Shortage Report does not calculate properly

In QB a sub assembly it an item all by itself
so if the assembly BOM shows a sub assembly - it is required

If you make your own bread, then do that with an assembly, that stocks the item bread.  Since you make bread by the loaf and then slice it - the loaf needs to be moved to a separate item as sliced bread

Yes the (hypothetical) bread is a sub assembly, and it is stocked when we do an assembly build. The bread doesn't show up on the shortage report, but it's children (flour, water) do show up. But they shouldn't be on there if we have bread already built. In short, we don't need flour to make a sandwich if we already have the bread in stock.

I appreciate you for getting back to us, Cetal.

As Rustler shared above, you'll have to create a separate assembly for the bread. Here's how you can do that:

1. From the Lists menu, select Item List.
2. Select New in the Item drop-down.
3. Select Inventory Assembly.
4. Enter an Item Name/Number.
5. Enter the ITEM.
6. Click OK.

You can also check this article to keep track on what you sell: Keep track of each sale in two ways.

Please let me know if you have any additional questions or concerns in the comment section below. I'm always here to help you.

Bread already is a separate assembly. It has flour, water, salt, yeast as its members.

Step 1- We build Bread. Now Bread is in stock.

Step 2- We try to build Sandwich. Since we have bread, we're only missing Ham.

Step 3- We run the shortage report. It says "You need Ham, Flour, and Water"

No I don't, I just need Ham. It doesn't take into account that Bread has already been built and is in stock.

Hello, Cetal. 

Thank you for getting back to us. Since the bread account is already in a separate assembly and still doesn't take you to the correct account, I recommend reaching out to our Customer support team. They can take a look at your profile and investigate further the unnecessary behavior you've encounter.  

You can follow the steps below to connect with us:  

1. Go to Help, then select QuickBooks Desktop Help.
2. Select Contact Us.
3. Give a brief description of your issue, then select Let's talk. 
4. Choose a way to connect.

To make sure you'll get prioritize to your concern, please check the availability time of or customer support team. You can contact us every Monday to Friday from 8 AM - 6 PM. Also, phone support may be limited due to volume.  

Please touch base with me here if you have any questions or clarifications. I’ll be here to help you out. Take care always!

I have already done this and unfortunately they were unable to help because this is a bug in the software. The only one who can fix it is the person who can write the code for the Shortage Report. Can you direct this to your engineers?

Hello, Cetal. 

I suggest reaching back to our Customer support team. They can create a ticket and send it to our engineering team for further investigation. 

You can follow the steps above I provided on how to reach our customer team.  

Hence, you can open our QuickBooks Desktop help articles and scroll down to the Inventory and projects section in case you need additional reference while working with your inventory in the future. 

Let me know if there's anything you need assistance with by adding a comment below. I'll get back to you as quickly as I can. Have a good day!

We are having the EXACT SAME ISSUE.  We also contacted customer service twice and, each time, we both concluded this is a fatal flaw in the software itself.  It is throwing out "false positives" and it is deeply concerning that this post is from 2021 and, here we are in 2024, and the problem STILL exists.

To the original poster - you communicated this rather tricky bug extremely well.  BRAVO!  We also don't need flour or water!! GRR!! Lol

I've given up at this point. I wish I could talk to one of their software people but that seems impossible. I'm manually going through each line and deciding whether it is legit or a false positive. 

Same here.

It's very unfortunate and causes a LOT of wasted time each time we want to build an assembly.  Our machines are complex and have 3, 4 or even 5 layers of nested sub-assemblies.  I've spoken to Intuit customer support on three different occasions and, on my last attempt, finally resorted to speaking to the supervisor in hopes they could escalate this to the software engineers directly.  To this, I was told they have absolutely no avenue to do this and that seems absolutely absurd.  It's clearly a critical bug and it's unfortunate to learn it has been an ongoing and completely unaddressed issue for years.  Was initially told they had opened an investigation on my first call only to find said "investigation" had been closed on my second call the very next day.

Deeply disappointed in every aspect of this, Intuit.

Cetal,

Might sound like a weird question, but did you happen to get QB through Fourlane ?

I am not the one who purchased it so I have no idea. I have never heard that name mentioned though.

Gotcha.  I ask because they are one of the larger 3rd party sales forces that intuit uses.  We purchased through them and had a meeting yesterday with a senior partner.  They disclosed they have direct avenues to the software engineers at intuit, etc.  They assure us they're going to escalate the issue and hopefully get it fixed although couldn't provide an ETA.  I figured if your organization also went through them it would be helpful if you also took the same route to exert more pressure, etc.  Might be worth looking into.  We actually shared your post with them because of how eloquent your description is.  Surprisingly, they claimed this is the first they've heard of it.

Our company was impacted by the pandemic and I was furloughed for about 18 months. I am back and we need to start tracking inventory again and the "powers that be" are convinced that upgrading to enterprise will fix this issue.

I reported it in the summer of 2021 but haven't tried to use it since Jan 2022.

I am very concerned that the issue isn't fixed.

Can i ask if those struggling with this are also using enterprise edition?

Thanks so much

Hi there, @NFMinger.

Let me direct you to the best help possible to acquire updates about the inventory issue in QuickBooks Desktop (QBDT).

To gain info about the issue you know about inventory, I recommend contacting the QuickBooks Desktop (QBDT) Team. They will be able to help you pull up your account and fix whatever inventory issue you have. Here's how: 

1. Go to Help, then select QuickBooks Desktop Help.
2. Give a brief description of your issue, then select Continue.
3. Sign in to your Intuit account. Select Continue and then Continue with my account.
   • If you don't already have an account, make sure to Create a new account.
4. We'll email you a single-use code. Enter your code and select Continue.
   • If you have more than one account, select the account you want to use and then Continue.
5. Select to chat with us or Have us call you.

I'll also share this help articles page about setting up and tracking your inventory: Help Articles Inventory tracking QuickBooks Desktop.

Feel free to come back here if you have additional questions about tracking your inventory. I'll be willing to help. Keep safe and have a good one.

This issue still exists in Enterprise, hopefully you can talk them out of that!