Freezing GL Costs
After GL costs are established, you can prevent those costs from being recalculated the next time costs are rolled up. For example, you may want to set standard costs or create a reference cost set that does not change over a specific period. Any cost set can be frozen.
Freezing standard costs provides fiscal-year control over those costs. You can freeze approved or verified standard costs at the start of your fiscal year, and then track cost changes in variance accounts through the year. At the close of the fiscal year, copy the current cost set to the standard set.
Freezing costs also improves processing speed during cost roll-up calculations. After item costs are calculated and frozen, all subsequent cost roll-up calculations simply use the frozen cost.
Warning Freezing costs only prevents the system from recalculating costs. It does not prevent manual changes in item cost data maintenance functions, cost set copy functions, or operation cost calculation.
Run Cost Roll-Up Freeze/Unfreeze (13.12.1) to mark item costs for a cost set and site as frozen. You can freeze all items or groups of items. You can also selectively unfreeze items to allow cost updates only for the new or revised items.