Some general ideas that might or might not work in your situation – and some of them may be ugly (but you have to do what you have to do to get around this limitation!):

-If there is one particular part that you never have in stock, that always is “late” to arrive, that isn’t a part of your actual in progress work. So, take that out of the lower level WIP assembly and add it to the BOM for the finished item assembly.

-Create multiple levels of assemblies, some that pull parts now and some that pull parts later, so you can move your product through different stages of assembly as the parts are available.

-Consider using the “available quantity” feature, which I describe in another article at http://www.sleeter.com/blog/2012/03/quickbooks-available-inventory/. In this way, if your assembly is marked as “pending”, the components that you need for that assembly show up as not “available”. This is the approach that doesn’t require any modifications of your BOM, but it relies on your staff to pay attention to the concept of “available inventory”.

I need your help to parameterize the Item of both projects so that costs can be accumulated for each particular item and then get a finished product of CAD Item no need to do in excel

There are several, but I don’t have a recommendation at this time as I’ve not worked with any of them in this particular kind of situation.

You may want to find a local advisor who can work with you on this – try the “Find a Sleeter-Certified Consultant” box that is at the top of the right hand column.

Our needs currently are these – 1) to create some kind of Work Order system – we desire to issue a work order with a job no. to deliver to the shop staff to ask them to build an assembly. We hope the work order will accomplish several things – issue a specific task, list BOM, assign a job # to a build process so staff can track their hours for each build to determine labor required to make the product, and finally to create a system so we know what projects are in process in the shop. So, we need the work order itself, but also a way to track work orders in progress.

The Second thing we are needing is a way to track hours worked efficiently on each job so we can accurately calculate labor costs for each product built. I was thinking of creating a fake customer and using jobs for the fake customer to track hours when I enter payroll (I used time tracking for payroll calculations).

Feels like I am asking a lot – guess we are really trying to get things figured out – any ideas?

Thank you so much for your input,
Tammy

If the sales order is just to put demand into the system, that you are pulling from via ODBC – hard to say what you are keying on without more info – how about just deleting those sales orders after you build the items?

And, if you are using ODBC to pull items out of sales orders to generate production info – you might look at CCRQBOM. Note that this is a product that I have written and sell. It pulls the inventory assembly items out of sales orders AND generates a “requirements list” that shows you the components you need to build those items. http://www.ccrsoftware.com