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Join nowMy company makes various machines using bought parts and custom made parts. Some of these are assemblies that include several other parts. I am trying to display a "waterfall" view of all parts, whether through a report or list view:
- Assembly 1
- Assembly 1.1
- Part 12
- Assembly 1.2
- Assembly 2
- Assembly 1.2...
The issue I have is that certain parts and assemblies appear within more than just one other assembly, preventing me from listing them as a sub-item of any one assembly, as they need to show in all of them. Based on this discussion, it seems like it isn't possible to simply display a report containing a list of BOM parts for assemblies. Ideally, I would create BOMs for each assembly and run necessary reports, but I can't find a way to display assembly parts.
Any kind of tip would be greatly appreciated, even if it means knowing that it cannot be done.
Hi there, @Nemanja.
Thanks for reaching out to the Community. I hope you're enjoying your day so far. I'm happy to provide insight into viewing your BOM in a waterfall view.
The discussion you've shared in your post, you're correct. Currently, QuickBooks Desktop doesn't offer this feature just yet. As mentioned by my colleague in that thread, we have submitted a feedback request, so this could be considered in a future update. You can, however, follow our latest happenings and updates using our Blog Site.
On the other hand, you can review your BOM by editing the Build Assembly that's within your Item list.
To learn more about BOM, check out, Set up your product's bill of materials.
Please let me know if you have further questions or concerns. You can reach out to the Community at any time. We're always here to lend a helping hand. Take care!
Thank you for a quick reply.
I am aware of the BOM option within an assembly, but it doesn't effectively solve the problem I have. What I was hoping to do is display the list of all items and assemblies for a particular job, namely through a sales order report since I couldn't find a different way, and see all the assembly parts within that list. As it is right now, it appears that we'll have to go through assemblies individually and check out their BOMs for manufacturing purposes; this can get taxing when machines are complex and have a lot of assemblies within them.
If there is some other way of viewing such a list, please let me know. As I've mentioned, the best I could do was create a sales order for a particular job, include all the parts regarding that job within that sales order, and then do a Sales Order by Item report, filtering by jobs/customers.
Hello,
We are a car manufacturer and I am facing the same problem as you.
I would like to extract all the parts that make up my car and have details of all the assemblies that make up my car.
We have up to 6 levels of assembly.
Assembly within an assembly, within an assembly, within an assembly that is within an assembly.
Have you found a solution to do this?
I have the impression that we're quickly reaching the limits of QuickBooks and that's a shame.
Thank you in advance if you have found a solution other than manual.
Wishing you a good day
Hello there, @youmick5 .
I can see that you've already posted this concern here in the Community forum, and my colleague @RheaMaeH, provided a solution to help you resolve this as soon as possible.
I'll be glad to route you to her suggestion. Kindly see the link below:
Let me know if you still need further assistance managing assemblies or anything else about QuickBooks Desktop (QBDT). I'm always be here to further assist you. Keep safe always!
Sherrie, you lack a great deal of professionalism...
Did you at least take the time to read your colleague's reply?
She didn't give me any solution.
She simply told me that she didn't have any solution and explained to me how I still have to waste my time reporting this problem to your technical support when you could very well report it yourself.
It's now 4 years since this topic was opened and you still haven't found a solution or made an update to fix it...
Sorry to say, but you're just incompetent and your software is outdated and excessively limited.
I'd rather look for another solution from the competition
Do you run QB Desktop Enterprise?
Yes
Hello youmick5. I apologize for a late reply, I became a father in the past week and I've had little spare time for anything.
I'm afraid I couldn't find a solution to this issue within QuickBooks (QB) at the time. It has been a while since I've used QB, so I can't really advise you on an alternative approach or how to proceed in order to get the results within QB itself. Having a structured view and data availability was crucial for my company, so we eventually strayed away from QB and I ended up creating a custom application to fulfil this need.
I'm sorry I can't be of more assistance. In case you have any more questions, I'd be more than willing to answer.
Good luck!
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