Hello everyone! I am exploring some unused corners of Epicor, and found out that we don’t use Subcontractor Shipment Entry. When we ship parts out for outside vendor services, we just produce a purchase order that goes with the shipment. We do our shipping in UPS or FedEx software.
What would we gain from adding the extra step of creating a subcontractor shipment entry?
We do use Customer Shipment Entry for shipping final parts to our customers. I just can’t figure out why we never setup our SC shipment entry.
The parts aren’t in inventory yet. We only add them to inventory if there are extra parts. The part number stays the same on the way out and on the way back.
You will still need a PO for the subcontracted operation. This is needed to pay the supplier and get the cost of that operation onto the job on receipt back from the sub contractor.
The material is issued to the job which has the subcontracted operation. In our case it comes back as a different part number. I think it can come back as the same part number also, I am not too sure. Maybe someone here can confirm.
We use subcontract shipment entry for any subcontract job operations. Depending on what’s being done, the part may come back as a new part number or the same part number, so either way can be done.
The benefit to using it as opposed to just doing it in UPS/FedEx (from my POV):
Increased visibility in Epicor; anyone with job tracker can view the status of a subcontract (ship date / due date) without needing access to UPS/FedEx
Subcontract op’s should auto-complete whenever the subcontract shipment gets received back into WIP.
Can tie in mandatory inspections to the PO receipt