Hi All,

We have the need to create internal orders. We do this when product needs to be made at one of our plants, and then shipped to another plant.

What we do right now is create the order, and when it is ready to ship we print the packing slip with all zeros and hand write in the quantities we are shipping. Then we go into the order and zero out everything to close the order. Then we go into inventory and do a stock transfer from one location to the other.

Is it possible to create an order in OE where shipping the order will create a stock transfer, close the order, but not generate an invoice (or generate a $0 invoice, or an invoice that's coded to internal transfers account in the GL)?

This feature would be useful to us.

Thanks!

Hi,
You're taking the long way home. People do this all of the time with Purchase Orders for Adagio.

You can use a Sundry Vendor setup to record the Due to/from between plants for your internal transfers.

This assumes you are not using an Adagio BOM to do the assembly in the other plant. It sounds like you are just building the product and tracking the finished goods transfer.

You create a PO to yourself (Sundry Vendor with GL Account) which in effect shows as a qty on PO for the item(s) you are making. It creates a PO or traveller requisition to generate the activity, say in your other plant, or could be in your own plant.

Use the traveller document (or copy of) in the other plant as a shipping document. When the production is received at the selling plant, receipt it into inventory (in Purchase Orders for Adagio) at your costs defined in your original work order.

This process then shows all of your internal PO's (Work Orders in progress), and effectively receipts them into your finished goods inventory, at the initiating plant. Not sure how you intend to account for production at the other plant, but it could also be down through their OE to the related plant as a customer.

You will need Purchase Orders for Adagio. If anyone else is using Inventory and Order Entry without or has not considered Purchase Orders for Adagio for just plain efficiency, they are also taking the long way home. If you do distribution, you need Purchase Orders for Adagio.

If you need help with this setup, you should contact your Adagio consultant or us. 800-540-3164.

Best,
Brian

Cam:

Are you using the Orders to track what needs to go into production (I suspect the internal order is just one more production order amongst many real ones).

Though Brian has a great suggestion I'm not sure how it would fit in with your overall processes.

You're right Doug. We need an order in OE for it. We've spent quite a bit of time developing crystal reports for our production staff.

Thanks for the ideas though.

Hi Cam

If you need an order for it, and you want to keep it separate from "real" sales orders, it sounds like a perfect application of SalesCQ. Have you considered using that module for such a purpose?

Steve