From release 10.0.42, you can now rename the item number in D365 SCM. We’ve heard about this requirement many times before, and now this is possible. This solves the scenarios where you might want to rename the item and avoid creating a completely new product for it in the system. Or perhaps if you made a mistake and do not want to have 'dead' items in the system.
The feature is still in preview, so be cautious when using it in a Production environment. We highly recommend performing detailed tests in your other environments first if you need to use this.
We did some testing in our Contoso environment version .42, so here is the process and some screenshots.
Test scenario
We need to find the product we want to rename, by navigating to the Product information management > Products > Released products. We find the item we want to rename and select General > Rename item number to start the process. Note that this functionality is not available for product variants at this moment.
This opens a new sub-form, with some warnings and things to consider before processing the change. Read carefully yourself, but in essence, do this renaming in the after-hours (so the temp tables are not in use) and make sure to update any queries, if you are using the specific item as a query criteria.
As you see above, processing in batch is also available. This should probably be used as the renaming will take quite some time before all the references are updated. It took me a good couple of minutes to do it in a clean Contoso environment, so I imagine this to be much longer in reality.
As the process is completed, the Operation completed message is received. The new item number is not shown in the form yet, so go ahead and refresh it. Now you will see the update.
And that’s it. All relevant points are now updated, including the on-hand inventory.
You can also see the Item number renaming log, which shows you some details about the execution process.
I will do some further testing of this feature in a customer environment with much more data behind the item as soon as I have the option to see if I encounter any issues with it.
