Non stock Item on Nav 5.00

NELLIO

Hello,

One of my customer want to manage on Navision non stock items ...
A non stock item have the same properties as a standard item ( Order, Shipment, Invoice ) but there's no ledger of quantity in wharehouse ( no input or output of quantity ) !!!

How can i do that ? Can i do that with "resources" with the same fonctionnalities ?

Thanks

mart1n0

Have a look at the Swiss version, they have a property "No Stockkeeping" on the item card that does exactly what you want.

You can have a look at the code behind it, I do not know which other countries have this field too.

This is what the help says about it:
No Stockkeeping Field
The Item Table
This option on an item card causes no item ledger entry to be generated when that item is posted.

kine

You can use the resources if you need to just sell it. If you need to purchase, you can use combination of G/L Account and Resource. Or you can use the standard "Nonstock Items" functionality.

NELLIO

Standard "NonStock Items" is to manage "Vendor catalog" in Nav to not have a lots of items in Nav without sales them.
And when you sale a "NonStock Items" you automatically create an Item with its fonctionnality : Output Ledger in wharehouse and i don't want that .... so i am going to make tests with resources !!

Thanks

kine

Ah, ok, thanks. We never used the nonstock items, it is why I have "wrong imagination" how it works. Than yes, resources are best...

mart1n0

"No Stockkeeping" checkbox on the item card that does exactly what you think "NonStock Items" do.

If you really need something that does not post item ledger entries, only values and where there is no stock (it will always appear as 0), this is what you need.

You can just look at how it is done in Switzerland (and maybe also in Germany) with default code and copy the functionality.

tameemabdullah

Hi there,

I am looking for something very similar to what you are describing with non-stock items and would like to get a copy of the Swiss or German Navision database, where can i download them from?

mart1n0

Actually, I found out the German version does not have it, only the Swiss does.

You can download it from PartnerSource and if you have ftp access to MiBuSo I guess you can download it here to.

Just grab a swiss Cronus.

David_Singleton

NELLIO wrote:

Hello,

One of my customer want to manage on Navision non stock items ...
A non stock item have the same properties as a standard item ( Order, Shipment, Invoice ) but there's no ledger of quantity in wharehouse ( no input or output of quantity ) !!!

How can i do that ? Can i do that with "resources" with the same fonctionnalities ?

Thanks

Yes this is standard Navision functionality, Group Items. These generate Group Item entries that are basically like Item Ledger entries, but have no Quantities they just are used to track costs etc. (imagine a value ledger entry with no Item Ledger Entry. :whistle:



BUT no, unfortunately this great standard NAV feature was removed from standard functionality back in Navision Financials 1.1. Actually much of the code was still there in 1.1 as were the tables and fields, but by 1.3 it had been virtually removed.

ara3n

David Singleton wrote:

NELLIO wrote:

Hello,

One of my customer want to manage on Navision non stock items ...
A non stock item have the same properties as a standard item ( Order, Shipment, Invoice ) but there's no ledger of quantity in wharehouse ( no input or output of quantity ) !!!

How can i do that ? Can i do that with "resources" with the same fonctionnalities ?

Thanks

Yes this is standard Navision functionality, Group Items. These generate Group Item entries that are basically like Item Ledger entries, but have no Quantities they just are used to track costs etc. (imagine a value ledger entry with no Item Ledger Entry. :whistle:



BUT no, unfortunately this great standard NAV feature was removed from standard functionality back in Navision Financials 1.1. Actually much of the code was still there in 1.1 as were the tables and fields, but by 1.3 it had been virtually removed.

This would be a nice feature for Manufacturing, where you have all these small items that are used and also sold and purchased. You could use resource for selling and purchasing, but for Manufacturing you can't use resource.

David_Singleton

I just don't understand why they removed this.

NavUsr

ara3n wrote:

This would be a nice feature for Manufacturing, where you have all these small items that are used and also sold and purchased. You could use resource for selling and purchasing, but for Manufacturing you can't use resource.

I would appreciate hearing what companies do to manage these small items for manufacturing in Nav. We have small items that are more like comsumables that we need to have listed in BOM components but we don't want to track them in inventory. We currently have these items set up as inventory items but are finding them difficult to manage.

ajhvdb

We do it now by using a different location code 'NONSTOCK' for items where quantity in not important.

I was thinking of implementing something simular. An option on the item card decides if the stock quantity always becomes zero (item ledger entry). Can this work or will the WIP or other process/report stop working?