From the Microsoft Dynamics 365 / AX blogs: Percentage markup; Vendor onboarding; Speed up RSSU

In this week's Microsoft Dynamics 365 / AX blog roundup:

• Add a percentage markup to inbound transaction valuation against purchase order price in Dynamics 365 for Finance & Operations
• Advanced vendor collaboration and vendor onboarding in Dynamics 365 For Finance and Operations, Enterprise edition
• D365FO - speed up retail RSSU download performance

Add a percentage markup to inbound transaction valuation against purchase order price in Dynamics 365 for Finance & Operations

On the D365Tour blog, Yohann Rolland offered a tutorial of how to immediately register the goods received with a different stock value than the purchase price applied.

The standard behavior in D365FO is to valuate the product receipt with the purchase price, meaning you receive for $10, it's valuated to $10 (or the defined standard cost), until the stock closing in run.

However, in some contexts, you might want to add indirect charges of a percentage when you receive the goods, which is OK as long as the finance team can justify it, he stated.

You could consider adding auto charges to each purchase order line, but then you'd have some issues when you invoice for control validation, Rolland stated. For example, when an invoice no longer matches an order:

No way, you will have trouble [with your] financial auditors. With internal charge? You will see the impact only in the ledger accounts and not in the physical or financial amount neither the cost price.

In his blog post, Rolland offered a quick tutorial of how to set this up using the costing sheet here. Although a costing sheet is typically used for adding direct and indirect charges on manufactured products, you can also ...