QAD 2017 Enterprise Edition > User Guides > Costing > Setting Up Product Costing > Defining Product Structures or Formulas > Effective Dates
  
Effective Dates
When components must be added or deleted from a product structure, you can manage this with start and end effective dates. You can specify when an old component will no longer be used in a product and when a new component is added. Product Structure Cost Roll-Up (13.12.13) can be performed as of a specific effective date, and most cost reports can be run by effective date as well.