Subcontracted components - best way to process?

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Recently we have started outsourcing our cut operation which is the first step in our process and that operation backflushes raw material.

POs have been created that link to the job, but when received the material is not automatically backflushing. Is there a better way to handle this so the material backflushes? Currently it is not our process to issue materials so doing something that is not consistent isn’t ideal.

Additionally we are now storing cut parts into inventory. We send our raw material to the vendor and then we use the cut parts as components. Currently we are creating a job just to backflush the material. Is there another way to do this? When I used SAP many years ago a material like would have a BOM, no routing, procurement type as subcontract and material backflushed at receipt. Is there something like this for Epicor?

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There have been a few posts on the forum about this. Subcontract will not backslash, that would be great.

We have added an operation with no labor times and no cost in front of the subcontract operation to backlash the materials into the job. Call it Prepare SubContract Shipment or something like that.

The other part to your question, Kanban receipts. Transactionally it is a job and creates a job record, but it backlashes everything and reports the labor using the production standards. Not sure that works with subcontract, I would think not.

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