There are times when you purchase parts that there may be damaged goods within your purchases.  If this is just a few parts within a pack of hundreds these are often just discarded and left unaccounted for.

 

If you would like to manage your waste so that you know exactly what you have written off as waste for the end of year tax returns we would suggest doing the following.

 

Create a “Fake” Piece.  This may be one piece or several depending on how many items of waste you may have.

 

If it is just one piece name it accordingly – something like “Waste Materials”.

 

If you have a lot of waste that you need to account for you may need to create several pieces so you can categorize your waste.  In this case we would suggest creating the pieces with a common denominator in the name. i.e.

 

• Waste beads
• Waste string
• Waste paper….  etc.

 

This will make it easier to find the “Fake” piece/s in your list views at a later time.

 

Now any time that you have waste material you can add it to your “Fake” piece. This will create one (or more) “Fake” pieces that have been created from your waste material allowing you to account for the stock.

 

You may now run a BOM for your fake piece/s to see how much waste you have had during the month/year.