assembly items

Hello there, @natalie4.

Creating your inventory item is  my priority. With that being said, allow me to help walk you through on how inventory management works in QuickBooks Desktop Enterprise.

To record and manage your inventory items accurately, you can create and build Inventory Assembly item. By doing so, you can keep track of the sub-items you need in baking a cookie. For a more detailed instruction in creating and building assembly items, you may check out this article: Create, build, and work with inventory assembly items.

If you're having difficulty building the assembly item on your end, I'd recommend reaching out to our Technical Support Team. A specialist will be able to further check on QuickBooks via secured remote access session.

Here’s how you can reach them:

1. Click this link https://help.quickbooks.intuit.com/en_US/contact.
2. Choose the QuickBooks Product.
3. Select your QuickBooks Desktop version.
4. On the Contact Us page, select a topic.
5. Click on Get Phone Number button to see the support number.

Please don't hesitate to click the Reply button if you have other questions about creating assembly items. I'm always here to help.

juViel,

Thank you for your reply. I understand how to make the assembly items, that is not the problem, the problem is selling pieces of that assembly.. I create an assembly item and then build 1 unit of it which is the total recipe which makes 100 cookies,,, that makes the "dough" but then I might take half of that dough and sell it leaving the other half in inventory until the next customer.. how do I sell a portion of a built assembly item? 

Natalie 

Hello,

We use QBES 19 Desktop and we sell commercial food-service equipment.  We have a warehouse, so we have some equipment ship here and we consolidate it and deliver it to our customer when they're ready for it on-site.  However, we also have quite a bit of equipment drop-ship, third-party from our suppliers to our customer's locations.  There are many items that we sell which are technically kits - for example a rolling rack, sold to our customer with a model number we create based on the dimensions of the rack, but the rack actually consists of multiple true inventory items (shelving).  So, we JUST started to use inventory assembly items/assembly builds and I'm not sure if using them will work for us because many of the assembly items are kits that are ordered and drop-shipped from our suppliers - so we are sometimes not assembling them; instead the customer is assembling them.  So my questions are:

1. Should we even use assembly items if they are often not assembled here?

2. If the customer wants to see an annual report showing how many rolling racks they bought in 2019, NOT how many 24x48 shelves and posts (the items that make up the rolling rack), we can't use groups, I assume.

3. Would we have to essentially double our inventory by creating identical NON-inventory parts for the items we have drop-ship?  Even though we sell all equipment both ways - bring into inventory and later deliver and invoice, as well as drop-ship.

4. We use sales orders when we enter an order in QB, and usually PO's are created from the sales order.  If we put an assembly item on a sales order, I assume we would need to manually create a PO for the items needed to complete the assembly build.  Then we would wait for the PO to be received, then "build" the assembly?  Is that the correct process? And how should that be handled if this is a drop-ship order from the manufacturer to the customer?

Thank you!

What would happen if you make a single biscuit an assembly of the batch? Can do the same for a dozen, etc.? Just dividing the batch as per. You can put quite a number of digits behind the dot, so can tweak over time to account for losses as well.

Thanks Rustler,

I am in a similar situation (BBQ Sauce not cookies) but your explanation is not computing, my fault I just don't understand. 

1. When you have made 100 cookies how do you put them in inventory (and assign a cost to them)? 

2. How do you handle COG for tax purposes?

3. I have to bottle and label my sauce, would those items be expensed as well?

4. I am starting to make and sell sandwiches, I made a non inventory item 'concessions' and create an invoice for that item, is that correct? ( I assume I need a corresponding expense account 'concessions' if not let me know).

Thanks in advance!  it's much appreciated.

Think you need to 'play' with units of measure, sounds very similar to me buying a bottle of something serving 'shots' to clients...