We are looking at how we ship out raw materials to subcontractors, who combine the materials to make the final assembly. Sub-contract shipments ship out and receive the same part number. How does epicor expect to see the transactions that would track this material? I’ve seen some other people have problems with this and I don’t see any great solutions. I would think that you could make a pack slip with the related materials.
any insights?
The subcontract status report does not provide you the info?
No, it only has the asm number that the operation is on. Not the JobMtl part numbers that are related to that operation.
@Banderson I don’t show the material description that is being shipped on my Subcontract Shipper but I did add the lot number of the material being shipped so the subcontractor can verify they have the right lot number to work on. We ship multiple lots to them and the subcontractor must keep each lot separate (and return them to us separately). It wouldn’t take much to add a material list to the shipper.
We Issue the parts to the subcontract job. That shows a PUR-MTL transaction. is that what you are looking for in a transaction ?
That just issues it to the job. But there is nothing that takes the WIP material and actually sends it out of the building. The Subcontract shipping pack slip show’s the assembly, not the materials, and the in the DB there is nothing recorded about the materials actually being sent out. I would like to think there would be a way that you can send the related raw materials out, and receive in the finished part.
This is a drawback on subcontracts in Epicor. It basically treats the operation as a subcontract and the SC packing slip is basically that. However, if a SC packing slip has been created you can receive the finished part when it comes through Receipt Entry.
It is just assumed that all materials required for the SC operation have been sent out.
The Sub Contractor Status report will show any jobs that are out and pending.
We have the same issue. We send out two different materials which come back as one. We were able to get one material on the SC packing slip by changing the part on the Operations->Subcontract tab for the SC operation. The other material is just a note on it.
Thanks
Vinay Kamboj
We do quite a few subcontract shipments ourselves and have yet to find anything great. Although not the best solution (and probably already suggested), enter in the bill of materials and quantities in your subcontract operation comments and that way it will show up in the subcontract shipment entry. I built this into several MOMs so that we can just enter in the quantities based on the demands.
Thinking aloud, alternatively, I figured you could potentially add your materials as subcontract subassemblies which would technically allow you to create a line for your pack slips but by the end of the transaction, you would have to do a subcontract receipt to close the line. Maybe it’s suggestion you can build off?