Reconciling inventory to the general ledger

Reconciliation of inventory to your general ledger inventory accounts can be a headache during your month end if you are not familiar with the strategies and resources available to you in D365 for finance and operations (F&O). If the process itself is not holding things up, varying and unidentified reasons for differences can cause anxiety. The good news is, no matter what you circumstances are, inventory costs can be reconciled to the general ledger in D365 F&O.  Proper attention to detail and process in D365 F&O will ensure that this potentially painful task will become a smooth and simple routine. As long as inventory reconciles month to month, there are no worries. But what happens when something does get out of balances? What tools can you use to evaluate the cause of this? What are the common types of issues companies run into? And what can you do to fix these issues?  

In this presentation I will not only go through the basic reports that are used to reconcile inventory to the GL, but I will also dig into the details of some common and confusing causes for mismatches in a discrete manufacturing environment. This means exploring what specific transactions can cause issues and how to use D365 to pin these down and correct them. It also means demonstrating what your inventory balance actually means based on how D365 works in different situations. This way you can differentiate between things that actually might cause inconsistencies vs temporary differences and also minimize those temporary differences.