We are a service company, we buy parts to install with labor to our customers. In the past we havent tracked inventory very well if at all, and rarely used a purchase order or properly received, inventory purchases would just go straight to bill and get added to cost of the job or to inventory cost. This worked ok as every part we bought for a job was easily seen as it was applied to the job as a lump sum as soon as the bill arrived and when it came time to invoice it was easy to find the transactions. Now, we would like to use sage if possible to track our inventory and inventory costs but have ran into a brick wall it seems.
I realize you cannot cost a line item on a purchase order to a job if the item is a inventory item. Ive learned that the idea is to add the inventory purchases to your inventory and then cost them to jobs through inventory adjustments or similar.
However, if we start using purchase orders and proper receipts, there is no way to enter these inventory item purchases to job cost at least not until the point of invoicing right?. How do you track or remember these transactions that were made for individual jobs and make certain or document that these transactions ever hit the job? I assuming someone has a similar business model, I must be missing something?
