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how to manage inventory Purchasing and Sales in D365 w/o production module

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Hi. we are implementing D365 Operations (startup) that build/assemble industrial equipment (expect low transactions to begin with say 100s per month). As a first phase we are targeting Financial management with an ability to receive items and/or SO. We use different tool to design BoM and manage it there (plan to integrate with D365 at sometime in the near future).  Production module/MP/Manufacturing is not targeted for phase 1. Wondering what would be the best (simple) way to manage inventory and financials as it relate to item receipts and sale of assembled units (finished good). Note that we ship the assembled items (not a lot to begin with say 15 to 20 assembled units in the first year).   one way I thought of is to (a) setup BoM (sale units) and reference that in the SO so that the inventory is deducted when SO pick/pack/invoice or other options (b) to run some type of inventory journal (movement journal) to simulate reduction of inventory when a unit (finished good) is sold.  Option a is not preferred int he first phase.   we are going with standard costing model. Any thought would be appreciate it.   Your thoughts/feedback is appreciated. 

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    André Arnaud de Calavon Profile Picture
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    Hi RollingStonzcrm,

    You can use BOM journals to manage the inventory levels of the components and the assembled items. It is a manual action anyway, unless you consider a customization.

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    thank you Andre.  One question - Does that mean, we wound need to create BoMs for the finished good item (sale item).  Alternatively, if we go ahead with creating BoMs, would that make it easier but without production module setup?  I am trying to find - what would be the best way - when we are not implementing production module in phase I .

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    Yes, you would need to create BOMs for this. When you use BOM journals, you don't have to implement the production module.

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