You should be able to override this with a password. Allocating inventory to a job is often a current function that can't be completed.
by: Rik M. | over a year ago | Inventory
Votes
38
Allow inventory to go negative when allocating
by: Rik M. | over a year ago | Inventory
Comments
Negative quantity on hand is a fact of life in any business with inventory to allocate or sell. Not having this ability bring to a complete halt whatever ones doing at the time.
Negative inventory is a fast of life. Product is always being received before the invoice is entered in AP. Customer sales processing is halted when book quantity is insufficient to complete a sale.
I cannot begin to express the importance for negative inventory to happen. Our accounting department is about to pull the plug on doing purchase order receipts all together which will totally impact the way we receive material and the way it impacts our purchasing department. The ripple effect of not allowing inventory to go negative is difficult to express in words. All I'm asking is to have the option to enable or disable inventory counts to go negative. My hope is that all would agree that this should be at the discretion of the customer. I do not want to impact other Sage customers and if you can allow us to choose whether or not we want to use it perhaps within system settings or preferences then everyone is happy.
Please understand that we buy/sell thousands of commodity items each and every day. We're purchasing 1.5 million dollars a month in product. These commodity products can fluctuate in pricing daily and this happens across multiple distributors with different multipliers across the board. It is impossible to keep our pricing 100% accurate across thousands of items across multiple distributors. That said we need to be able to adjust our original PO pricing in the event our original PO price was wrong. This needs to happen without impacting inventory. If we receive product in 12-4, pull product out and transfer/ship to a job using 12-2, receive invoice two weeks later and find that we need to adjust our PO price...Sage is unable to process this simple request because there is no longer available inventory to do so. This is creating hours and hours of work (PER INVOICE) to correct via inventory adjustments that we simply cannot keep up with. Our company is willing to pay for this customization if that is what it will take. I have spoken with Sage support at length on this subject a couple times in hopes that they could speak to the engineering team about it for us. I have spoken with Catherine (Catherine.schmitt@sage.com) and Greig (greig.hollister@sage.com). They have both been very understanding, patient and helpful. Please consider implementing this request or please give us the option to pay for this customization as soon as possible. Our company is currently in a radical growth period. Our hope is to continue growing and doing so with Sage as our business application. If anyone out there has a work around or thoughts on the matter please call my cell at 951-310-2526. Thank you
I cannot begin to express the importance for negative inventory to happen. Our accounting department is about to pull the plug on doing purchase order receipts all together which will totally impact the way we receive material and the way it impacts our purchasing department. The ripple effect of not allowing inventory to go negative is difficult to express in words. All I'm asking is to have the option to enable or disable inventory counts to go negative. My hope is that all would agree that this should be at the discretion of the customer. I do not want to impact other Sage customers and if you can allow us to choose whether or not we want to use it perhaps within system settings or preferences then everyone is happy.
Please understand that we buy/sell thousands of commodity items each and every day. We're purchasing 1.5 million dollars a month in product. These commodity products can fluctuate in pricing daily and this happens across multiple distributors with different multipliers across the board. It is impossible to keep our pricing 100% accurate across thousands of items across multiple distributors. That said we need to be able to adjust our original PO pricing in the event our original PO price was wrong. This needs to happen without impacting inventory. If we receive product in 12-4, pull product out and transfer/ship to a job using 12-2, receive invoice two weeks later and find that we need to adjust our PO price...Sage is unable to process this simple request because there is no longer available inventory to do so. This is creating hours and hours of work (PER INVOICE) to correct via inventory adjustments that we simply cannot keep up with. Our company is willing to pay for this customization if that is what it will take. I have spoken with Sage support at length on this subject a couple times in hopes that they could speak to the engineering team about it for us. I have spoken with Catherine (Catherine.schmitt@sage.com) and Greig (greig.hollister@sage.com). They have both been very understanding, patient and helpful. Please consider implementing this request or please give us the option to pay for this customization as soon as possible. Our company is currently in a radical growth period. Our hope is to continue growing and doing so with Sage as our business application. Thank you
If anyone else out there has a work around or any thoughts on the matter please call my cell at 951-310-2526. Thank you
I need to be able to allocate inventory beyond what is physically on hand. We get many small jobs which can come in rapidly and I need to be able to track what we need for sold jobs. Qty on hand should not be allowed to go negative (no status 4 allocations beyond available quantities) but quantity available should be allowed to go negative.
Alternatively purchase orders issued for stock parts should increase the quantity available but not the quantity on-hand, allowing me to issue a restock order and place a hold on the stock for specific jobs before it arrives.
Agreed with above. I was told that I was buying an Inventory system. What I bought is practically useless for my business. We moved off a legacy system that worked onto Sage 100 which doesn't.
I was just told a week ago 10/1/2020 by Sage that this is being resolved and may be in next update. I hope this is true, as these other posts are years old.