Selling a demo job in Epicor

We are an Engineered to Order shop. We attend tradeshows and have working finished goods on display.
Sometimes entire demo units get sold on the spot, and sometimes the goods are brought back to the plants in order to be chopped down into assemblies that are recycled into current orders. We end up scrapping the leftovers for metal scrap.

How should I structure a “tradeshow demo” job in Epicor in such a way that allows me to sell the entire product, or sell it partially and scrap the rest? Should I create a special product group for this purpose? It is an annual event, and I would like to get the costing right on projects like this.

-I might be over-complicating this in my mind. It’s Friday.

First of all, YUK. I hate these types of things too. We will sometimes do prototype things that may or may not be used as a final product, and may or may not have everything included to make it the complete assembly.

If you are going to use the whole thing, a simple job to inventory will make it so you can get the part into inventory and then issue it to a future job. It’s a bit of headache to try to remember that it’s there if you don’t normally pull that part from stock, but if you can remember to set it, you can set a pull quantity on an assembly and it will expect you to issue it from stock.

For cannibalizing parts, I’m trying to figure that out too. We have a situation right now where there is a test job that we will use parts from. I don’t really have any expectations of the costs being correct. I’m lucky in that our real jobs are so large, that a couple of parts being off are inconsequential, but I would like it if we could figure out how to more accurately deconstruct an assembly into parts for use at a later date.

Exactly what I am struggling with… When we build a new project up front I have no idea what the breakdown will be. Frustrating, and fortunately it is only an annual exercise.