What's New: Cost Adjustment (2025 release wave 1)

Overview

The video presents four main enhancements to cost adjustment in Business Central, which the presenter describes as a key step for accurate inventory valuation. It covers handling large transaction volumes, reducing lock times, correcting wrongly adjusted items, and finding the causes of slow runs.

For high-volume items, cost adjustment can run period by period from the Inventory Cost Adjustment page. Item by item commit, forced adjustment actions, self-diagnostics warnings and a tracer that logs the adjustment process are also covered. The tracer and iterative adjustment are shown in demos.

Key points

• Iterative adjustment: on the Inventory Cost Adjustment page, select an item, choose the date until which to complete the adjustment and run adjust cost until valuation date. This allows adjustment on a period by period basis when a single run might not finish.
• Specific production and assembly orders can be adjusted by selecting them and choosing adjust cost for selected orders.
• Item by item commit reduces lock times and avoids a full rerun if one item fails. It is used by running the Adjust Cost - Item Entries report with the item by item adjustment toggle on.
• Mark for adjustment on the Item Ledger Entries page forces a rerun for inbound entries so linked outbound entries are recalculated. This helps with items marked as adjusted but carrying inaccurate costs, especially in old or highly customized environments.
• The new Item Application Entries page has a reset action that sets outbound entries to be reconsidered in the next cost adjustment.
• Self-diagnostics scan setup and cost adjustment data when the Inventory Cost Adjustment page opens, and can be run manually with the run checks action. They cannot be fully disabled but can be snoozed up to 30 days.
• The cost adjustment tracer runs on a selected batch with a timeout of up to 12 hours. It records events, processed entries, items, locations, variances, orders and cost differences into a log saved to the database. Analysis view mode is recommended because the log can be too large to read line by line.

Features

AL objects mentioned

As heard in the captions. A name that matches one object page by exact type and name links to it; the others stay as named.

• page “Inventory Cost Adjustment” at 1:27
• page 38 “Item Ledger Entries” at 2:56
• page 506 “Item Application Entries” at 2:56
• report 795 “Adjust Cost - Item Entries” at 2:17

Not found in BC28-30: page “Inventory Cost Adjustment”.

Quotes

• 0:18 “adjustment is a crucial step for ensuring accurate inventory valuation in the system and we’ve been working a lot to making it more”
• 0:35 “iterative adjustment for better control over a large volume of transactions forced adjustment to correct issues when needed a self diagnostics”
• 1:07 “for items with large amount of transaction can be challenging and the cost adjustment might might not finish in one run to make it”
• 2:12 “we’ve also introduced item by item commit which helps to reduce lock times and to prevent full reruns if one of the items fail”
• 2:36 “you might spot an item which is Market is adjusted but some of its entries carry incorrect inaccurate cost”
• 3:24 “to help you detect and uh resolve inefficiencies business Central now scans your setup and the coast adjustment data when you open the inventory”
• 4:27 “the Diagnostics happens automatically but you can manually run a scan any time using run checks action if you need a break if you”
• 4:48 “Co adjustment can sometimes take longer time than expected and the reasons for that aren’t always obvious the cost adjustment Tracer tool will help”
• 5:08 “while the course adjustment is in process it records events processed entries and the information about these entries”
• 6:06 “we introduced the inventory course adjustment tool a year ago and since then we have continued improving its perform performance and features”

Presenters (as heard): Alexa Driansky.