially ready that no longer belong in work in progress. After determining the WIP value, make the transaction entry.

After all entries are recorded, they need to be reviewed. Evaluate the trial balance, check the VAT return, and close the VAT period. Once the entries in all journals are definitively processed, close the period. This is the seventh step in the period closure. »

To fully and accurately record the cost price of an order in MKG, the actual costs must be processed. This is the third step in the period closure. After solving the outstanding demand, the hours must be definitively processed and production orders completed.

For setting up the financial administration, the administration settings for certain financial bookings are important or even decisive. This article provides an explanation of cost price booking, manual invoicing, installment invoicing, post-calculation, working without items, outsourcing, and 'Never anonymously from stock'.

Example entry 'Outsourcing' in the 'Actual Costs Outsourcing' journal after the actions 'Approve Invoice' and 'Enter Invoice'. Transaction type 06 WIP Outsourcing.

Example entry 'Material' in the journal 'Actual Costs Material' after the action 'Material issue on PO'. Transaction type 05 WIP Material.

Hour categories determine the financial settlement of registered hours. Depending on the hour category, the job group on the employee and the administration settings, the different surcharge percentages are determined for cost price and subsequent calculation of the operation and the time spent and any overtime position, split into a man and machine part.

The standard dashboard 'PC-AC Analysis (Financially Ready)' displays all production orders that have been marked as financially ready and are historical. Based on this, the pre-calculation and actual costs can be compared.

This article describes the administration settings on the 'Price structure' tab. On this tab you will find the standard settings for the price structure in MKG5, divided into 'Price structure', 'Operations', 'Items' and 'Distribution net price calculation'.