Subcontracting
Subcontracting Order and Receipt — outsourced production where you supply the raw material and a supplier does the work.
Outsourced manufacturing: Subcontracting Order and Subcontracting Receipt, bridging Buying and Manufacturing.
What it does
Subcontracting is procurement of a service that transforms your own stock. You transfer raw materials to a supplier warehouse, the supplier performs the operation, and you receive the finished item back. A Subcontracting Order (raised from a Purchase Order for the service item) defines the supplied items; a Subcontracting Receipt books the finished goods and consumes the supplied raw material at the same time.
Key features
- Service item — a non-stock item on the Purchase Order that represents the subcontracting charge.
- Subcontracting BOM — maps the finished item to the raw materials to be supplied.
- Supplied-items tracking — per-order table of transferred, consumed and returned quantity at the supplier warehouse.
- Subcontracting Receipt — receives the finished item and backflushes the raw material in one document.
- Valuation — the supplier’s service charge is absorbed into the finished item’s valuation rate.
Entity relationships
Each diagram below is one connected cluster of entities. Edges are labelled with the fieldname that carries them — see relationship notation for how to read the crow’s feet.
Document composition
Parent documents and the child tables they own.
| Parent | Table field | Child table | Req |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subcontracting Inward Order | items |
Subcontracting Inward Order Item | yes |
| Subcontracting Inward Order | received_items |
Subcontracting Inward Order Received Item | |
| Subcontracting Inward Order | secondary_items |
Subcontracting Inward Order Secondary Item | |
| Subcontracting Inward Order | service_items |
Subcontracting Inward Order Service Item | yes |
| Subcontracting Order | additional_costs |
Landed Cost Taxes and Charges | |
| Subcontracting Order | items |
Subcontracting Order Item | yes |
| Subcontracting Order | service_items |
Subcontracting Order Service Item | yes |
| Subcontracting Order | supplied_items |
Subcontracting Order Supplied Item | |
| Subcontracting Receipt | additional_costs |
Landed Cost Taxes and Charges | |
| Subcontracting Receipt | items |
Subcontracting Receipt Item | yes |
| Subcontracting Receipt | supplied_items |
Subcontracting Receipt Supplied Item |
Entity reference
Transactions
3 entities — submittable business documents that post ledger entries.
Masters
1 entity — reference data with an independent lifecycle.
Child tables
9 entities — row sets owned by exactly one parent document.
Related modules
Buying
Supplier, Request for Quotation, Supplier Quotation and Purchase Order — the procure-to-pay chain.
Manufacturing
BOM, Production Plan, Work Order and Job Card — planning and executing production against stock.
Stock
Item, Warehouse, and every movement of quantity and value — Stock Ledger Entry, Bin, batches, serials and reconciliation.