Contoso Coffee demo data

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Overview

Contoso Coffee demo data gives a fictitious company with sample data for trying out Business Central capabilities. The introduction page describes the data and the modules it covers: manufacturing, warehousing, service and common, plus configuration and demo data setup.

Four subtopics hold the walkthroughs. Manufacturing has 11 pages, Warehousing 4, Service 3 and Quality management 4. Each one combines sample data with scenarios you can follow step by step.

Start with the introduction page to understand the data and how it is set up. Then pick the subtopic that matches the area you want to learn.

Key points

• The introduction page describes the fictitious Contoso Coffee company data and covers demo data setup, configuration and the common module.
• Manufacturing walkthroughs cover production BOMs, routings, capacity, flushing, planning, variants and subcontracting.
• Warehousing uses three locations that show basic, mixed and advanced configurations.
• Warehousing scenarios cover receiving, put-away, picking, moving and shipping in each setup.
• Service data includes sample resources, skills, service items and loaner items.
• Service walkthroughs cover service orders and service contracts for service items.
• Quality management includes installing the demo data and three inspection scenarios.
• The quality scenarios are automatic from production output, automatic from a warehouse receipt with reinspection, and manual from purchase item tracking.

Subtopics

• Manufacturing (11 pages)
• Warehousing (4 pages)
• Service (3 pages)
• Quality management (4 pages)

More Learn pages

• Introduction to Contoso Coffee Demo Data: Overview of scenarios for how Contoso Coffee demo data can help you learn how to use the capabilities in Business Central.

Business Central pages and reports

The pages, reports and queries this hub’s Learn pages name (ms.search.form, API reference), joined to the code by exact object id (data/index/docs-objects.json); a page shows the table it runs on.

• Page 5194 “Contoso Demo Tool” · on Table 5161 “Contoso Demo Data Module”
• Page 4764 “Jobs Module Setup” · captioned “Contoso Coffee Project Demo Data” · on Table 4771 “Jobs Module Setup” · via Warehousing
• Page 4765 “Manufacturing Module Setup” · on Table 4766 “Manufacturing Module Setup” · via Manufacturing
• Page 20400 “Qlty. Management Setup” · captioned “Quality Management Setup” · on Table 20400 “Qlty. Management Setup” · via Quality management
• Page 20402 “Qlty. Inspection Template” · captioned “Quality Inspection Template” · on Table 20402 “Qlty. Inspection Template Hdr.” · via Quality management
• Page 20404 “Qlty. Inspection Template List” · captioned “Quality Inspection Templates” · on Table 20402 “Qlty. Inspection Template Hdr.” · via Quality management
• Page 20408 “Qlty. Inspection List” · captioned “Quality Inspections” · on Table 20405 “Qlty. Inspection Header” · via Quality management
• Page 20416 “Qlty. Inspection Result List” · captioned “Quality Inspection Results” · on Table 20411 “Qlty. Inspection Result” · via Quality management

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