How can I sell a part that has been purchased and sent for repair?
Let's say you sourced an item in AR condition and outsourced its repair to another company to finally sell it to one of your customers.
Read on to find out the steps to follow and which of these steps will have an effect on the inventory records.
When creating the RO, make sure to link the RO to the PO, and to reference the item serial number (S/N). Bottom line, there must be a warehouse entry for the item serial number (S/N), either through a PO or by manually signing in the part into the stockroom.
Notice that when saving the data to the RO, the item quantity under Bird View will be moved to the On-Repair status.
Once the part is returned from Repair, i.e., it's RECEIVED through the RO, the part condition defaults to REPAIRED (RE) - which can be changed if desired- and the "Save in stock" checkbox is marked by default.
The part status will then be placed back In Stock under Inventory> Bird View.
Next, you can either ship out the part, or create a Sales Order; for the latter option, you'll have to reference the PO through which the part entered the stockroom. For more about SO click here. (place a link to the SO article).
Whereas the "Ship" function does not have any purpose other than generating the shipping ticket, the "Invoicing" action will take the item out of the stockroom.
