Costing a bulk cost group

When you have set the bulk cost input fields as desired (see Bulk Costing Using the UI), you can cost the 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 select to: Add to existing roll-up, Include in new roll-up (the default), or Do not include in a roll-up (if you cost a large group of unrelated parts that you then want to analyze in smaller cohesive groups using separate roll-ups, such as all plastic parts in a specific project).

   For more information on using Rollups, see Using roll-ups.

4. aP Pro starts costing each component in turn, then shows the results in the Bulk Costing Complete window.

   Note: The time required to cost the group depends on the number and complexity of the components in the group.

   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. See Cost failures during bulk costing.

5. Click OK to dismiss the window. The Bulk Cost and Analysis results appear in the main aP Pro window. See Bulk Costing Data Fields and Bulk costing and analysis results.