Costing a bulk cost group

When you have set the bulk cost input fields as desired, you are ready to cost the bulk cost group. The time required to cost the group is dependent on the number and complexity of the components in the group.

Cost a bulk cost group

  1. Select the button to cost the group of parts.

  2. If any of the components in the bulk cost group have previously been costed, the Begin Bulk Costing window appear with a message that identifies these components and prompts you to continue.

    • If you select Yes, the official scenarios of the previously costed parts are overwritten.

    • If you do not want to overwrite the previous official scenarios, you can remove the component(s) from the bulk cost group.

    • Alternatively, before bulk costing, you can go to the main aPriori application first and create a new scenario for a part that is a copy of the official scenario. This new scenario retains the previously costed value.

  3. Specify how to group cost results the bulk costing has completed on the Add to Rollup window. You can:

    • Add to existing rollup

    • Include in new rollup

    • Do not include in a rollup

      • By default, all the components in the bulk costing group are included in a new rollup.

      • If you are costing a large group of unrelated parts that you ultimately want to analyze in smaller cohesive groups, select “Do not include in a rollup.” When the parts have completed costing, then you can create rollups based on relevant groupings such as all plastic parts in a specific project, or sheet metal parts costed on a specific date.

      • Select an option and click OK.

      • For more information on using Rollups, see Roll-ups.

  4. aPriori starts costing each component in turn in the main aPriori window. When aPriori has completed costing the bulk cost group, the Bulk Costing Complete window appears.

    • The window notes the total number of components processed and the number that costed successfully. If any components failed to cost or only partially costed, the system identifies those components and provides details about the costing issues for each component. For more information on understanding costing failures during Bulk Costing, see Cost failures during bulk costing.

  5. Click OK to dismiss the window. The Bulk Cost and Analysis results will be displayed in a rollup in the main aPriori window.