I’m looking for best practices regarding and process for subcontractor shipments. The conundrum for us is that we have several jobs with only a subcontract operation. The result is that we want to send part A to the vendor and receive back part B.
I think that the logic would work like this. But I want to know what we are missing or if there is a simpler way of doing it.
- We make a Job 123 to create Part A.
- It has one material Part B
- It has one subcontract Operation 10. The part on that operation is Part C.
- We create a subcontract PO for Operation 10 / Part C
- We issue Part B to Job 123
- This must create a label for Part B that changes it or explains that we are calling it Part C.
- We ship Part C (aka Part B) to the subcontractor.
- We receive back Part C (aka Part A) from the subcontractor. Thus completing Operation 10.
- We receive Part C into stock. Which also completes Job 123.
It does seem like it would be a lot easier if we had an outbound and inbound part on the operation.