Subcontract Shipment Entry - Can the Job Requirement Be Made Optional?

[dcamlin (David Camlin)]

Unfortunately, this isn’t possible as far as I’ve found. Its pretty limiting considering the PO allows a mixed bag, but the Subcontract Shipment does NOT. A subcontract shipment line MUST be tied to a job.

Here’s a thread I had about this awhile back:

Subcontract PO with PUR-UNK

An odd-ball scenario here… Let’s say I’m sending parts out to a subcontractor for an operation… I’ll use sand-blasting as an easy example. The Subcontract PO can accept parts from multiple jobs, great. So we’re sending them (3) parts to get blasted based on job subcontract ops. We also want to send them a part from one of our own production machines to get blasted/cleaned along with the parts tied to subcontract operations. The PO allows for this. You can add a line for “Other” which is th…