Hi,

The issue we have is that a part is normally purchased. (Part type = Purchased in Inventory Part => cost template P-140 Planned purchased cost template ). But occasionally it is required to manufacture the part locally. When manufacturing locally the shop order also need outside operations.

But with this setup the Shop Order is missing cost buckets to collect the outside operation costs and therefor we are unable do arrival for outside operation related purchase order. Currently we are solving the issue by temporarily changing the part type to Manufactured at the time of arrival of the outside operation related purchase order and then immediately change it back. (because we want to ensure that the MRP generated SO-req and not PO-req)

I suppose that one solution could be to add manufacturing related cost buckets into cost template P-140 but I don’t believe that is the recommended way to handle this. If so why should we have different cost templated for manufactured and purchased parts?

Or should we create a new purchase cost template with all relevant cost buckets and use this in a part cost group and override the standard cost template for these specific parts?

Any recommendations from your side would be appreciated.