Process External Production

Once the Production Order has been created, you can use the Subcontracting Prod. Order page to complete the majority of the steps of the external production process. Depending on the business process, purchase order posting is handled separately.

Process Subcontractor Worksheets

In the Subcontracting Assembly page, Subcontractor Worksheets can be created and processed manually or automatically via the Create Subcontracting Worksheet and Create Purchase Order actions.

Create Subcontracting Worksheet

When the Create Subcontracting Worksheet action is run, the Subcontracting Worksheet opens. The Prod. Order No. and External Service Item No. fields are updated with the production order information.

Choose the Carry Out Action Message action to create the purchase order. Alternatively, use the Create Purchase Order action to complete the process.

Note

If you need to create a purchase order from a Subcontracting Worksheet without a Production Order, run the Calculate Asm. Subcontracts action to calculate the external resources that are managed by a supplier. Then the purchase order can be created via the Carry Out Action Message action.

Create Purchase Order

The Create Purchase Order action runs the Carry Out Action Message function, which deletes the Subcontracting Worksheet line, creates a Transfer Order (if enclosures are used) and Purchase Order, and updates the related fields in the subcontracting production lines.

Process Documents

The subcontractor documents must be opened in a particular order to ensure proper processing. If enclosures are used, then a transfer order is created and must be processed before the purchase order. If a drop shipment is set for an enclosure component, a purchase order for that will be created as well (see Drop Shipment to the Subcontractor).

Process Transfer Order

The Transfer Order is used to transfer the enclosure item from the internal location to the subcontractor location.

Open the Transfer Order from the Transfer Order field on the line or from the Open Transfer Order action on the Subcontracting Assembly Lines FastTab.

Whether using warehousing or not, post the shipment and receipt to process the transfer order. As in standard Business Central, item tracking can be managed in the transfer/warehousing process. After posting, the Posted Transfer Order field in the Subcontracting Assembly line is updated with the posted document number.

The results of the posted Transfer Order can be viewed in the Prod. Order Components page, accessed via the Components action. The Location Code field displays the value of the subcontractor location code and the former location is transferred to the Old Location Code field .

Process Purchase Order

Open the Purchase Order from the Purchase Line field on the line or from the Line menu on the Subcontracting Routing Lines FastTab.

Note

All related transfer orders and drop shipment purchase orders can be opened from the main Purchase Order by choosing Order > Enclosure on the the Related menu.

After the Purchase Order is posted, the Subcontracting Production Order line is updated with the posted document number.

The Subcontracting Worksheet remains open until the Production Order is finished.

See Also

Subcontracting with Warehouse Management

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