Cost bearer

The cost bearer is the part of your business responsible for the costs incurred when performing work on the asset.

Reporting in AMT is primarily associated with maintenance costs. When work is being performed on the asset, the cost can be categorised by the responsibility for the cost. Not all work performed on the asset is categorised as a maintenance cost.

For example, a warranty repair. There may be a cost associated with the repair, but warranty is responsible for the cost, not the maintenance department.

All costs in AMT need to be categorised by the cost bearer.

Typical cost bearers include:

• CC - Contract or Maintenance (which is the default AMT cost bearer)
• W - Warranty cost.
• P - Policy.
• O - Operational cost.
• E - Customer (external) cost.

Cost bearer is defined per equipment and strategy task, and actual cost transactions. If a strategy task does not have a specific cost bearer assigned to it, the strategy task inherits the cost bearer from the equipment it is linked to.

In some cost and financial reports, AMT only reports on the cost bearer which is flagged in the system as the default. In these cases, the report's launch menu will not have a Cost Bearer filter.

All contract costs, defined as strategy tasks, must have the cost bearer set to contract as it is only these costs that are included in AMT's contract tendering reports.