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We are relatively new to Business Central and we are a manufacturing to order firm - but most of what we do is assemble items, we don't need the routing of the manufacturing module/premier license. I've been looking at the jobs module and I have a few questions.
For our assemblies (which can be complex with lots of items and sub assemblies) is there a way to tie an assembly order to a job? I don't see anything in the assembly order that would allow me to do this - there aren't any fields I can add to the assembly order that are job related like there are in a purchase order lines. I did see where I can add an assembly BOM to the job planning lines manually like any other item but there isn't a corresponding entry in the assembly order referencing that job planning line.
If we want to gather all relevant inventory costs, do all items have to be added as a job planning line? (I was hoping that I could simply add an assembly and shortcut the adding of potentially hundreds of lines for parts).
Is there a way to generate purchase orders from the job planning lines like there is from the sales order?
I know I don't really know much yet about this module but it appears as if there is a lot of manual editing that needs to happen to make it work the way we are hoping it will.
Thank you for any advice you can provide.
The jobs module is typically used for long term contract accounting, rather than manufacturing or assembly to order. We see it used most in construction or other project driven types of business. Jobs and Assembly are not particularly well linked within Business Central, as it sounds like you've found. It might be that using a Dimension code achieves what you need, if you're looking to link Sales and Costs to a specific 'Job ID', rather than going down the route of using the Jobs module.
You can add an assembled item to a Job Planning line, but without the demand via a Sales Order, I don't believe it'll come up in the various planning worksheets. You also can't create a PO from a Job.
Without knowing your exact business and setup, it's tough to say whether Jobs is a good fit. It would probably be best to talk this through with a partner if you have one. They'll be able to get into the detail of your exact implementation. In brief though, we don't see many implementations where jobs and assembly are used together.
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