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PO receiving and Product Variants

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Hello! 
 
Is anyone aware of a solution for the following:
 
Our subsidiary purchases vegetables from a broker daily. However, the agreement between the subsidiary and the broker is that they will send all types of the requested vegetable when available, regardless of the variant. This means that the procurement team does not know what they will be receiving until the truck arrives. The procurement team's current process in NAV calls for them to create a PO, with a product master, which gets overwritten when the scale house receives the items.
 
The issue here that we face is that we can schedule an appointment for the truck load to be delivered, but as of now, we cannot create a PO with a product master;  we have to specify the variant at the time that the PO is created - which is before we know what the variant(s) will be. This complicates the receiving process as we are using advanced warehouse and we need to be able to register and receive against the PO lines - which were not created correctly, or at all, since we do not know the variants and the weight that will be received.
 
Thank you for your time!
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    saurabh bharti Profile Picture
    15,033 Super User 2025 Season 1 on at
    PO receiving and Product Variants
    Hi,
     
    I am not that close to your process but few questions here:
     
    1. Vegetables are mostly for immidiate consumption and will be expensed in short period , so why you are storing them in inventory? 
     
    2. Is it possible that you just create PO agaisnt the vegetable procurement category and make process easy ?
     
    3. If its is has to be stored in inventory , isn't this possible to be record using normal product rather than product master?
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    Kevin Xia Profile Picture
    Microsoft Employee on at
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    Hi,
    You can refer to this official document: Create predefined product variants - Supply Chain Management | Dynamics 365 | Microsoft LearnThis article provides an example scenario that shows how to create predefined product variants for a product master. It also describes how to work with improved variant suggestions and how to assign variant-specific item sales tax groups if needed. You can define product master data with multiple variants (for example, different types of vegetables) under a single product master. When creating a PO, you can select the product master, which is the product that represents all variants, instead of specifying a specific variant. For example, vegetables is the product, add an attribute called category on the product. The enumeration of this field can be carrots, potatoes and so on.
    Best regards,
    Kevin

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