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Two vendors to produce one item. How to associate costs?
Hi,
I'm hoping someone can help me with this as I am stumped on how best to handle this.
We purchase an item (item A) from one vendor (1) (and pay that vendor the cost of the item), this item is then sent to another vendor (2) to add to it (basically paint it). We then pay this 2nd vendor the cost of the service. We then receive the finished product (item from the 2nd vendor.
So we need the costs associated with the item and the service applied to the finished item.
Any ideas on how to handle this in Netsuite? As for inventory, we really only need inventory of the finished product (item
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