Manage Inventory

For each physical product that you trade in you must create an item card of type Inventory. Items that you offer to customers but do not keep in inventory you can register as nonstock items, which you can convert to inventory items when necessary. You can increase or decrease the quantity of an item in inventory by posting directly to the item ledger entries, for example, after a physical count or if you do not record purchases.

Inventory increases and decreases are naturally also recorded when you post purchase and sales documents respectively. For more information, see How to: Record Purchases, How to: Sell Products, and How to: Invoice Sales.

To increase your overview of items and to help you find them, you can categorize items and give them attributes to search and sort by.

Note: In Dynamics NAV, a product is referred to using the term “item”.

To See
Create item cards for inventory item that you trade in. How to: Register New Products
Increase or decrease an item’s inventory quantity, for example, after a physical count or as a simple way to record purchase receipts. How to: Adjust Inventory
Maintain an overview of items and help you find and sort items by organizing them in categories. How to: Categorize Items
Assign item attributes of different value types to your items to help you sort and find items. How to: Work with Item Attributes
Create special item cards for items that you offer to customers but do not maintain inventory for. How to: Work with Nonstock Items
Adjust item costs, either automatically or manually, to forward cost changes from inbound entries to their related outbound entries. How to: Adjust Item Costs
Reflect inventory value changes in your company books by posting inventory costs, either automatically or manually, to the related inventory accounts in the general ledger. How to: Post Inventory Costs to the General Ledger

See Also

Manage Purchasing
Manage Sales
Work With Dynamics NAV
Across Business Areas



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