Implementing Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central On-Premise - Fourth Edition

Items

In the Warehouse area, everything revolves around items. The item card contains a lot of information, but only a few fields are mandatory in order to be able to use the item on transactions: the base unit of a measure, and the fields corresponding to the posting groups.

All the other fields can be filled or unfilled depending on how you want the Warehouse area to work.

You can create multiple units of measure. You can categorize your item using the item category code and the product group code. You can indicate a shelf number for the item. You can use different costing methods, namely FIFO, LIFO, average, and standard. You can indicate how the replenishment of a product is going to be done (we have seen it in the Purchasing section ...