Hope this is the right forum spot!
I was looking at the Outside Process feature in xTuple and I would like to share an enhancement we would like to see.
My manufacturing experience tells me there is two type of outside processes.
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You put many parts in the basket and send it to vendor for Chroming as an example. Price is per bound (in this example) and it includes many WO.
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Each PO is specific to a WO material.
So option 1 work fine in xTuple. You can create PO or POs to track and process vouchers. You could also attach an item costing to increase the WO WIP. A+
Option 2 does not work with the actual approach, because each PO Line related to a specific WO have its own price/fee. In this situation upon PO Receipt the WO cost needs to be increase by the PO price + other fees and GL transaction should be, debit WIP @ credit PO accrual.
Actually, the only way option 2 can work now, it to have CHROMING inventoried with average cost and make sure there is zero inventory when performing the PO Receipt and the Materail Issue rigth away!
Please Comment.
Thanks,
Robert Charbonneau