can you build "real" assemblies in Peachtree 2004?

[stylo]

Quickbooks is terrible at assemblies. Will PT 2004 allow me to include various parts plus paint charges, labor, whatever, in an assembly?

We restore bikes and every one is different thought they include many of the same items. We take an old unit from stock and fix it up.

Suggestions?

[Lisa_p]

You want Peachtree Premium 2005 for manufacturing which no only will allow you to build assemblies, it will allow you to edit the bill of materials as needed.

I have a client who mixes a chemical product. Each batch uses slightly different quantities of raw materials and yields a slightly different quantity, so we make the BOM revisions for each batch. You could do the same with your bikes.

[stylo]

Sorry, actually the version my friend has is PT 2005 Complete. Does that not help?

What about Quickbooks Enterprise manufacturing? Do you know? I can geta good deal on that one.

Also, can any of the progs include labor/service charges in an assembly?

[Lisa_p]

PT2005 Complete will do assemblies, but you can't alter the BOM which sounds like you might need to do if different bikes get different parts.

You can create a dummy item to add a labor cost, but it's not true labor tracking.

I don't have any experience with the QB mfg. version, so can't tell you anything there.

It would probably be worth the money to upgrade to premium acct.

good luck!

[stylo]

Thanks.

when you say will do assemblies, will they work better than in QB Pro 2003?

So we could make painting an item, but can we change it's cost in the assembly, or we have to say at the outset, paint1 costs $100, paint2 costs $200 and add those to assemblies?

Does paint1/2 have to be an inventory item, or non-inventory?

Could we do an assembly for each bike by waiting until done, then add in all the items needed and call the assembly by it's serial number? That might work, huh? We don't sell too many a month.

Would the same ideas work in quickbooks pro 2003, if you know, the version we have now?

Just trying to figure an easy way to do this, otherwise we have to go to an inventory program. (Any ideas there? Was looking at Almyta and looks good.)

Thanks so much for the help.

[TheWolf]

Peachtree runs circles around Quickbooks as far as handling inventory and posting to GL's. You can even set it up so that your labor burdens are taken from the payroll expense and allocated to specific cost when you create a finished good. You just have to be trained how to use it like this.

[Lisa_p]

Yes, they are true assemblies that you can build and stock - not like QB.

I would strongly encourage you to spring for the extra $ to upgrade to Premium. Then you could have one set paint rate and just change the quantity "used" on the BOM before each build.

You can have non-inventory and service type items in an assembly, as well as other assemblies. Just be careful to build the sub-assemblies before the assemblies.

Good luck!

[stylo]

>Peachtree runs circles around Quickbooks

Just playing with it I see you can easily copy assemblies/items, something so obvious that QB doesn't seem to have thought of. So that's good. We could always just copy, edit, rename if not doing too many custom assemblies a year.

>spring for the extra $ to upgrade to Premium
-yes, thing is I might just get a 3rd party system like Almyta, so weighing options.

Locations:

How do people handle stock locations in Peachtree? I was thinking the matrix of attributes for an item could handle that as the first attribute. We have 3 locations. At least it is neater than the mess you must create in QBs.

Suggestions on locations?