Hey there, I am new to Dynamics Finance and Operations (or Supply chain management as I hear it's been renamed).
I am trying to help my company figure out how to manage assets, and we were thinking of using Asset and Inventory Management. However I haven't been able to figure out a way to link the two entities in Dynamics Finance and Operations.
Here's roughly what we envisioned:
Asset Types - Define the type of asset (Vehicle, laptop, door etc). Each record is unique.
Asset - Defines the specific asset, using the Vehicle Asset Type as an example this would be something like a Truck, or a Sedan, or a Sportscar, or even a Boat. Each record is unique.
Inventory - This would be a specific instance of each Asset. So if the Asset is a Truck (Asset type Vehicle), 3 separate instances could represent 3 different trucks at 3 different facilities.
Like I said before, I have been unable to link the two entities. I found the following article from dynaway/microsoft blogs (Microsoft acquired EAM from them in 2018 and Asset Management shipped in October of 2019) but other than this I have found little to no documentation. The article mentions specifically this feature was dropped.
Dynaway article on removed functionality:
https://www.dynaway.com/blog/asset-management-on-microsoft-dynamics#comments-listing
Microsoft Blog:
https://cloudblogs.microsoft.com/dynamics365/bdm/2018/11/13/enterprise-asset-management-in-dynamics-365-for-finance-and-operations/
Does anyone know a way to link the two entities? Because Asset management seems pretty useless if we can't link Assets to inventory. Unless I am thinking about this the wrong way...
