Non Stock Items

AJS

Hi All,

Can someone please shed some light , the use of Non-Stock Items?
Whenever I try to use it in the SO/PO it becomes a normal item?

Please help.

Thanks.
AJS

HalMdy

Yes, an Item is created each time you use the non-stock item on a Sales Order.

For more details, see the online help :

The Nonstock Item table contains information about items that your company sells but does not carry in inventory. You would usually handle the sale of a nonstock item in one of two ways:

Drop Shipment
The item is shipped from the vendor directly to the customer. You buy and sell the item but do not handle, stock or deliver it.

Special Order
You purchase a nonstock item from the vendor especially for a customer, receive it at your warehouse and ship it to the customer, either by itself or in combination with other items on the sales order.


To register information in the Nonstock Item table, you fill out a card for each nonstock item with basic information such as name, unit of measure and unit price. You can enter this information manually or import it into the table using a dataport.

When a nonstock item is entered on a sales line for the first time, the program uses the information contained in the Nonstock Item table to generate an item card, to add a record to the item vendor catalogue, and to generate an item cross reference, (if the cross-reference information has been registered).

When you create an item card in this manner, the program creates the item number according to the rules defined in the Nonstock Item Setup table.

AJS

Thanks for your reply

Yes, that's exactly the confusion.

That if the item will be created each time I use the Non-Stock item then what is the use of Non-Stock item functionality?

Kowa

There are a number of reasons to handle it this way :

Some branches of trade have item catalogs that sum up to millions of records. If you import every available item in the item table you get longer search times as well as the problem that the prices for all these items have to be kept up to date.

It is no problem to replace old catalog data in a separate table ( and e.g.mark the item in the item table that the vendor has deleted it)

Also, if you get the item from the non-stock table you at least know that the price may be out of date and has to be checked.

Shenpen

If you want to use "really nonstock" (items without Inventory), use Resources.

I think the name "nonstock" is hugely misguiding, in Hungarian they are translated as Catalogue Items, which is much more appropriate.