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Release Notes 24.4.11400.0 | August 8, 2024

Requirements

  • Business Central version 24.4 or higher

Enhancements

Inventory Restrictions Journal

ID: 8703

The Inventory Restrictions Journal page was added, which allows you to do the following:

  • Find bin content
  • Find expiring inventory
  • Add or remove restrictions from tracked items.

To set up inventory restrictions journal

To use the inventory restrictions journal

Changes

Page Changes
Inventory Restriction Journal Templates
  • New page. Create the journal template on which the inventory restriction journal batches will be based.
Inventory Restriction Journal Batches
  • New page. Create the journal batches used by the Inventory Restriction Journals page.
Inventory Restriction Journals
  • New page. Add or remove restrictions from tracked items.
Inventory Restriction Registers
  • New page. Groups inventory restriction entries by date created.
Inventory Restriction Worksheet
  • Register: Changed action. The action was changed to use the new posting routine used on the Inventory Restriction Journals page.
Auto Restrictions (Receipt and Output) | Bin Restrictions
  • Changed functions. The functions were changed to use the new posting routine used on the Inventory Restriction Journals page.
Inventory Restriction Entries

The page was previously named Inventory Restriction Log Entries.

  • Comment: Changed field. You can now edit the field. 
  • Reason Code: New field. Reason for the restriction. This code is another way to trace the entry.

Restrict Nearly Expired Inventory

ID: 8843

You can now see when inventory is nearing its expiry date and add a restriction code to it.

Set the expiry controls from the Inventory Restrictions Setup page and run the Apply Expiration Warning Restrictions task to automatically apply the restriction code to inventory that is set to expire.

To be able to add restrictions, the Add Restrictions (Manually) checkbox must be selected for your user ID on the User Setup page.

Alternatively, you can restrict nearly expired inventory from the new Inventory Restriction Journals page.

To set up restrictions for nearly expired inventory

To apply restrictions to nearly expired inventory

Changes

Page Changes
Inventory Restrictions Setup
  • Expiration Warning: New field. Date calculation to alert users that inventory is about to expire.
    The value must be a positive date. For example, enter 15D to be alerted when inventory is going to expire within the next 15 days. You can see the expiring inventory on the Lot No. Information Card page.
  • Expiration Warning Restriction Code: New field. Inventory restriction code that will be applied to inventory lots that are about to expire. The NICIRA Invt Rest Jnl-Post (23093870) job queue can be set up to automatically apply the restriction code to inventory that is set to expire.
Lot No. Information List | Lot No. Information Card
  • Expiring Inventory: New field. Amount of inventory that is nearing its expiry date. The formula used to calculate if an item is nearing its expiry date is set in the Expiration Warning field on the Inventory Restrictions Setup page.
    The field is hidden by default on the Lot No. Information List page.
Apply Expiration Warning Restrictions
  • New page. Applies the code in the Expiration Warning Restriction Code field on the Inventory Restrictions Setup page to the inventory that is nearing expiry based on the value in the Expiration Warning field. The code will be added to any codes already associated with the inventory.

View Restricted Inventory Quantities

ID: 8846

You can now see how much of an item's inventory is restricted from the new Restricted Inventory field on the following pages:

  • Lot No. List
  • Item Availability Lines
  • Item Availability by Location
  • Item Availability by Lot No.
  • Item Availability by Periods
  • Item Availability by UOM
  • Item Availability by Variant

Changes

Page Changes
Lot No. List | Item Availability Lines | Item Availability by Location | Item Availability by Lot No. | Item Availability by Periods | Item Availability by UOM | Item Availability by Variant
  • Restricted Inventory: New field. Amount of the item that is currently restricted in inventory.

Fixes

The following issue was fixed:

ID Description
10563 On the Inventory Restrictions Code page, you could create a record that had a blank code.