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Posted on by nikki_sixx91

hi all,

I have a business requirement that for spare parts, we would like to keep track of the stock inventory (quantity) in our warehouse location. But when we acquire these spare parts, we would like to treat them as expense items meaning by the time we receive them into our warehouse, all values of these parts will be treated as expenses.

Please help, thanks!

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JAngle 133 on at

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If you handle the inventory change outside of the PO then this can be done. It won’t be a stitched together process. When the warehouse get the goods have them log an item journal, warehouse item journal or inventory receipt.

Ordering wise your vendor will expect to see on the PO a description they recognise. You could add the item and later remove it. Or you could use an assembly BOM and explode it. In the BOM just have a resource type so the charge is straight to a general business and product posting group combo account

above being a workaround. I’d personally look at having a development done or just accept having the inventory handled as normal. Just keep it out of the inventory valuation by using a specific inventory posting group

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Nikki,

You can setup these Spare Parts, as I have with other customers, as an Item. This allows me to track quantity, create PO's, setup Planning parameters. On the Inventory Posting Group and GPPG you can setup the GL Accounts so when Purchased the Items are expensed.

The process is very simple and clean but gives you the visibility you are looking for.

Thanks,

Steve

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nikki_sixx91 15 on at

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hi Josh,

Thanks for your help but sorry that it sounds too complicated though.

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nikki_sixx91 15 on at

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hi Steven,

Brilliant! It sounds like a workable solution. Let me try it out on our test system first.

Thanks!

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Greg Enns 1,106 on at

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We're working on setting this up right now as well. I like this approach, but I think it's worth noting that the inventory reconciliation reports will show these "items" as being in inventory but the GL will not. So using a separate inventory posting group to filter these out is just as important as the GPPG is to make it post to the expense account.

As a sidenote, I found the following forum discussion very helpful in looking at different methods of handling this situation:

www.navug.com/.../viewthread

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