Calculation of Cost Amount Physical

Question

How does AX calculate the Cost Amount Physical on inventory transactions (Inventrans table)?

When posting packing slip in purchase order, transaction records are created in the Inventrans table, this table has a field (CostAmountPhysical)

How does AX calculate the value of this field?

Sometimes this value is different to the net amount calculated in each item of the purchase order?

Answer 1

The CostAmountPhysical field is calculated in the InventMovement.updateLedgerPhysical method.

There is no easy explanation of how and why it is calculated. Go and have look in the code.

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