You could create the circuit board assemblies as manufactured parts, create a method that contains a subcontract assembly operation performed by the supplier and the two filters as materials. If you make them non-stock parts, you will purchase them directly to the job. That can make the rest of the process a little easier to manage.
You can set the per unit subcontract cost in Engineering Workbench and account for the cost of the filters as you see fit.
Then, you can create a job, schedule it and generate po suggestions. You'll have a po suggestion to buy the filters to the job and for the subcontract assembly operation. The subcontract operation won't be scheduled until after the filter po is scheduled to be received if you make the filters non-stock (if they are stock parts, you need APS and to mark them as constrained materials to get the same timing).
When you receive the filters, they will go directly to the job. You can then do a receipt from the circuit board supplier against the subcontract po and a job receipt to inventory.
Let me know if you need more detailed info on how this would work.
You can set the per unit subcontract cost in Engineering Workbench and account for the cost of the filters as you see fit.
Then, you can create a job, schedule it and generate po suggestions. You'll have a po suggestion to buy the filters to the job and for the subcontract assembly operation. The subcontract operation won't be scheduled until after the filter po is scheduled to be received if you make the filters non-stock (if they are stock parts, you need APS and to mark them as constrained materials to get the same timing).
When you receive the filters, they will go directly to the job. You can then do a receipt from the circuit board supplier against the subcontract po and a job receipt to inventory.
Let me know if you need more detailed info on how this would work.
--- In vantage@yahoogroups.com, Mark Wagner <mjfw2003@...> wrote:
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> We have circuit board assemblies which we purchase complete, except for two filters we purchase directly and then send to our supplier to be added to the board. We want the Purchased item to act like an assembly so we can issue the two filters as materials, but we want to be able to purchase the assembly to stock so we have it in inventory. I thought I could set it up where the purchased part is a sub-assembly including the two filters, but I have not been able to generate PO suggestions for either the purchased assembly or the filters.
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