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2013-11-18 · 2013

Weekly Dynamic: Inventory Reason Codes

Tips & Hidden FeaturesSales, Purchasing & InventoryGP 2013

Archived post from 2013. Dynamics GP and the links it points to have changed since; check current documentation before relying on version-specific steps.

GP 2013 added reason codes to inventory transactions. Frankly, it think is a really nice feature for helping companies understand why their inventory is moving around. If people are making manual adjustments to inventory, reason codes will let you aggregate that data via SmartLists or Excel reports. This can lead to insights into process improvements or policy changes designed to improve inventory control.

If you’re making a lot of inventory adjustments, you need to add reason codes to those adjustments.