How to handle assembled stock items

Posted by Roger Spencelayh on October 27, 2006, 1:46 pm

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I need some ideas as to the best way to handle a process of assembling
some components into finished items, some for sale and some for use in
house.

The physical process is as follows:
I buy some stock (cable, connectors and ancillary items)
I assemble some stock items into finished cables
I either keep the assemblies for in-house use or sell them.

I've looked at creating assemblies in QB (2006 Accountant version), but
the problem is that I have currently assembled 6 cables and every one
is different - different lengths, different connectors and different
coloured identifying rings. As this number is only going to increase,
defining assemblies in QB seems a bit of a pain.

What I want to achieve is use QB to track my inventory, and to invoice
the clients for a cable, which I can define via the product
description. Is there any way of doing this without defining what will
probably be about 40 different assemblies?

Thanks for any advice.

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Roger

Posted by Allan Martin on October 27, 2006, 1:57 pm

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"Roger Spencelayh" <spencelayhathotmaildotcodotuk> wrote in message

>I need some ideas as to the best way to handle a process of assembling

> some components into finished items, some for sale and some for use in

> house.

> The physical process is as follows:

> I buy some stock ()cable, connectors and ancillary items

> I assemble some stock items into finished cables

> I either keep the assemblies for in-house use or sell them.

> I've looked at creating assemblies in QB (2006 Accountant version), but

> the problem is that I have currently assembled 6 cables and every one

> is different - different lengths, different connectors and different

> coloured identifying rings. As this number is only going to increase,

> defining assemblies in QB seems a bit of a pain.

> What I want to achieve is use QB to track my inventory, and to invoice

> the clients for a cable, which I can define via the product

> description. Is there any way of doing this without defining what will

> probably be about 40 different assemblies?

> Thanks for any advice.

Do you want to track the component parts (cable, connectors and ancillary
items)?

> --

> Roger

Posted by Roger Spencelayh on October 27, 2006, 2:36 pm

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> Do you want to track the component parts (cable, connectors and ancillary

> items)?

Only from the point of view of being able to see what I have in stock. I
don't really need to know what assemblies they went into and who they were
sold to.

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Roger

Posted by QB_Guru_Amy on November 1, 2006, 11:51 am

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Hi Roger,

You may want to look into QuickBooks 2007. There is a feature called
Unit of Meaure which allows you to receive, sell and track stocked
items. This may help you with what you are trying to accomplish?

http://quickbooks.intuit.com/product/accounting_software/premier_manufacturing_wholesale_software/?view=whats_new

Thanks,
Amy

Posted by Roger Spencelayh on November 2, 2006, 4:44 am

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QB_Guru_Amy wrote:

> You may want to look into QuickBooks 2007. There is a feature called

> Unit of Meaure which allows you to receive, sell and track stocked

> items. This may help you with what you are trying to accomplish?

One thing I omitted to mention - I'm in the UK. SO I don't expect to
see 2007 until later next year.

Thanks anyway.

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Roger