I’m having a difference of opinion with our materials group. They want to make a part (a nut) non-qty bearing, but it is used in a Sales Kit.
I was able to set the part as non-Qty Bearing, even while it is a component of an active sales kit. I really thought I’d get a warning, but I didn’t.
The part cost is minimal and they’re okay with just expensing the cost upon receipt.
Will anything odd happen when the Sales Kit is shipped?
I assume:
There won’t be the STK-KIT transaction for this part
Its cost won’t be captured (it was already captured by the expense acct upon receipt)
I’ve brought up the point that Purchasing won’t know if the part needs to be purchased as the QOH is no longer tracked. But they seem to think the cost (I.E. “hassle”) of managing the part outweighs the need for someone to keep an eye on it, and manually order it as needed.
interesting! we have 1000s of fasteners that are actually vendor managed inventory, and they’re never accurate, bins always negative, 100s of 1000s of transactions that serve no purpose and clutter up demand management.
I don’t have any wisdom but I’m very interested in the outcome. Are you going to pilot the idea in a test environment?
I just took one of our Sales Kits and set one of the components to non-qty bearing. We have our kits set to backflush on shipment.
@Arul I got no errors when shipping the Sales Kit even though the component was marked as non-qty bearing.
@ckrusen Epicor did create a STK-KIT transaction for the component part, but obviously the running qty was not changed. There were no GL transactions according to the Inventory/WIP report. I haven’t really looked into how sales kit components are transacted against in the GL, but it looks like even the qty-bearing component doesn’t have any transactions, so I’m not sure changing the component to non-qty bearing changed anything.
After my test, I ran the WIP Recon and only see the QB parts from the Sales Kit.
The STK-CUS and STK-KIT probably don’t show up because the part cost is zero. and zero dollar GL trans are skipped by the posting engine (and won’t show in WIP Recon Report)
Or it’s a wash in the same account. That’s what happens here with kit parts. They come out of 1300.whatever and go into 1300.whatever, so there is no recorded GL activity. If, in my case, I change the GL control on the parent or a component, I’ll see activity.