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Posted on by Community Member Microsoft Employee

Hi all,

One of my client's company uses DAX 2012 and have approximately 15.000 released product. Recently we discovered that the product dimension (size, color, etc) feature was not fully used and most of those products are released without any product dimension attached to it, resulting in duplication of products because of the supposed to be dimension variation are put into product code and product dimension, example :

00212 - Biscuit Vanilla Large

00213 - Biscuit Chocolate Large

etc.

So the 'biscuit' product duplicated about 10 times to accomodate different sizes and flavors.    

My question is is that possible for us to add product dimension (size, flavor) to existing product master to create some product variants and 'deactivate' the duplicates to a bit cleanse the master product list?

This system has been run for several years and there are already quite large amount of transaction involved historically. 

 

Appreciate any help. Thanks !

Chris

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    Community Member Microsoft Employee on at
    RE: add product dimension to existing product master

    Gents, thank you for your answers, sorry to respond a bit late, got an emergency family matters that require my attention for a while.

    So it is confirmed that we need to re-create the product master one-by-one and as Sohaib Cheema said, it might raise some difficulties with users that already use the old-concept for a while.

    Anyway, thank you.

    Cheers !

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    Sohaib Cheema Profile Picture
    Sohaib Cheema 46,610 User Group Leader on at
    RE: add product dimension to existing product master

    I do agree with Andre', you need to do this all manual

    1) create new/replacement items

    2) transfer OB from to new items

    3) block usage of old items

    from usage point of view, users may face bit difficulty with change of model from Product to Product Master as they might not be in a habit to choose dimensions at this moment; whereas with model they have to select dimensions (color, size etc.) with each transaction

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    5400 7,162 on at
    RE: add product dimension to existing product master

    It is not good idea to change the dimension group after long times. you can create new item with required dimension and proceed. If you are so keen in inventory  transaction and integration with other model end to end, you can try but it will be very complex. there is no OOB functionality for same. Safer site please go with new creation.  

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    André Arnaud de Calavon Profile Picture
    André Arnaud de Cal... 291,642 Super User 2024 Season 2 on at
    RE: add product dimension to existing product master

    Hi Chris,

    There is no functional support for this. I would recommend to create new items to prevent other possilble problems. Data manipulation is not the way I woulf advice. The inventory posting is quitre difficult and easy to break with manual interference.

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