How to deal with Job Work Scenario in SAP B1

Dear All ,
After purchasing material from one vendor the same has to sent for job work ( fabrication) , when the material complete from job work the cost of those material is increase . Please guide me for how to capture those additional cost in inventory.
Overall please brief me how to handle job work process in SAP B1.
waiting for positive response to resolve my query...
Thanks in Advance
Regards,
Harshad

hI HARSHAD
While u do the purchasing of material please make a udf to denote that the item purchased are for job work u may prepare a udf or not depending upon ur system
then once the item is purchased make a warehouse in ur system and name it as job work and then do inventory transfer and once the job work is done again do inventory transfer with increased price that would include ur job work price
its worthwhile to chekc that in ur test database first and see if it fulfills ur concern or not
Regards,
Manish

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*clip*clip*clip*
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' Update the Service Entry to stop and delete service while uninstalling
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' Update the Service Entry to stop and delete service while installing
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+ componentName + "')"
Set view = database.OpenView(query)
: CheckError
view.Execute : CheckError
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We can uninstall service first by following Strategy 2, but then we lose transactional support.
So, Simon did I encourage you to change your code a bit?:)
And, btw, if you don't want to change the strategy, please don't rely on SequenceID in MSI table, it can be change, you have to get the at the runtime.
Hope it will help to everybody!
See also more advanced explanation of how MSI works
here.
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