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Costing of consumable parts (inventory vs. non-inventory)

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Hi all,

From everything I've read:

  • Inventory is a must if you want costing / GL entries on items
  • Non-inventory lacks most financial transactions

I work in discrete manufacturing and assembly. We manufacture products with screws, nuts bolts, that we:

  • Need in a BOM
  • Needs to roll up cost
  • Needs to transact on GL account
  • Needs to be included in planning worksheet
  • Do not want to count / track 

We have set these items to type of inventory , but that is problematic, as now we have 1000s of small assembly hardware to track in inventory.

If we set to non-inventory, we lose all financial implications of these transactions.

Is there a feature in BC to provide a happy medium? We are a discrete manufacturer that has many small kanban items that we need to buy and validate for finance, but not track inventory of.

Thank you

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    DAnny3211 Profile Picture
    11,423 Super User 2026 Season 1 on at

    hi

    look this

    learn.microsoft.com/.../service-how-setup-service-costs-pricing

    DAniele

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    YUN ZHU Profile Picture
    101,995 Super User 2026 Season 1 on at

    Hi, Unfortunately, I feel like the only option without customization is to use Non-Inventory.
    Below is the official description from Microsoft.

    https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dynamics365/business-central/inventory-about-item-types

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    Hopefully other experts can give you better advice.

    Thanks.

    ZHU

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    Ben Baxter Profile Picture
    7,115 Super User 2026 Season 1 on at

    What is the issue you are experiencing?

    I created a non-inventory part, gave it a cost of $10, added it to a BOM w/ Routing Link Code, then output units on the linked routing step.  The Non-Inventory Item was "consumed," and my production order has the cost showing in the Item Ledger Entries impacting the production order.  Notice there is a separate column added to track Non-Inventory costs on the entries.

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