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Message started by jwalden on 07/25/03 at 15:50:19

Title: Customer Supplied Parts
Post by jwalden on 07/25/03 at 15:50:19

In our old, non-DBA system, we have a few parts on our bills of materials that are customer supplied. These were handled badly and outside of proper channels.

How do you recommend handling these situations (read: Are not purchased but need to be inventoried, received and issued on WOs) per DBA best practices?

i.e. Are they set up as type R items with zero costs? Do they need to have 'bogus' POs created to create something to be received against? List customers as vendors? etc. Your recommendations would be most helpful!

Title: Re: Customer Supplied Parts
Post by Lynn_Pantic on 07/25/03 at 16:06:50

Yes, the best and most trackable way is to set the customer up as a vendor and have POs with $0 cost to receive the items into stock. This allows MRP to know when they are due in and also provides an audit trail if you are late for a customer delivery and can trace it back to a delinquency on their part in providing necessary components.

Title: Re: Customer Supplied Parts
Post by Tim Keating on 07/28/03 at 11:57:24

We have handled a couple of parts this way in DBA for four or five years and it works very well.