Hello,
I have been tasked with trying to error proof some of our job costing issues at my company and have resolved a few issues, but I would like to check for input on one issue I haven’t put a resolution in place for yet. We have had a few instances where raw material was returned to stock after finished good on the job was received, which obviously throws off what the costs should have been and what the finished goods are showing. I know I could put in a BPM to stop the incorrect order of transactions, but we tend to have some very long running jobs where there are ongoing receipts/issues and there will eventually be a return that takes place in the midst of that (hopefully before the final receipt to stock of the finished good). I think we need to ultimately be splitting those jobs but that’s another thing to tackle. This is a pretty low occurrence issue since the materials team knows the correct order of operations, but still needs to be prevented if possible.
Does anyone here have a similar process that they’ve been successful at putting in holds/warnings to make sure job costs are preserved and material isn’t forced to be thrown away because of the accounting issues the return would present?
