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Consignment Items without Purchase Order

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Posted on by WBirchett 35

I am trying to set up item tracking and inventory where 95% of our business is consigned goods. Our customers send in items, we decorate them, then ship. Our business is the decoration or customization. What would be the easiest way receive and ship customer owned items without having to issue a $0 PO to receive against? I have read Olof Simren's post about consigned inventory, but it does not go into what i am looking to do.

My thoughts were to create a location to hold the customer owned inventory, have the items as non-inventory goods, add these items and our services to a Sales Order, and just invoice for our services. I would like to do this all without doing a $0 PO for the good that are not ours.

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  • jerome77 Profile Picture
    jerome77 on at

    Hi

    I believe to use item type non inventory and location code won't work here. I am not sure how you want to handle the fact to get inbound entry into your location (maybe positive adjustment if no PO) to get inventory on hand. Maybe setting this item with inventory value zero and test sales part then. Check also if going like this could be a good option related to margin etc etc.

    Hope this will help

    Jerome

  • ChicagoMed Profile Picture
    ChicagoMed 5 on at

    Hi Will, did you ever sort this out? We are about to implement BC and we have a similar issue--where we are trying to track customer laboratory samples through warehouse management but they are not purchases, so POs are inappropriate for us.

  • Anita75 Profile Picture
    Anita75 1,165 on at

    Have tried entering stock as an stock adjustment with .01 cent as cost and using reason codes in the adjustment screen so you can report, and of course separate warehouse location.  

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    WBirchett 35 on at

    I created a Virtual Warehouse where the inventory value was set to $0, then had to do purchase orders for $0. Unfortunately. From the description you may want to look at RMAs to process the incoming products.

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    keoma Profile Picture
    keoma 32,729 on at

    you could use item journals to post the incoming goods. you can set a doc.no., but you will not have a document (PO).

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