Resources as Vendors?

NavDev

Dear experts,

is there an easy way to treat resources as vendors?

The company I am working for "buys" external consulting experts and resells them to its customers for technical auditing. Especially for liquidity aspects it would be necessary to watch the chronological expenses of the "loans" for the external resources (= vendors) in direct comparison to the corresponding payments of the company's customers.

Thanks for your help.

Kind regards,


NavDev

JulianHarper

Why not just set them up as vendors, or if that's not possible just modify the reporting on resources so you can report on various parts you need to look at?

themave

We purchased an add-on that will let you enter resources on purchase orders, seem like this would work for you

http://www.costcontrolsoftware.com/Direct%20Purchasing.htm

DenSter

Adding Resources to Purchasing is not too difficult, you just can't keep inventory on them. I doubt that would be legal anyway .

kine

And what about using Non-Stock items?

Ah, sorry, I will answer myself - not possible... :-$

Shenpen

This is exactly what the Jobs module is for. While you still cannot buy resources, you can buy G/L Accounts, assign it to a job and then compare the costs to the revenues.

As resource cost is not posted to the G/L, it might also work to consume resources on the Job Journal and then directly compare it. Of course you would also post the vendor invoice as a G/L Acc so it's double cost, but actually only the later is posted, so it might work.