Inventory Problems

[CindySV]

I better put my ignorance right up front -I am very new at this! I am a nurse- but my husband has started his own business and I now find myself in the role of accountant, purchasing dept, inventory, secretary etc. I thought I was doing pretty well, until I got stumped by some inventory issues. We manufacture a few specific machines. We have one company we sell to only. We buy parts from various venders. We buy pre-cut metal pieces from a single local vendor. Here are some of the questions I have. I had been using the vendors ID# for our part number because I wanted that number to appear on the purchase orders. I see now that is not working, as we sometimes need to buy a single part from different vendors - depending on cost, availability etc. So how do you get the vendors part number to show on the PO? Do you hand edit that each time since it comes up with the part number it is assigned? On that same note, is there a convient way of listing alternate part sources, part numbers for a part that may have to come from different vendors? Also, I set up assemblies for various parts of the machines. I made sure that the correct price of each part was listed, but I can not find a way to generate a report that shows what the cost of each assembly is? I have lots more questions, so I guess the main question I should ask is where I should go for these answers? I have the manual and am just not finding the answers I am looking for. Maybe I am asking the program to do things it just is not meant to do. Thanks for reading this novel!

[sypro]

I have not found a supreme way of showing the vendor's ID number on the purchase order either. What I have been doing is putting the vendor name and part number inside the item's Description for Purchases. This field prints on the purchase order. I also list my alternate part numbers in this field as well. I know this isn't a perfect solution, but it does do the job.