Maintain Core Cost Information

This help topic is applicable to the following TireMaster applications:

TireMaster Point of Sale

TireMaster Plus

TireMaster Corporate

If you stock parts, such as batteries or brake pads, you can maintain core cost information for those items. Core cost amounts are tracked on the Site Prices and Quantity screen in the same manner as last cost amounts. When a part is ordered or received into inventory, the item’s core cost is added to the purchase order or receiving document. You can then leave it alone or change it, depending on the amount the vendor is charging. Once the order is priced, the item’s core cost is updated.

The core charge that a vendor assesses for an item can be stored along with the item’s price and cost information. This allows you to recall the core cost at point of sale, and it gives you the option to include the charge on a customer’s invoice or track it as a vendor credit. For more information, see Record Core Charges. An item’s core cost can be defined on purchase orders and receiving documents, or you can assign it directly to an item.

To assign an item’s core cost on a purchase order or receiving document

1. Start a purchase order or receiving document. For more information, see Create a Purchase Order and Create a Receiving Document.
2. Type the core charge in the Core field for the line item that has a core charge.
Note: The core cost typed in the Core field does not calculate in the total for the order.
3. Receive and price the order.
Note: The core cost will be updated in the item’s Inventory Maintenance screen.

To assign an item’s core cost manually through Inventory Maintenance

1. Look up the item whose core cost you want to assign.
2. On the Inventory Maintenance screen, click the Qty/Pricing tab. The Site Prices and Quantity screen opens.
3. Type the amount of the vendor’s core charge in the Core Cost field.
4. Click OK.
5. Close the open screens.

When you put an item on a purchase order or a receiving document, the amount of the vendor’s core charge is listed in addition to the item’s cost. If the vendor has changed the amount of the core charge since you last purchased the item, type the new amount in the Core field. Once the item is received into inventory and priced, the amount from the receiving will be used to update the item’s core cost.