Item Made in Factory & Sent Out to Be Finished

[Former Member]

I am working on Bills of Materials in SAP Business One. Can anyone give an opinion on how to handle a part that we make in our factory and send out to a vendor to be painted in various colors? I need the quantity of unfinished parts to be subtracted from my unpainted inventory count when it leaves the factory and need it to become a new painted part when it returns from the vendor to the factory. One way or another, I need to track how many unpainted parts I have and how many painted parts I have. This seems to stump everyone, including me. Thanks for any help you can give!

[Former Member]

Hi,

My suggestion is to create simple BOM to include unpainted part and process fee as components and finished item is the painted part. When you ship those parts to the factory, create production order and issue the components. When it returns, you can receipt them from production order.

Thanks,

Gordon