Sage 100

End user on Sage 100 Advanced v2016 PU3 -- they have some light assembly of printed circuit boards. Because it's cheaper to send these outside than to pay people internally they frequently bundle up the components and send a batch out to a labor house to do the assembly. In this case all that the company pays is an assembly charge which varies based on the # of pieces assembled. Have you dealt with adding this cost onto a BOM before? As of now I have a BOM for the assembly but am not sure if there's a better way to add the outside labor than by creating a PO and tieing it to the WO. Their question is whether there is a way to vary the assembly cost by the # of pieces assembled (ie - for 10 pieces they pay $10, for 100 they pay $50). Is there a good way to automate this cost or do most people just manually enter in the assembly cost?

you could set the ""assembly"" up as an inventory item and then apply quantity discounts on the cost from the vendor. if it is charged directly to a work order you wouldn't have to worry about receiving quantities increasing inventory. it would never hit inventory.

That is a great use of discounts - if it is received however, be careful what valuation method is used.