Shipping a sample without cost

jjjunior

Hi all,

I have an item in the system with 500 units valued using the average method.

One of our accountants wants to ship 10 units of this item as a sample to a customer but he does not want that NAV takes any cost from the inventory that is, the idea would be to have the item ledger entry generated by this shipment with zero at the cost amount field or even do not have an item ledger entry at all.

Has anybody ever heard of a way to make that possible in NAV? The version is NAV 2009 US SP1

Any help is appreciated!!!! Thanks!!!!

jglathe

Hi jjjunior,

I wouldn't say "not possible"... This would actually increase the unit cost of the remaining 490 units. And Adjust Cost Item Entries would always try to rectify this, meaning that your sample shipment will get the cost, even if you post with zero cost in the beginning.
In reality, you actually do have a cost for these samples. How about simply posting them with a different posting setup, where the "direct cost applied" account would be something appropriate?

with best regards

Jens

jjjunior

Hello Jens,

Thank you very much for your answer!!

This is what we have been doing so far but as our industry has this practice of sending samples without considering their cost and then sell the remaining units with the total original cost of the item, we were trying to find out if NAV had any option for handling such situations. We will probably just keep the regular process though.

I will share here if we find anything special for this.

JJ

mdPartnerNL

you could create a report (with the shipment of 10) without posting the shipment.