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Assembly Item in BC that is also directly Purchasable as Finished Goods?

Hi everyone, we’re evaluating a business requirement and need guidance:

In our process, certain items are defined as assembly items because components are normally assembled internally. However, in several business scenarios each month, we need to buy the finished assembly directly from a vendor instead of building it.

In QuickBooks, there’s a simple checkbox to mark an item as both “buildable” and “purchasable as finished goods.” In Business Central, we cannot find an equivalent setting on the Item Card.

Here’s what we need:

The item must be assembly-buildable via an Assembly BOM
The same item must optionally be purchased as a finished good on a Purchase Order
The system should not force assembly and should allow buying finished stock instead

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