Sage 100

Tracking Serial Numbers on Std Cost Items - Any ideas? I have a light manufacturing customer who wants to switch to std cost accounting to manage by variances. And they want to track serial numbers for audit purposes and customer service repair. Some of the finished goods are made via BM Prod Entry. Some of the finished goods are straight buy / sell Does anyone know of an add on or work around in MAS to have both std cost PPV and serial number tracking?

UDF, depending on needs?

UDF is the path I'm taking at this time. Just checking if anyone else had come up with a magic solution :)

@ClarkWalliser with all the areas you'd need to setup and prompt for UDF for imitating s/n using std cost, wouldn't is be easier to set up std cost UDFs and let the system deal with the serial number prompting and history? Or is this a valuation issue GL side?

@MoiraGoggin it's a manufacuring company with a new CFO that is oriented toward standard cost accounting for PPV and Mfg Variances. So Std Cost Valuation it is... Fortunately, after a 2 hour meeting, it's been determined that the only thing they need the Ser Number for is in sales history so customer service can look up which ser number they purchased. This reduces the number of UDFs needed. Only Invoice History.

That's a bit easier to deal with, except when a user ""sells"" the same s/n to more than one customer. A UDT with a quantity field might help to prevent selling s/n with qoh of zero.