Stocked Product check box from Item Model Group in Axapta 2012

Hi Folks,

Every one of us know about why we use the Stocked Product check box in the Item Model Group form.

There is a new usage that we can look at this functionality,

Example for demonstration:

Furniture company is offering a paid  maintenance service at customer door step along with the spare parts.

In the above example we have two types of items

• Service item (non- stocked item)
• spare parts (stocked item)

In the final Solution, Furniture company has to bill the customers which includes Service cost Spare parts cost.

Generally Service items can be defined (Setup) with Cost price and Sales price but in the above example we can understand that we Furniture company is offering BOM item which includes spare parts and service items. In Axapta 2012, while calculating the BOM, we can include the service item cost price.

Axapta setup for BOM calculation for Service Item 

Scenario 1: 

If Stocked product = False is recommended – when the product costs are expensed directly in the Service order...

Scenario 2: 

If Stocked product = True is recommended – when the product costs will be included in BOM structure...

Few more Glimpses on this feature are:

A) From Master planning perspective, the non-stocked service product cannot be part of a bill of material. Demand from a higher level bill of material item cannot create drive demand towards a non-stocked product

B) From product costing perspective, the non-stocked service product cannot be part of a bill of material and cannot contribute to the direct cost of a finished goods

Note: For a service item to support subcontracting and be included in master planning, the service item has to be setup as stocked.

Thanks for reading folks....

Kindly revert back to me if you have any concerns on my article...

Thanks,

Naveen. B