RE: Outsourced manufacturing
I am trying to setup outsourced manufacturing and went through the available documentation and completed the recommended setups in sandbox. However, I still have the following questions/issues:
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I am not able to get the tab ‘Outsourced Manufacturing’ on the supplier to tie my outsourced location to the supplier. The tab is enabled at the form level.
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In my case, our one vendor would be shipping a part (unpainted body part of the machine) to the another vendor directly, who would be painting the same and would ship it back to us as a painted part. How do we manage this drop ship outsourcing requirement in the system?
Thanks
Hi,
For #2, are these then being built into another outsourced item? If not, this could be setup into an assembly item and each step would have a different SKU
ex. You purchase and inventory item names “Part-Unpainted” from company 1 to be shipped to company 2. You then purchase an assembly item from company 2 called “Part-Painted” which consumes 1 “Part-Unpainted”.
Would love for someone to jump in with a better solution, but I picture this working in a similar fashion to how my company purchases our outsourced products. We have each packaging item and insert which we purchase from sub-suppliers, then our final supplier puts together the Assembly Item, which consumes 1 of each package and insert as well as the final item they create.
