[Joel Shields]

In Dynamics BC does anyone have experience using Non-Inventory items to transact (sales orders and purchase orders)? Specifically for drop shipment orders. 

Best,
Joel 

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Joel Shields
Millennium Packaging
South Elgin IL
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[Ben Baxter]

Are you talking about Non-Stock Items?  If so, think of that like a Vendor’s Catalog.  It is available to buy/sell, but you haven’t setup the Item Card yet.  When you have a need you can create an actual Item Card from the Non-Stock Item.

Or are you talking about Item’s setup with “Service” as the type?  Which is Microsoft attempting to replace Resources.

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Ben Baxter
Consultant
Accent Software, Inc.
Carmel IN
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[Kevin Fons]

Ben, Non-Inventory Items were added in a recent 2018 / BC verison.
They act similar to Service items however they can be used in bills of materials and other places service items were not used.
I have tested them on purchase and sales order but not on drop ship orders.  I am not sure if they will work as a drop ship actually goes into inventory then is shipped on the sales order.  The non-inventory items do not technically go into inventory but since they work on both sales orders and purchase orders it may work.  

Have you tried it in a test database?
Why are you using a non-inventory item vs a regular inventory item?

Kevin

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Kevin Fons
Senior Application Consultant
Innovia Consulting
Windsor WI
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[Joel Shields]

We set up the item card and are referring to Non-Inventory as an item type which we understand is a newer functionality in BC. 

We have been testing drop shipments in our sandbox environment with non-inventory (item type). The SOs and POs function as a typical drop-shipment and can be posted. However, the issue we encounter is the statistics and profitability when using drop-shipments the adjusted statistics no longer reflect the item costs and item charges (if applicable) once the PO is posted.

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Joel Shields
Millennium Packaging
South Elgin IL
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[Ken Sebahar]

You can only drop ship a “Inventory” type Item.

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Ken Sebahar
Vice President – Operations
Solution Systems, Inc.
Rolling Meadows IL
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