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shaheedfazal
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Is there an inventory item table?

Hi,

 

Just getting started and wanted to create an inventory app but can't see an inventory item table. Is this by design?

 

Thanks

 

Shaheed

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ChrisPiasecki
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Hi @shaheedfazal,

 

Dynamics 365 Field Service has out of box capabilities to manage products, warehouses and inventory via a table called Product Inventory. More information about this Field Service capability is described here

 

Otherwise, there is no standard out of box table that comes with a Dataverse environment. You would need to create a custom table to manage Inventory if not using D365 Field Service. 

 

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dpoggemann
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Hi @shaheedfazal ,

 

Other applications that will handle inventory for product and many more complex capabilities around component bill of material,  inventory stocking locations, warehouses, etc. etc. include Dynamics 365 Business Central, Dynamics 365 Supply Chain, Dynamics GP and other ERP offerings from Microsoft.  

 

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Thanks,


Drew

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ChrisPiasecki
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Hi @shaheedfazal,

 

Dynamics 365 Field Service has out of box capabilities to manage products, warehouses and inventory via a table called Product Inventory. More information about this Field Service capability is described here

 

Otherwise, there is no standard out of box table that comes with a Dataverse environment. You would need to create a custom table to manage Inventory if not using D365 Field Service. 

 

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dpoggemann
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Hi @shaheedfazal ,

 

Other applications that will handle inventory for product and many more complex capabilities around component bill of material,  inventory stocking locations, warehouses, etc. etc. include Dynamics 365 Business Central, Dynamics 365 Supply Chain, Dynamics GP and other ERP offerings from Microsoft.  

 

Hope this helps.  Please accept if answers your question or Like if helps in any way.

 

Thanks,


Drew

Hope this helps. Please accept if answers your question or Like if helps in any way.
Thanks,
Drew
shaheedfazal
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Thanks @ChrisPiasecki and @dpoggemann for your assistance. I am not sure whether to use Dataverse in that case. We may end up using Business Central a few years down the line so I am worried it will get complicated and messy migrating the data. What advantages do you think using Dataverse would have compared to using Sharepoint?

dpoggemann
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Hi @shaheedfazal ,

 

If you are working with a limited application with maybe one or two tables, you have limited needs from a security perspective and you are concerned about cost then SharePoint might be a good solution for the short term.  Most of the applications I build are "model-based" applications that will utilize a number of core features of the dataverse including:

1.  Business Rules

2.  Process Flows

3.  Role / Field level security

 

and more and the Dataverse provides this out-of-the-box for me.  The Dataverse has a number of great capabilities but depends on your needs.   Microsoft provided a comparison here as well on some of the items:  https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powerapps/teams/compare-data-sources 

 

Hope this helps.  

 

Thanks much,


Drew

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