Cetec ERP lets you set up labor plans (i.e. labor path, build path, router) while simultaneously detailing the labor cost estimate associated with a labor plan. You can formulate a router, a labor time estimate, and labor cost estimate in one simple process.

Labor plans are maintained per BOM revision. You can modify a BOMs labor plan in one of three different places in Cetec ERP: 1. On the BOM edit screen (Parts » Views/Lists » List » (select part/BOM) » Labor Plan (side-nav, scroll to bottom left); 2. On a BOM Quote // BOM Worksheet; 3. On a work order.

The labor plan is a permanent association with the BOM. If you change a labor plan for a BOM in any of the above three contexts, it will register that change across the other two.

Important Notes / Caveats: Cetec ERP does save records of originally quoted labor costs which pass on to the order as labor cost, and saves originally quoted labor estimates that pass on to the work order (this originally quoted labor estimate is what displays as the actual // estimate field on the work order, so you can track actual labor against what the estimate was at the time of order placement.) An update to a BOMs labor plan, therefore, will not overwrite this originally recorded labor estimate for an order. Note that you do NOT have visibility to the labor plan as it was originally formulated at the time of order placement; you only have visibility to what the total labor estimate was.

Note that if you are quoting a BOM which already has a permanent labor plan / labor estimated associated with it, but you do not provide a labor estimate (or your labor estimate is 0) - Cetec ERP will pull the BOMs existing labor estimate over to your order at the time of conversion from quote to order.