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,
- I am not able to get the tab ‘Outsourced Manufacturing’ on the supplier
=> Have you enabled the OUTSOURCED MANUFACTURING check box in SETUP / COMPANY / FEATURES ?
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Gino
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.
Hi,
So for #2 I agree with Alexeverhart and the fist half of the question but think that the answer may need a bit more elaboration. If you are going to have parts that you own shipped out to a vendor then you should have a location for that vendor in NS. The vendor from whom you are purchasing the unpainted part, that PO should be set up to be received into the other Vendors Location. This way when you send the PO the correct ship to address will show on the PO and when you receive the component you will receive it into the correct location. So there are a few ways to go about the step of the assembly, and ours is a bit different. The method that we use is to purchase not an assembly but a Labor PN. We then receive that into the Vendors location, build the item (the item would have a BOM consuming all relevant parts and the labor PN in order to capture the correct cost) at the Vendors location and then transfer it from their location into the receiving location. It should be mentioned that our method avoids the need for OUTSOURCED MANUFACTURING in the system, as we are leveraging normal manufacturing processes to achieve the same goal. For us all we needed was to turn on multi-location.
