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Block Economics: Activity Costs, Summary, By Actual Volume (#102)
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Why:
You want to see your own
labor costs plus standard hourly costs for a block for each phase
of operation (that is, for each pay activity).
You want to see both the dollar costs, as well as the costs per volume.
Focus:
This report provides a nice summary of your costs per volume for each phase
of operation. It is NOT intended to reflect all costs associated with work
on a block. Rather, it focuses on costs associated with employee time sheets, as
well as contractor costs. See the "Key Notes" section below for the types
of costs that are omitted from this report.
This report does NOT show actual machine hour detail associated with the
costs.
Note: It is important to understand that this report expresses
costs based on the "standard" equipment hourly rates (that is, the
rates net of any labor cost assumptions), plus your actual hourly labor costs.
Selection Window:
The selection window allows you to filter the report by:
- Date Range: You can either select a pay period, or you can simply enter the start and end date directly into the selection criteria window. The Period selection is merely a short-cut for entering a date range, so you can always edit the start and end dates to be any date you choose. For example, you can pick a period defined as 8/1/2004 to 8/12/2004, and then extend the end date by three days to 8/15/2004. If you leave the end time blank, the program will assume you want the entire day for the end date. In the example below, the start date/time is 8/1/2004 00:00:00 (a blank is assumed to be time 00:00:00) and the end date/time is 8/15/2004 00:00:00. Because the end date time is blank (or 00:00:00), the program assumes you want the whole day of the 15th and makes the end date/time 8/16/2004 00:00:00. In the selection query, the program returns records whose start date/time is greater than OR equal to the start/date time and strictly less than the end date/time.
- Block. You can select any or all of your Blocks. The second
column shows the block description (long name).
- The "Only Print Raw Data" is only to be used if you are
trying to export the data without subtotals (perhaps for use in another
software system).
- The "Fully Loaded Employee Cost" check mark allows you to run the report
using straight labor costs (including whatever overtime was paid in
connection with the block, or to run it using the "loaded employee rates"
you set up for each worker. Checking the box allows you to view labor
costs that are "grossed up" based on your loaded employee rates.
Detailed Description:
The selection criteria determine the date range and blocks that appear in
the report. If you run the report for multiple blocks, you will get one
panel per block.
The report lists out each activity (phase) that was
performed on the block. The first few columns show the various types of
costs (employee hourly costs, own equipment costs, contractor costs, etc).
There are also columns for the total volume and weight, as well as the cost per
volume.
The report has the following columns:
- Activity: The pay activities used on time slips, load slips, or
production slips for this block. (Note that the very first column of
the report (which contains the block name) displays the activity group to
which the various distinct activities belong.)
- Employee Payroll Cost: Includes hourly payroll costs for own
employees based on the hours reported on the employee time slips. If
the "Use Fully Loaded Costs" checkmark was checked when the report was run,
this column will show the hourly costs based on the employee loaded rates,
rather than the base pay rates.
This column will also contain any payment based on the Tree Counts entered
on the load ticket.
- Own Equip Costs: Costs associated with the productive machine hours
on the block, where the costs are calculated as productive machine hours x
standard hourly equipment cost.
- Own Total Hourly Cost: Sum of Employee Payroll Cost + Own Equip
Costs.
- Employee Activity Cost: Costs associated with production slips
for employees. If the "Use Fully Loaded Costs" checkmark was checked
when the report was run, this column will show the production slip costs
based on the employee loaded rates, rather than the base pay rates.
- Employee Load Cost: Costs associated with load-based payments to
employees (e.g., costs for employee drivers or operators paid in connection
with each load ticket). If the "Use Fully Loaded Costs" checkmark was
checked when the report was run, this column will show the costs grossed up
by the "load factor" from Basic Setup.
- Contractor Cost: Costs associated with any type of payments to
contractors (e.g., hourly non-employee workers, hourly rental equipment
owners, contractors paid by production slips, contractors receiving
load-ticket-based payments, tree count payment).
- Total Cost: Sum of prior four columns.
- Total Volume: Sum of the volume field for all load tickets.
The unit of measure for this field (e.g., m3, tons) is based on the "Volume
Measure" selected in the Block Setup Wizard.
- Total Weight: Sume of the "net" field for all load tickets.
The unit of measure for this field (e.g., kgs, tons) is based on the "Unit
of Measure for Deliveries" selected in the Block Setup Wizard.
- Cost/Volume: Ratio of Total Cost / Total Volume columns.
Key Notes:
- This report will show equipment costs only for those activities whose pay
activity type (under Setup | Pay Activities) has the Production flag set to
True. (Non-productive hours are not costed explicitly because the
equipment hourly costs build in a certain amount of assumed down time.)
- Keep in mind that this report EXCLUDES: 1) miscellaneous expenses that
are assigned to the block; 2) production slip costs for employees; 3) load-based
payment made to employees (e.g., for trucking). See Report #131 (Block,
Profit by Activity) for a comprehensive display of costs associated with the block.
- You must run the calculators before you run this report.
- Costs for Activities (other than "Trucking") whose "Is Pay Like Trucking"
flag is set to True will appear in the top portion of the report, on a separate
row next to the Trucking costs.
- This report makes NO distinction between Header and Detail records
(C_Part_13) for piece-based systems.
Report:
Example:
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