When production work for a specific operation is performed by another manufacturer/company, this operation can be defined as sub-contracted in the Structure maintenance, Bill of routing.
Purchase orders must be created for sub-contracted operations before the operations can be closed. The purchase orders contain a description of the operation and text from the sub-contracted operation.
When sub-contracted work has been performed, the purchase order must be marked as received. For detailed information about purchase reception, see Confirm a purchase order reception note.
After the reception of the sub-contracted work the status and quantities of the manufacturing operation are updated. Cost control amount is also updated on the operation.
Prerequisites
It is only possible to create purchase orders automatically for a sub-contracted operation if the purchase order type that is used is set up as follows:
- Order/Return is set to 1 (order will be produced).
- Update stock on hand is set to NO, indicating that the stock on hand balance should not be updated after an order has been entered into the system.
If default values are to be used for the sub-contracted operation, these must be set up in the MFG control file.
Enquiries
- Manufacturing order enquiry