New inventory dimensions for product version tracking and enhanced extensibility
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| Enabled for | Public preview | General availability |
|---|---|---|
| Users by admins, makers, or analysts | 
Aug 3, 2020 |
Oct 1, 2020 |
Business value
Version is a product dimension that helps companies maintain and track multiple versions of a product throughout the supply chain, while the new generic dimensions provide increased flexibility for extending the capabilities of the application to fit individual business needs.
Feature details
This feature introduces a new standard inventory dimension (version) and two new generic inventory dimensions (InventDimension11 and InventDimension12).
New product dimension: Version
Version is a product dimension that is intended to help you maintain and track multiple versions of a product throughout the supply chain. Version tracking is essential to the success of manufacturers operating in a world of constantly shrinking product lifecycles, increased quality and reliability requirements, and increased focus on product safety.
As a standard product dimension, version will behave similarly to the existing product dimensions of size, style, color, and configuration, which means you could also choose to use it for purposes other than tracking product versions.
Microsoft Dynamics 365 Commerce functionality: After it's turned on, the version dimension will appear throughout the Commerce-specific code in Dynamics 365 Supply Chain Management. However, the version dimension isn't yet supported by the Commerce channel database or in the point of sale (POS) or e-commerce applications. These Commerce-specific applications won't support users selling/shipping or returning/receiving inventory by version dimension. Inventory availability lookup functions won't discern inventory by version dimension in Commerce apps. This behavior resembles the current behavior of the config dimension throughout Commerce.
Two new generic dimensions: InventDimension11 and InventDimension12
The two new generic, string-based inventory dimensions increase the number of generic inventory dimensions from 10 to 12. This gives even more flexibility for partners and ISVs to enhance the standard application capabilities through extensions.
See also
Product dimensions (docs)
Configure inventory dimensions (learn)