• Bill of Materials - Parent & Component Serial Numbers

    The Bill of Material allows a parent item with components. Is there a way to create a serial number for the Parent Item and then assign serial numbers for the components? Thanks!
  • Inventory Item Type

    Do you have to list a product type on the Item Maintenance screen? What if you don't want to breakdown your inventory items?
  • Non-inventory purchase orders

    How do you handle purchase orders for non-inventory items. Two examples - 1) the office heater is broken, we call repair shop to fix it - PO needs to be created to match up with billing invoice,do you just use a comment field? But do you still have to…
  • Can users be prevented from creating "On The Fly" units of measure in Item Maintenance?

    For example, we have " EA " setup in our Units Of Measure Conversion Maintenance and the users should be selecting it from the UOM lookup but that doesn't always happen. Over the years, inventory managers at different locations have entered items items…
  • Inventory with serial numbers

    We have a finished good that is serialized, however we will now be selling this item with an additional component that we would like deducted from inventory automatically. We had considered changing the serialized item into a 'kit', however that would…
  • Can't Add New Product Codes in Item Maintenance

    When we enter a new item code into "Item Maintenance," it used to create a new product in the system. However now when we enter a new product code, everything goes blank, but it says "NEW" right by the Description (as it would do before). Everything else…
  • Change Default for Inventory Valuation

    Does anyone know how to change the valuation default in Item Maintenance from Standard to Lot? Trying to prevent incorrect entries when setting up a new inventory item. Thanks for your help!
  • Sequentially numbering Inventory Items - Pros and Cons

    I have a client that is exploring the idea of converting their inventory numbers (most are vendor numbers) to be generic numbers that will be sequential. They are a service company that has 16 years of Sage data. Some parts are drop shipped to their customers…
  • Where can I find cross reference by program information?

    In the pre-business framework days, this information was available in the resources link. I need to know which files are used by the Inventory Trial Balance report.
  • Beginning Quantity

    Can anyone tell me when the "Beginning Quantity" is set in Sage 100C? We make adjustments after an actual count on the last day of our fiscal year but those adjustments are posted back to period 12 after we have advanced to period 1. I have a feeling…
  • User Limit exceeded (no topic in base Knowledge)

    Hello We just Update from sage 2013 to a 2016 Version, But now I am getting a message " User Limit exceeded" I did try the base knowledge but I could not fine any topic about this message. If you have any suggestion please let me know Thank you…
  • Reserve Inventory

    Is there a way in Sage to reserve inventory without creating a sales order? Thank you,
  • Have an item with 2 alias from same vendor

    When I print the PO it lists the item on the PO twice, once for each alias. Is there any way to have multiple alias for same item/vendor or do I have to create a new item key? Reason being is the vendor sells same product from 2 different suppliers.
  • Lot Costing, Need Price Code to Pull Last Item Cost

    Using Lot Costing here for our Inventory Costing. I have all price codes set up - but for those pulling from cost, it's pulling from the Standard Cost (as it should) - BUT I need it to pull from the Last Item Cost. How can I change this? Each individual…
  • Direct Labor Costs Built into Bill of Materials for Items Sold as a Kit (always explode)

    We have a packaging company with a large variety of items which are packed to order. As we don’t prepack, virtually all our sales are through kits with the option selected to “always explode”. We do have a bill of materials (BOM) for each kit as items…