create item variants and its production order

Finance and Operations/AX User Forum
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Dear all,
I am confusing setting item variants in AX item table, for example :
item A is a finished good
produced in the type like as follows :

  1. weight 300 gram / pieces item A
  2. weight 250 gram / pieces item A
  3. vol. 120 ml / pieces item A
  4. vol. 250 ml / peices item A

so, the item A will be produced in many type of variants but contains the same BOM/ingredients.
How to set the items in the item table ? do I have to create item A-1, item A-2, item A-3 and item A-4 ?
How the production order created because the routing will be batch flow shop and the finishing machines will be splitted after mixing operation finished ?
PrayPray
I really appreciate your answer so much. tks in advance

Rgds,
Andreas

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Hi Andreas,

Are you talking about ‘configurations’ as an item dimension when you say variants?

If so, you do not have to create items A-2, A-3, A-4 etc; you can have one item code which has a number of variants corresponding to how A-2 , A-3 & A-4 are made.

Take a look at the functionality offered at menu Inventory Managment\ Set Up\ Dimensions\ Configurations to see if it fits with you need.

Cheers,

Monty