Inventory Issues

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Hello, my company currently uses inventory management to track in house supplies. We are a medical facility, that has 70+ departments.  We do not sell the inventory outside of the company, however as departments need supplies we do an "Inventory Issue" to issue supplies to that department. We have set up each department within the company as a "Job", and we issue supplies to that Job so that the cost is moved to the GL account associated with that department. At the end of each month, we run a job cost entry to post the sales tax to each department for the associated items that were issued during the month. This process was created long before I was hired. Is this the appropriate or easiest way to handle this process? If this is the preferred method, is there anyway to change the description of inventory issues when they post to the GL. Currently, every item shows up on the GL as "Inventory Transaction (ISSUE)". It would be helpful to see a description of the item that was issued. Any help is greatly appreciated. 

Thanks,

Brad

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    Take a look at Purchase Order, the Material Requisition feature.  This from the Help files:

    The Purchase Order module is used to process internal requests for an item. Material requisition types of orders are entered in the Purchase Order Entry window and can be printed individually or with a group of purchase orders. Printed material requisitions provide an acknowledgment to the person making the request and reflect any changes made to the original requisition.

    When the requested items are issued out of inventory, the information is entered in Material Requisition Issue Entry. A Material Requisition Register is printed and updated, and the inventory on-hand quantities are adjusted.

    Only inventory items, miscellaneous charge items, and comments can be entered. Special items and miscellaneous charges cannot be entered.

    When the Job Cost module is integrated with Purchase Order, cost codes with a cost type of subcontract cannot be entered for any item on a material requisition.