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If I don't ship directly to the customer, a dropship order, but rather the vendor does, should item be "Inventory" or "Non Inventory"?

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Posted on by FJR

If I don't carry the items in my inventory(marked as drop shipped), it seems obvious to select the type as Non-Inventory, but for some reason, I was told to mark them as type "Inventory". Why?

Also, in the chart of accounts, my inventory goes down negative, which is to be expected as I don't have inventory for my item, when I post the sales invoice, and once the purchase invoice is posted, it goes back to 0. Which reflects a change in COGS(Items), which is what I need it to do, but that is ONLY WHEN THE item is marked as type "Inventory", when I change the type to "Non-Inventory", there is no change in COGS(Items).

50100 has an Item as type "Inventory"

50300 has an Item as type "Non-Inventory", but I would like it to reflect as COGS - Items as it seems right to be reflected there.

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Elle123 10 on at

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RE: If I don't ship directly to the customer, a dropship order, but rather the vendor does, should item be "Inventory" or "Non Inventory"?

I think it should be inventory. Anyways I hope these forums, posts can guide you better. Please refer them.

Links:

intuit forum

Oracle forum

dropship code

accountingseed forum
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Dallefeld 175 User Group Leader on at

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RE: If I don't ship directly to the customer, a dropship order, but rather the vendor does, should item be "Inventory" or "Non Inventory"?

I agree with everyone here, your item should be inventory. You can enhance functionality but entering a Purchasing Code on the item card for Drop Ship so that this automatically populates on your sales and purchase orders.
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Amit Baru 3,029 on at

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RE: If I don't ship directly to the customer, a dropship order, but rather the vendor does, should item be "Inventory" or "Non Inventory"?

hi,

It should be inventory. Because In drop shipment case. When you create sales order, system automatically create purchase order. And when you receive the Purchase order, then system auto ship the order from the Purchase receipt location. So in drop shipment case Item type must be Inventory.

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Amit Sharma

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tshannon 55 on at

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RE: If I don't ship directly to the customer, a dropship order, but rather the vendor does, should item be "Inventory" or "Non Inventory"?

I believe setting the item as "Inventory" is what allows BC to leverage the interim COGS accounts to accrue the cost at the same time as the revenue upon posting of the sales invoice. We do quite a bit of drop ship, and our drop ship items are all set to Inventory. It's been a couple years since we set it all up, but I'm pretty sure that's the reason.
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JAngle 83 on at

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RE: If I don't ship directly to the customer, a dropship order, but rather the vendor does, should item be "Inventory" or "Non Inventory"?

Held or not it is physical goods making it’s way to a customer. Non-inventory has a true use case in manufacturing. Dropship makes the postings so seamless and above all how you want to reflect the books
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Elle123 10 on at

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RE: If I don't ship directly to the customer, a dropship order, but rather the vendor does, should item be "Inventory" or "Non Inventory"?

Can you please elaborate on it?

As per the above discussion, I feel the item should be marked as non-inventory. But the issue is with COGS.