The costing of plant usage on a job is achieved through Plant Issue transactions, where a Plant Item is issued onto a Job using one of the Rate Codes set up for that Plant Item (with the Default Rate Code being the default, but able to be changed to an alternative Rate Code).
All these Plant Issue transactions are created in a Plant Issues Batch. The batch is posted to the financials as a General Ledger Journal (see later section Plant General Ledger Coding)
These Plant Issue transactions can be created from 3 places:
- The Plant Issues to Jobs entry screen
- The Timesheet Entry screen
- The use of Plant Assignments (see later section)