Patent ID: 7363238

Claim:
A method for integrating cost during a change in an order for a product in a flexible order transaction system wherein production of the order is currently in progress, comprising the steps executed by a computer processor of: receiving a request to change the order for the product, the change resulting in a new order; determining a resource usage and a component usage for at least one of a yield and a scrap generated at each reporting point in a first production process for the order for the product, the first production process including a plurality of reporting points; mapping at least two pairs of reporting points between the first production process for the order and a second production process for the new order, the second production process including a plurality of reporting points; moving, at each mapped pair of reporting points, the resource usage and the component usage from the order to the new order; and transferring, for each unmapped reporting point in the first production process for the order, the resource usage and the component usage as a function of the mapped reporting points.