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Need some help. We have an item that is lot controlled, we are buying the item 
except we are providing several of the components.
This means that purchasing needs to do a P.O.
Manufacturing needs to do a S.O.

Since this is an outside warehouse, we want to recieve the P.O. directly to our 
inventory, which we can, but we have to do a lot of data entry due to the lot 
numbers, which is still ok.

I am wondering what tying the shop order to the P.O. does? Is it strictly for 
costing? Is there some way that you could tie both the shop order and purchase 
order together so that you would only have to do data entry on one of the 
items, and still be able to backflush the parts.

As it stands now, the only way I have been able to minimize the data entry, is 
to open a P.O.. for the top level item, and receive the P.O. directly to our 
inventory. Then create a sub assembly for the outside warehouse with the 
components being the parts we are providing. 
This way we only receive purchase order and type in lot numbers once, the sub 
shop order you can key to the outside warehouse it relieve the components 
however, since you can't post from one warehouse to another you then end up 
with that sub showing in inventory at that outside warehouse so you would have 
to clean it up every time you post. We have the 6.0.04  Can anyone help? Is 
there something I am missing

SUSAN A. WYATT
PRODUCTION CONTROL
THE WITTERN GROUP
8040 UNIVERSITY
CLIVE   IOWA