Material to be provided to subcontractor' site/

Hi
I have requirement that the finished material is sent for subcontracting to the Vendor.One of the raw materials is procured from another Vendor and sent directly to the subcontractor.
The scenario can be mapped partially by creatingf the PO for that Vendor   setting the Indictor "Subcontracting Vendor" and you provide the Subcontractor Vendor no in the "Delivery Address " tab of the Purchase Order.
When we do the GR for the raw material the stock for the Stock Material is updated at Subcontractor'e end directly but my problem is how do I consume that stock.
I mean when we do the Goods Receipt of the finished product from the Subcontractor the stock of the raw material which was supplied by the Vendor directly to the Suncontractor should also get consumed similar to our normal subcontracting.
Does anybody know how to map this scenario?
Regards
V

Hi
There is small problem in process. Lets assume that "X" your finished product. You are buying "Y" from vendor and delivering at subcontractor's place.
GR of subcontracting should be for the material Z (X+Y). I mean to say You should have subcontracting PO(assume 451111) for "Z"which have  components as "X" and "Y" in PO material tab.
You should make GR for PO 451111. So that you get stock of Z in your plant and the material you sent X and you delivered directly Y will be consumed.
You cannnot say I will send X and I will receive also X from subcontractor.Then it will become illogocal and illegal process. Because at any point of time the valuation price of "X" not equal to "X+Y".
Hope you are clear
regards
Antony

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                                   3, only minor health problems
                                   1, in very good health
       Companion state = 5, must have another cat or cats as company
                                   3, could be with other cat(s) company
                                   1, does not need the company of another cat
    Now, with this initial information (granted this is very rough), my question:
    How, armed with CS5, should I attack the problem of getting this web site up and running?
    Keeping in mind that I really would like to learn how to use CS5, and that this would be my first web site project.
    Any suggestions, study plan, references, etc. would be welcomed.
    Message was edited by: Birdy40 because of some small errors and changes.

    In keeping with bregent's admonition - it will invariably turn out more complicated than you imagined, if only because the more you do with this the more you will think of to do. In addition to the excellent suggestions of David Power's books and w3schools, I would offer one other bit of advice: Simplify. Make  your initial project the simplest possible, and then gradually adding more and more features. That will make it easier for you - and this forum - to help along the way.
    Perhaps as a first step, create a database with a few entries and then write code to retrieve the data.Even there you may find fields will need to be adjusted, added or removed or even redefined. Try all sorts of queries. Eventually you can create pages that will allow the input to be done with a form.
    Good luck with the project./
    Barry

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