Discontinued Items
The discontinued item functionality provides the ability of steering the removal of old items/assembly units and their replacement by new components. Standard functionality in Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central regulates the trigger of new items in manufacturing using a validity date in the production BOM. COSMO Discrete Manufacturing offers an alternative method of handling discontinued items since a concrete date is not used (because of the depletion of remainder of stock, deadline shift, and so on). Additionally, a warning message will open when a discontinued item is added to various documents and standard service codes.
Setup
On the Item Card, a discontinued item is defined by the Discontinued Items, Replacement possible from, and Substitutes Exist fields on the Config. to Order FastTab. First, one or more replacement items must be assigned via Item Substitutions and then the Discontinued Items toggle can be turned on.
When the toggle is turned on, the Item Find Entries page opens. This page is comparable to the standard Find entries page except this page searches for the discontinued item in all COSMO Discrete Manufacturing tables, which allows you to open the records to make changes as needed.
The last step is to enter a starting date in the Replacement possible from field to indicate from when this item is to be considered as discontinued.
Note
The Replacement possible from date is checked against the work date, not the document date.
Discontinued Items in Documents
When a discontinued item is manually entered in a document, a message will open to warn the user that item is discontinued. You can choose to use the discontinued item by choosing the Yes button or discard the entry by choosing the No button.
For documents with a line-related FactBox that shows item substitutions, you can choose the Yes button to add the discontinued item and then in the FactBox, choose the value in the Substitutions field to open the Item Substitution Entries page, and then select a replacement for the discontinued item.
The documents in which the message is shown are:
- Sales Quote
- Sales Order
- Purchase Quote
- Purchase Order
- Service Quote
- Service Order
- Master BOM
- Document BOM
- Construction Order
- Construction Inquiry
- Production BOM/Production BOM Version
Discontinued Items in Standard Service Codes
If a discontinued item is entered in the Standard Service Code Card, the warning message will open to confirm that the item should be used.
If a service item is used in a sales document and the Standard Service Code is used to populate the lines, the warning message will open for each discontinued item. This means that you will need to confirm or deny the addition of each discontinued item in the Standard Service Code.
Discontinued Items in Production Orders
If a discontinued item is used as a component in a production order, the Discontinued Components page opens when the production order status is changed to Released.
The Discontinued Components page displays all components on the production order that are defined as discontinued items. Further information about the component is available on the different menu buttons, such as item availability. This allows you to check the inventory status of the discontinued item and the substitute item and then decide if you want to replace the discontinued item.
To replace a discontinued item with a substitution, choose Line > Select Item Substitution on the Related menu. A list of the assigned substitutes for the item opens. Select an item and choose the OK button to confirm the change and return to the Discontinued Components page. By choosing the OK button, the status change is carried out and the discontinued item is exchanged by the substitute.
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