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Hello!

Short story... our business sells various protein powders, meal replacement powders online. we have production at 4-5 different vendors that we provide with 3 items for their production. a plastic container, a lid and a label. Basically what I need is to keep track of the quantities of these items at the vendor and that we can see the cost on the finished product, these 3 items included.

So ideally we would like it like this: we purchase 3000 units of chocolate powder at our vendor and automatically 3000 lids, label and containers get drawn from their stock and at the same time we get the cost included somehow. The issue might be that we provide the vendors with the items and we have already paid for them. But we still need the cost reflected in the finsihed product.

I've looked at assembly orders for this but it doesnt seem to be the correct way.

thankful for any help!

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    JAngle Profile Picture
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    Production orders with subcontracting seems like a better fit. This way you can determine the component stock is held outside of the main inventory. Subcontracting would mean a PO is created at a specific stage in the cycle and posting that PO ends a process on the production order.

    If you engage with your Microsoft partner they can demonstrate this to you. Or find a partner that will.

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    Vinita_Kas Profile Picture
    336 on at

    Hi There

    As mentioned by Josh you could probably use

    1. Production with subcontract manufacturing

    docs.microsoft.com/.../production-how-to-subcontract-manufacturing

    2. Check this register  consumption and Output

    docs.microsoft.com/.../production-how-to-register-consumption-and-output

    3 You could also check job costing where you treat each order as a job and you can post both sales and purchases on the same which also tells you the job profitability based on the Balance of amount left.

    We are a Microsoft Gold partner and happy to demo if you need me to

    Regards

    Vinita

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    MahGah Profile Picture
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    Hi

    As Josh said Production Order and sub contractor is the better method. We use it for ourselves as well. Below is the best guideline for this

    www.olofsimren.com/

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