Foreword In our last post Product Configurator – Products and their variants we gave you an overview of the variant logic in Microsoft Dynamics 365…
Foreword In our last post Product Configurator - Products and their variants we gave you an overview of the variant logic in Microsoft Dynamics 365 Finance & Operations. Further parts of the blog series follow below: Products and their variants (published on 19.01.2022) Configuring products (published on 26.01.2022) From calculation to the bill of materials (published on 02.02.2022) Fine-tuning and price calculation (published on 09.02.2022) Configuring products As you may have noticed, the T-shirt item from the previous chapter ( Introduction ) is configurable. You could also have created a dummy item for this and then specified the size and colour in the description field on the order line. But then you would also have forced the warehouse worker to look in the sales order to see exactly what they now have to pick. The product dimensions can be shown on many standard reports and views in D365 SCM, whereas description texts and notes cannot. D365 SCM offers only four different product dimensions, which limits configuration using product dimensions. Another disadvantage is that a product dimension must always have a value. For this reason, you repeatedly encounter dimension values such as «None», «Empty», «Not» or similar. This takes some getting used to and, above all, causes problems on official documents such as the order confirmation. If a product is more complex or cannot be represented with the dimensions, a product configurator can be a good alternative. The configurator in D365 SCM works like any commercially available configurator on the market. The input fields are defined, rules are set, and the configurator can create a bill of materials and a route. A product configurator is assigned to exactly one product master. Whenever the item is configured via the configurator, D365 SCM creates a new variant for the assigned product master. This approach is also referred to as «forward configuration». In contrast to configuration with product dimensions, not a