Direct Cost on PO - newbie question!

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Dynamics Newbie here.

Started using BC 3 weeks ago. I familiarized myself with the PO Process however I have a question re the unit cost in the PO.

From my understanding the unit cost of the PO is unit cost of the past recorded purchase invoice. However I am also of the understanding that if the user populates a purchase price (as per below) the unit cost of the PO will use this price. I am also of the understanding that the below will feed table 7012.

My question is : is there an option for the user to chose whether he wants the amount from table 7012 or the unit cost from the last purchase invoice? I am imagining situation were I have populated table 7012 but for a particular reason I would want next PO to read from the last purchase invoice? IS there a radio button somewhere to enable me to switch the source of the PO unit cost ?

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Martin Dráb 239,647 Most Valuable Professional on at

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Moved from Dynamics 365 general forum to Business Central forum.

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Saurav.Dhyani 14,419 User Group Leader on at

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Hi,

Pricing engine allows you have different Direct unit cost based on condition (Consider an offer like mentioned below).

From January 01 to January 25, if a customer buys 20 KG of an item then the direct unit cost will be 20 instead of 50.

This page allows to create multiple offers for customer and idea of business central pricing engine to provide best price for customer based on all different type of offers available in business central by you.

Hope it helps.

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Saurav Dhyani

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Valentin Castravet 32,702 Super User 2026 Season 1 on at

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No there is no option to do that. If the item has a special price setup and the criteria for that price applies to your document, then the document will use the special price. If it doesn't have it setup, or the criteria doesn't apply, the it will use the last direct cost on the item card.

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YUN ZHU 101,416 Super User 2026 Season 1 on at

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No. The standard does not have this function, but it can be done with a simple customization.

Thanks.

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Jun Wang 8,218 Moderator on at

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this is a good question. the last direct cost on item card serves as a default value for the costing. If user don't specify a value, BC will stick that to the PO. As mentioned by other experts, user could set up other cost options based on conditions such as qty, dates etc, this would be more advanced set up and need to be managed properly.

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All Many thanks for your replies

Seems like most of you are agreeing that in the absence of a set purchase price the PO will feature the last direct cost on item card.

Just for clarity's sake and to make sure that I am understanding things properly.

In the below case the unit cost in the item card is 7.419 but the last purchase is at EUR 10 . It's the EUR 10 that I should be getting in the PO not the 7.419 right? (at least that is what I'm seeing)

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