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Hi,

Trust you are well.

We are currently using Dynamics NAV 2013 R2 and were looking at the possibility of operationalizing NAV's internal planning functionality to guide our manufacturing plans, which is currently a manual spreadsheet driven process.

We have been deploying multiple subcontractors for the same manufacturing process (perfect substitutes). Each subcontractor is configured in a different location (stores team uses location to track material movement). As a result the same item will exist at multiple locations because production can choose to assign the same item to any sub-contractor. Is there a way to set-up item SKUs so that the planning module will aggregate stock at various locations before suggesting supply lines.

Deployed configuration isnt allowing us to create more than 1 SKU per item per location. So the planning module will ignore stock at all other locations not mentioned in the SKU.

Thanks.

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Jun Wang 7,454 Super User 2024 Season 2 on at

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it seems you are not using location for subcontractor in item planning correctly. subcontractor is only used for production order handling, not for item planning.
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YUN ZHU 74,148 Super User 2024 Season 2 on at

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As far as I know, the same item will exist at multiple locations cannot be done in the standard system. You can create a general location and handle this inventory within it. You can also use Bin or Zone for further management.

Hope this can give you some hints.

Thanks.

ZHU