Selling out from a subcontracting location that is linked to an inter-company site

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Hi Guys,

Hope you can help as it looks like there is not a clean way to manage this other than Misc. Issue/Reciepts which I am trying to avoid. The scenario is as follows:

  • There are two companies A (distributor) B (manufacturer) configured in X3 V12
  • Company A subcontracts manufacturing from B, in the product we have a sub con BOM created
  • In Company a we have a location as Subcontracting and due to logistics all the stock required for sub contracting is transferred in Bulk to the sub con location.

For the most part this is working well, as Company A places a PO for stock and the intercompany automation creates a SO in BO with a B2B WO, all good.

The issue is that occasionally Company A will sell material that is in the subcontracting location, I understand that we need to bring the stock back to the internal location in A but because we are using a subcontracting location linked to a BP that is a site, you cannot do this using any of the standard flows like subcontracting transfers, returns, shipments etc. The only way seems to be a misc. issue and then receipt which is not ideal.

Any ideas?

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    Moving all raw materials to a subcontract location is only suitable if the raw material is exclusively for manufacturing. If the raw material is needed for other allocations, then it should be only moved to the sub-contracting location via allocation to a subcontract order first. Then you could de-allocate the subcontract order which would release the material to storage, making it available for other allocations. 

    Check if there could be an entry point to do the stock location change??

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    Thank You Qeqesha, the challenge is that the stock exists in bulk in the subcontractor location as this is where primary manufacturing occurs and is most cost effective instead having to send stock for each order which is not practical, the fact that the subcontractor is a company in X3 made me think it would be easier.

    Anyway, we were able to create another BP that is not a site and link it to the same sub con location which allows us to manage the process via a standard sub con return.