Purchasing services

Legacy Contributor

Anyone know of a way in purchasing to handle this type of situation:

I have a Piece of Sheet metal that I purchased from Vendor A and I need to send
it to Vendor B who will cut it into the shapes we need and send it back to us.
Is there any method in purchasing to capture the cost of the sheet metal along
with the cost the vendor charges and have that received into inventory.

Legacy Contributor

This is assuming the original sheet metal and the shaped pieces are part numbers in your database:

A work order can be created with the original sheet metal as the raw material and a service tag for vendor B. You can then create a purchase order from that service tag and all the costs will flow into the finished part when the PO is received and the parts are received back into inventory.