This is what we have come up with to handle Make To Order parts that we ship from inventory.
Part XYZ is set up as a Make To Order part in Part Maintenance.
When XYZ is added to a Sales Order, the Make Direct flag defaults to "Checked".
Create a Job for XYZ and add a Make to Order demand link for the Sales Order. Set Production Qty to 0 and under Pull From Stock set Our Pull Quantity to the quantity on order. Add a second Make To Stock demand link for the quantity on order and set the warehouse to the shipping warehouse shown in the Sales Order. On the final Operation, check the "Auto Receive" box so that when the Time and Expense is recorded, the quantity produced is automatically received to inventory (No more Job Receipt to Inventory required).
When a Customer Shipment is created for the Sales Order Line, the shipping quantity now defaults from Inventory instead of from the Job.
Brian Garver
Northern Concrete Pipe, Inc.
Thanks,
Brian M. Garver
Northern Concrete Pipe, Inc.
401 Kelton Street
Bay City, MI Â 48706
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On Thu, Oct 2, 2014 at 9:04 AM, 'Bethany Rye' brye@... [vantage] <vantage@yahoogroups.com> wrote:Â<div> <p></p><div><p class="ygrps-yiv-2109438049MsoNormal">If you want to ship from inventory, make sure the “Make Direct†checkbox is unchecked. The “Buy to Order†checkbox is for parts you may sell that you buy already manufactured from a supplier and send them on to your customer (in other words, you are just the middle man).<u></u><u></u></p><p class="ygrps-yiv-2109438049MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="ygrps-yiv-2109438049MsoNormal">You said that you do not keep inventory on parts. Is that only the parts you sell or does this include the raw materials you use to make parts?<u></u><u></u></p><p class="ygrps-yiv-2109438049MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="ygrps-yiv-2109438049MsoNormal">If it is only the parts you sell, you will not want to have your parts as “Make Directâ€. Make Direct does not look at what raw materials you have in inventory to make the part. It gives you PO suggestions to buy material directly for the job, even though you may have the materials already in inventory to make the item.<u></u><u></u></p><p class="ygrps-yiv-2109438049MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="ygrps-yiv-2109438049MsoNormal">Advanced Material Management will give you visibility of parts running through WIP. It is a lot of work to set it up though. If you go that route, you will want to set it up in a test environment and test it out thoroughly. Read up on it. There are quite a few benefits you get from it, but you have to be willing to put the work in to get the results you want.<u></u><u></u></p><p class="ygrps-yiv-2109438049MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="ygrps-yiv-2109438049MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:#404040;">Bethany Rye</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;"><br></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:#404040;">Epicor Business Analyst – PTI Engineered Plastics</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;"><br><br></span><u></u><u></u></p></div><p></p> </div> <div style="color:#fff;min-height:0;"></div>