Hello.

At Easy Automation Inc. we're planning to build an integration between our software (used for production and distribution of agricultural products) and CenterPoint Accounting. The customers use both software and are primarily focused in the Animal Nutrition industry so we would primarily be making and selling animal feed. They would also be receiving ingredients/products. We plan to create A/P and A/R Invoices via your API. The other type of transaction we commonly use with other software is an Assembly transaction to deplete the components/products and create finished product inventory (animal feed in this case). I don't see an endpoint that would allow us to create an "Assembly" type transaction via the API. Is there such an endpoint, but missing documentation? If not, is there a plan to develop this feature?

We told the customer a workaround would be to create the invoice for the ingredients themselves, but this won't work for them. They need to hide the ingredients and prices from the customer on the A/R invoice. They only want the customer to see the finished product on the invoice.

Without this feature I don't think we can move forward with an integration for our common customer.

Thank you for the speedy response and we look forward to the update in a few weeks.


Kaleb

We're meeting next Monday to talk about this.

To the best of my knowledge, the CenterPoint assembly infrastructure has three parts:

1. Setting up an assembly which is just the list of component items that make it up.
2. Setting up a production run definition which is a list of assemblies that the user wants to create.
3. Executing a production run which relieves inventory of the component items and adds the assembled items into inventory.

Which of these would you want an endpoint for? I mean, which of these tasks are done outside of CenterPoint itself vs inside CenterPoint vs in the interface?

If you are maintaining the assembly and production runs outside of CenterPoint, then it seems like all you'd want to do is create a series of inventory adjustments to show the end result of the assembly process.

In CenterPoint, the assembly/production process is not part of A/R invoice process; instead, it's a separate Inventory process, and the A/R invoice only needs to show the assembled item, not its components.

Aaron is out today so I'll follow up tomorrow if I've got any of this wrong.

Edited by user Monday, May 20, 2024 3:47:41 PM(UTC)  | Reason: Not specified

Hi all, I am bumping this conversation to see if my last post made sense and if you had a conversation on this topic.


Thank you.

That works for me.