Non-changable bill of material in an ever changing world

This question has been idle for a while, I was wondering if anyone has ever seen a solution?

This is one of the most frustrating aspects of Peachtree for a manufacturer. We have come up with a system to work around this limitation. It's a little complicated to fully explain here, but I'll try. We use the PT purchase order system to create "manufacturing purchase orders" to buy from ourselves the manufactured product. We control the cost on our books for these finished goods via the PO, and this keeps our part numbers consistent for all finished goods; our customers do not see ever-changing part numbers. We still use BoM's to control our manufacturing process, but the parts are typed as "phantom" parts in our system. They are ever-changing just as PT suggests. I eliminate the cost of these phantom parts each month end.

The PO process gives us a lot more control over the mfg. process, because jobs are opened up at the beginning. All relevent users of PT can see the open mfg orders. Partial completion is recorded, as is final completion. On the 'Purchases/receive inventory' screen, I eliminate the A/P to ourselves by recording a negative offset on the 'apply to purchases' page.

It sounds like more work, but this "mini-ERP" system actually saves our production manager a lot of time. After I read to him your post, he actually recommened that I reply with details about our work-around.