The Inventory Count Module has the ability to calculate NAV Physical Inventory Counting Period Codes based on each item’s percentage of the overall cost for outbound transactions.

Learn about the bin blocking options when using Advanced Inventory Count.

This report is used to validate count sheets before and after the count.

The Warehouse Insight Module is an Insight Works product that allows you to perform inventory counts using handheld devices. The biggest change when using the Warehouse Insight is that no printed inventory count sheets are required, though they could be used.

The steps involved in completing cycle or partial counts are the same steps used for a full count. However, additional filtering criteria on the count lines may be used to specify particular groups of items, and additional options on the Generate Count Sheets function can be used.

The Physical Inventory Count Module can be used to perform cycle or partial counts, WIP counts, or full inventory counts. The primary difference is that for full counts, you must be sure to run the Items Not Counted report and review all items that do not appear on count sheets, both before and after the count.

This article describes five main areas of Count Module.

The Inventory Count Module for Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central by Insight Works allows Inventory Managers to easily manage complete or partial physical inventory and WIP inventory counts.

Advanced Inventory Count requires the completion of the Setup Wizard. To access this Wizard, navigate to Assisted Setup and click on Inventory Count.

After choosing “Free Trial” in AppSource, the Advanced Inventory Count extension will be installed in Dynamics 365 Business Central.

Use “Copy Count to Journals” to copy variances to the standard NAV journals.

Creating a Master Count Sheet can provides a baseline to compare the count against.

Recounts can be generated automatically based on a pre-defined threshold for variants or you can select random items to recount.

Once the counts are completed and all recounts have been completed, the counts can then be posted to NAV. To post the counts first the “Posting Options” must be set on the “Count Card”.

There are several possible ways to configure item tracking in NAV. Depending on the configuration used the lot/serial numbers are handled differently by NAV and the Count Module.

One of the key tools we have in the count module is the Inventory As-of-Date. Unlike in standard NAV we don’t freeze the inventory when generating the count sheets.

Counts are organized by the Inventory Count Card.