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Implementation of D365 Finance & SCM for a 3PL/LaaS company

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Posted on by Mirza Mujib Ur Rahm... 1,443
Dear all,
We are currently in studying one of the requirements. Our requirement is for a LaaS (logistics as a service provider) or a 3PL company where they receives the inventory in their warehouses for a customer and shipped the inventory to the customers stores/outlets upon their request through our fleet (again chargeable to the customers). Now there are couple of points to be noted.
1. Customers pay the fees only for renting the spaces (Pallets) in our warehouses. In this way, please let me know how do we manage the inventory i.e. receiving the inventory through purchase order but it shouldn't hit the inventory ledger profiles as these inventory belongs to our customers but at the same time, we need to maintain these inventory values for the purpose of "Insurance".
2. I highly appreciate if someone can share the cycle for this 3PL or LaaS D365 F&O implementation they had done successfully in the past.
 
Please excuse my explanation if this is not clear, I will my best to explain further.
 
Thank you,
 
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    Laurens vd Tang Profile Picture
    Laurens vd Tang 4,671 Super User 2026 Season 1 on at
    Hello Mirza,
     
    I recall from a past project that we designed and implemented a similar process.
    We configured a separate warehouse where the stock was tracked but held without inventory value. To update the stock without affecting inventory valuation, we used a movement journal.
     
    Best regards,
    Laurens van der Tang
  • Ranjanj Profile Picture
    Ranjanj 294 on at
    Hello Mirza

    Better create a out of range main account such as 99XXXXX for you inventory and P&L , configure the Inventory posting against these main account.  For you balance sheet and P&L  ignore these Main accounts. Also, better to have a separate warehouse for each customer. Then, configure the Inventory value report for your insurance purposes. 

    Point to note: Are you using landed cost? and how the charge posting going to take place ? , What is the Item model for costing?
     
    Also , there is a feature in China localization where you can define Inventory posting per warehouse, if your customer is from China you can consider this. 


    May be the approach need to change accordingly.
     
    Thank you.
  • Mirza Mujib Ur Rahman Baig Profile Picture
    Mirza Mujib Ur Rahm... 1,443 on at
    Thank you @Laurens vd Tang for you response.
     
    If we use a movement journal to update the inventory without effecting inventory valuation, then how would we issue a GRN to the customer and there will be no purchase order to the customer. And what will be the offset account for the movement journal.
     
    I really appreciate if you can provide me more details.
     
    Thank you again Lauren.
     
  • Mirza Mujib Ur Rahman Baig Profile Picture
    Mirza Mujib Ur Rahm... 1,443 on at
    Thank you Ranjanj for your response.
     
    Would you please explain me what is the advantage or use of having separate warehouse for each customer.
     
    With respect to landing cost, it is related to some cusotmers we charged, and to some they send the shipments from their vendor/supplier. so basically, we will follow the procurement cycle to issue the PO to the customer and upon receiving their inventory, we issue GRN, this way we can apply any additional charges. And as you mentioned we need to create separate out of range accounts for inventory and P&L and linked them to the inventory posting and these accounts will be separated from Balance sheet, P&L. Would you please elaborate here, how this way we are not adding inventory value to our ledgers but at the same time charging the customers to the space they rented and maintaining inventory value for the insurance purpose. I'm not purely from finance but will helps me understand the requirement in a proper way.
     
    Please let me know if there is any better approach then this.
     
    Thank you again Ranjanj for your support.
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    Ranjanj 294 on at
    Hello Mirza
     
    Thank you for the explanation.
     
    Kindly  explain how  and when the stock is removed from your warehouse? what is  the financial impact ?
    Also to send a PO , you need to have a Vendor. so are you planning to create the customer as your vendor in the system ?
  • Mirza Mujib Ur Rahman Baig Profile Picture
    Mirza Mujib Ur Rahm... 1,443 on at
    Hello Ranjanj,
     
    thank you for following up.
     
    Stock will be removed upon a request from customer that so and so inventory needs to send to one of their outlets through a container i.e. our fleet and the container might contain deliveries for multiple customers and this should happen through a sales order (However reciving the inventory to store in our warehouse is through the purchase order. this is what we map so far, is there any better approach than this).
     
    There shouldn't be any financial impact upon receiving or deliverig inventory, however we should maintain the inventory value only for the insurance purpose and the charges we charged to customer for renting our space in our warehouses.
     
    I tried my best to explain you, hope this makes sense.
     
    Thank you again Ranjanj.
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    Ranjanj 294 on at

    Hi Mirza,

     

    Sorry for the delayed response.

     

    The best approach I can suggest is to create a separate warehouse for each customer. You can then map the respective warehouse as the default for both the vendor and the customer. Stock movements (IN and OUT) can be handled via purchase orders and sales orders assigned to these specific warehouses.

    I'm unable to think of a solution that avoids financial entries, as inventory transactions inherently involve valuation, especially when insurance coverage is required. To manage this effectively, you can configure all postings related to these transactions under a separate account structure and a dedicated main account range to ignore from your BS and P&L.

    Regards..

     
     
  • Mirza Mujib Ur Rahman Baig Profile Picture
    Mirza Mujib Ur Rahm... 1,443 on at
    Hi Ranjanj,
     
    Hope all is well.
     
    The second part of your response is clear. The first part is to create a separate warehouse for each customer is something will create hectic tasks for the warehouse team as we are having hundreds of customers. But even in this case, we are getting the inventory value.
     
    Lets say we dont maintain the inventory value for the insurance purpose then in this case how would be the solution. Please elaborate.
     
    Thank you again Ranjanj.
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    Ranjanj 294 on at

    Hi Mirza,

     

    In that case, you can bring the inventory in using a movement journal and sell it through a sales order with zero price. This approach won't trigger any financial postings.

    But I still recommend creating a separate logical warehouse for better control.

    If this helps, please mark it as answered.

     

     
     
     
     
     
     

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