Hello,
We deploy this connection quite often at clients. You define the Finished Good Item on your Project's Budget Project Planning Line, which creates demand for the Finished Good when the Project Status is Open.
If you use the Planning Worksheet to generate the Production Order for the Finished Good (assuming a Reordering Policy of either Lot-for-Lot or Order), Business Central will create the link in the background through "Order Tracking" using either a soft (LFL) or hard (Order) reservation.
When the Finished Good is Output from the Production Order, it will move to your Item Ledger Entries (aka Quantity on Hand) with the same link and visible through "Order Tracking" from the Project.
The final step is to consume the Item to your Project which will post as a "Material" cost against the Project.
Things to note:
The labor and component costs of the Finished Good remain on the Production Order.
The Finished Good's total cost is posted on the Project as material cost.
The consumption of the Finished Good to the Project is not automatic.
To utilize "Order Tracking" you need to use the mentioned Reordering Policies OR manually Reserve the Prod. Order Output to the Project.
Outside of "Order Tracking" there is limited visibility to the connection to a Project.
I hope this gives you some good information to start testing the process. Please mark this as a Verified Answer if it helped.
Best Regards,
Ben Baxter
Accent Software Inc
