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Assigning Charge costs on Assembly Order

Hi all. In Business Central, we perform assembly orders that produce a purchase invoice, which would ideally be assigned as Charge to the posted assembly. This is not possible as costs in BC can only be assigned on purchase, sales or transfer. Currently, we typically assign the costs to the original purchase receipt but it results into incorrect cost calculations on assembled sales.

Before you suggest using resources or something like that, I'll mention that we don't use resources or work centers etc. Also, we don't manufacture. We buy from vendors and sell to customers - performing assembly orders (might even assemble an assembly) in the middle.

One option would be to create a transfer order for the assembled line and then assign costs to the transfer receipt. This actually seems to work ok in cases where a transfer is required. However, we also have cases where the assembled goods are not moved to another location.

So far I've come up with two options:

Make a customization that allows assigning costs on assembled lines. No idea yet how difficult or risky this would be.
Use an artificial back-and-forth transfer order (to a virtual location) and then assign costs on the transfer receipt line. No customization required (although creating the transfer orders could be automated).

Any experience on this subject? Does one or both of these options make sense? Any other options?

The previous thread about this subject was from 2020 so I opened a new one. Thank you.

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