Contains information about items that your company sells but does not carry in inventory. You can handle the sale of a nonstock item in one of two ways:
| Option | Description |
|---|---|
Drop Shipment | The item is shipped from the vendor directly to the customer. You buy and sell the item but do not handle, stock, or deliver it. |
Special Order | You purchase a nonstock item from the vendor especially for a customer, receive it at your warehouse and ship it to the customer, either by itself or in combination with other items on the sales order. |
To register information in the Nonstock Item table, you fill out a card for each nonstock item with basic information such as name, unit of measure, and unit price. You can enter this information manually or import it into the table using a dataport.
When a nonstock item is entered on a sales line for the first time, the program uses the information contained in the Nonstock Item table to generate an item card, to add a record to the item vendor catalogue, and to generate an item cross reference, (if the cross-reference information has been registered).
When you create an item card in this manner, the item number is created according to the rules defined in the Nonstock Item Setup table.