what is the est unit cost

AI generated answer (using internal Slack threads):

The Est. Unit Cost is a snapshot value of the item’s Cost Estimate Type which is taken upon the creation of the Sales Order transaction. The Est. Unit Cost may not be updated in the Sales Order even if there are new Purchase Orders for the item with Cost Estimate Type = Last Purchase Price. If the "cost estimate type" is set to "Average", then any sales order that comes in for that product will take the "average cost" at that exact moment in time for the sales order and will never change. However, it's important to note that the Est Unit Cost is generated when the transaction is created. If the value of this Item for that location was 0.00 when creating, that will be the value now. That is assuming a custom script/workflow isn't editing the value (unlikely but possible). The key is in the name "Estimated" Unit Cost. If you want the "Actual" cost, you need to look at the GL on the Item Fulfillment. In the case of cross-subsidiary fulfillment, the Est Unit Cost might not be populated when the order is fulfilled by another subsidiary. This could be due to the fact that if Allow Cross-Subsidiary Fulfilment is ticked and there's no item within the subsidiary (responsible for fulfilling the order) then Est Unit Cost is 0.00. ****** Disclaimer: This response was generated by an artificial intelligence assistant based on previous conversations from multiple Slack channels, and may contain inaccuracies or mistakes. ******