Has anyone dealt with the following type of outsourced manufacturing and if so, how did you or how would you handle it in Acumatiça?
Company purchases the primary raw material in volume and drop ships it to the outsourced manufaturing vendor (treated as a warehouse in Acumatica). When production orders are needed from that outsourced vendor, the outsourced vendor mixes additional raw materials not owned by the company with the raw material owned by the company and then packages the product (more raw materials) before shipping to the company and invoicing the company for those fully packaged items without the cost of the primary raw material.
At this point, the product is coming into the system without the cost of the raw material. I suppose that we could have the items coming from the outsourced vendor be treated as a component item for a production order after the item arrives fully packaged into the warehouse. The needed raw material could then be transferred from the vendor warehouse to the company production warehouse and used in an after the fact production order that combines it with the purchased item from the vendor.
Is this the best way to approach this type of scenario? Any other possible ways of responding to this scenario other than customization?
Best,
David Eichner, CPA