Sorry if this has been asked before but I am looking for ideas on how to use IIQ to track material cost. This would be a bit different than part cost or labor rate costs. Here is the example in my organization. We have an in-house graphic designer that makes posters and signs as part of his other duties. I was looking to see if there could be an easy way to add the cost of materials such as paper, ink and toner to the ticket that can be used for analytics and tracking later on. The issue we find is we will get requests to make large posters or print many signs and right after everything is printed someone will come with a last minute change or addition requiring everything to be printed again. We are told over and over to cut costs but trying to explain that this behavior of last minute changes is a primary reason costs are so high does not check with the ones asking us to cut costs. I just want to have some hard data to show and if a job has to be printed multiple times we could have that all in the ticket to go back and say to solve the cost issues they have to solve the human behavior. Some paper we can add as a part but when it comes to ink and toner we would have to estimate the amount used and price per unit.
Then create your Item Types:
You can then use these in the Fee Tracker ticket widget:
You can also generate custom views based on the Fee Category!
I think this could be a really good way to accomplish what you’re looking for!
Thank you for this suggestion. I will discuss this further as it this was our original thought process but wanted to see if there was something other than calling it a fee. I have suggested that it be determined the cost of a full color page print outs for each size and we can make a fee for that such as
“11x17 - Full” for a poster that has the whole page or almost the whole page covered in ink
“11x17 - Half” for a poster that has about half or less covered in ink.
Make different parts for each paper sizes we use and what not
May not be the most accurate but it could give us some cost analytics to go back and use every time we are told we spend too much money. LOL
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