Shipment of non-stocked items (or is it Production?)

[Reinier]

[red1]

[Reinier]

[lofx]

[Reinier]

[ReddoC]

Ok i have a similar case. I tried to use the drop shipment on the SO-Header.

and the result was that no shipment was generated and products don't move from my warehouse.

But how to send to the vendor the information to ship all the product in my SO ?

[Reinier]

Hello ReddoC,

Sorry to hear that this particular 'feature' is troubleling you too.

As it stands, i've changed the non-stocked item to stocked as suggested by lofx and of course, that works allright. Unfortunately, there's a kickback. When my SO comprises of items with replenishmentmethods Minimum stock and items with replenishmentmethods of 'manual', both will be created when creating PO from SO. This means that every PO needs to be modified, eg throwing away the items that really should be ordered from replishment-report. Can't have it all i guess but i'm starting to wonder in what cases the process 'create PO from SO' is really helpful. But, i'll certainly ask this question during the Bonn-training.

Regards,

Reinier

[red1]

Reinier,
U can use the BOM Structure for your "produced" goods. U first define your finished product as a Job or particular design i.e. A1. Then u state its BOM childs or raw materials of A1 - Window Curtain (metre square etc), A2 - Labour (for sewing), A3 other direct costs i.e. electricity.

A2, A3 are products u created with its unit prices. A1 is defined without unit price so that it derives from its childs as a total = unit X BOMQty. i.e. Each A1 is made up of A2 + A3.

During SO u can generate a Production (u have to create it manually, not like SO > PO) Then u have to do Internal Use to consume the inventory daily for A2 and A3. The accounting consequence shall be posted to Charge (Inventory Expense) That is contraed when u post Production process as it CR Product Asset (raws) and DR Product Asset (Finished Goods).

However this is not correct as u would have CR your raw A2 and A3 doubly. Nevertheless i m working on a production system that has solved such a problem. That is we do not define A2 and A3 as A1's immediate childs. Rather we define a process(!!). i.e. B1 which is "Make Curtain" and its childs are A2 and A3 (!).

I am finishing a production shopfloor system which takes the B1 (process) and display them as Queue for the shopfloor. The Queue window allows start and stop of the Process, thus giving alot of benefit to the shopfloor controllers as to what jobs are in queue (outstanding), in-progress (started), finished (stopped).

This shopfloor extension to compiere requires different plugins and i would hurry up its documentation if there is interested sponsor (to buy some of my programmers time to take over so i can sit and write undisturbed).

Meanwhile u can continue to contribute ideas for me to improve and share here.

regards
red1