This article explains how to add labour costs to your Enterprise retailer's cost submission such as setting, finishing, polishing, casting & assembly, as well as custom labour charges you may need to include.
Types of Labour
The Cost Submission contains two distinct types of labour:
- Associated Labour - relevant to specific components contained in the BoM
- Unassociated Labour - general labour charges not related to specific components contained in the BoM
When you first open your Cost Submission it is likely your Labour accordian will show a red error to indicate it requires some data to be entered before you can save it.
Associated Labour
The labour section is directly connected to Stone, Chain, Finding and Finishing sections of your Bill of Materials. In all of these sections of your Cost Submission, you have the opportunity to enter not only material cost but labour cost. The labour section will automatically summate these values and display them in the labour section in order to provide a summary of total piece labour:
These sections will always show, even if your Bill of Materials does not contain relevant labour charges.
If you click on any of these rows in your labour grid you will automatically open the same modal as by clicking on the edit pencil in the Stone, Chain, Finding and Finishing sections of your Bill of Materials.
Unassociated Labour
The Labour section also provides the ability to enter labour charges which do not relate to a specific single component on the Bill of Materials - such as Assembly or Casting:
Casting and Assembly both have dedicated modals as they are more complex.
Casting:
- Number of castings: enter total number of castings in the finished piece, excluding findings and chain
- Metal: non-editable field driven by the main metal in your metal table
- Metal Title: optional field, use only if you wish to index againts your customer's Sourcing team's Labour grid
- Labour Type: non-editable field driven by labour category of Casting
- Location: enter the country of the casting facility if different from your production facility which you will find pre-populated
- Currency: non-editable field driven by the currency of your Cost Submission
- Labour Cost per Qty: enter the labour cost per unit (eg if you need total $10 casting labour and you have 2 castings then enter value of $5 here)
Assembly:
- Primary Category: this is a system driven field, you cannot edit
- Number of pieces: enter the total number of castings, findings and chain in the finished piece which require assembly
- Material: non-editable field driven by the main metal in your metal table
- Metal Title: optional field, use only if you wish to index against your customer's Sourcing team's Labour grid
- Labour Type: non-editable field driven by labour category of Casting
- Location: enter the country of the casting facility if different from your production facility which you will find pre-populated
- Currency: non-editable field driven by the currency of your Cost Submission
- Labour Cost per Qty: enter the labour cost per unit (eg if you need total $10 assembly labour and you have 5 pieces to assemble then enter value of $2 here)
Other labour types which are more simple can be added via the Additional Labour button:
When you click this action you will be able to choose from a list of available additional labour categories:
If you can't see the option you need, you can always request us to add one for you via the Cant See Your Option button.
⚠️ What type of labour requests will we accept or reject?
Atelier provide clean data to our clients at every layer of the supply chain. We achieve this by rigorous protection of our core attribute system There is an internal committee of jewellery experts that meet weekly to triage new attribute requests. In order to qualify for acceptance a request must:
- be representative of a recognised manufacturing process
- be simple and clear for any manufacturer worldwide to recognise
- not exist in our system already with a different name
Examples of a rejected requests:
request received > "please add plating charcoal"
response denied > "we already have matte black rhodium please use this"
request received > "please add labour nick setting"
response denied > "we already have labour setting which covers all setting types, please specify setting method separately and use this"
request received > "please add labour engraving"
response denied > "we already have labour hand engraving and labour laser engraving, please choose from one of the existing options"
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