full-feature-overview-for-configurable-products

A generic bill of materials can be connected to each Master and include materials, sub-assemblies, operations, machine setup, routing, time, and overhead. The structure can contain as many levels as required, providing a reusable foundation for every configuration of the product.


Formulas and search tables determine how the customer's configuration affects the final BOM. They can select components, calculate quantities and measurements, inherit variant values between products and components, or perform more advanced configuration calculations. This removes the need to manually create and maintain a separate BOM for every possible combination.


A Temporary BOM can apply a configuration to the generic Master BOM and calculate the resulting product structure before a permanent item or production BOM is created. This makes it possible to test configuration rules and, in some scenarios, produce or assemble an item without maintaining individual BOMs for every configuration.


Cost calculation follows the complete BOM structure and can include purchased materials, operations, machine setup, labour, transport, duty, insurance, and overhead. The resulting cost provides a reliable basis for quotations, contribution margins, sales prices, and comparison with the actual cost after production.

Sales teams can configure customer-specific products directly on a quotation or sales order. The configurator guides the user through the available options, applies the product rules, calculates the resulting price, and ensures that only feasible products are offered to the customer.


Available quantity can be calculated from inventory, sales orders, purchase orders, assembly orders, and production orders. The calculation can look beyond the finished product and evaluate sub-assemblies, raw materials, incoming supply, and production capacity, helping users provide customers with more reliable availability and delivery information.


Prices and discounts can range from general price lists to customer-specific conditions for individual configuration options. TRIMIT also supports price periods, campaigns, dependent price lists, combined discounts, cross-company pricing, framework agreements through blanket orders, and commissions for multiple salespeople.


Workflow templates can be attached to sales documents to ensure that important activities are completed, while confirmations, shipments, invoices, credit memos, reminders, and other documents can be distributed using predefined e-mail templates.

TRIMIT manufacturing is designed for configured items and discrete manufacturing, from comparatively simple products to complex, multilevel structures. It supports both internal manufacturing and outsourced production, as well as make-to-stock, make-to-order, or a combination of the two.


The production order contains the calculated product structure for the specific configuration, including components, sub-assemblies, operations, machine setup, time, and overhead. Consumption of materials and time can be posted automatically or manually, and the final result can be compared with the original pre-calculation.


Work centres hold capacity and can be identified as bottlenecks, enabling warnings when the available capacity for a period is fully utilised. Workflow templates provide an overview of the activities associated with the production order and help teams follow the product through each stage of manufacturing.


For outsourced manufacturing, transfer orders can be created for materials and semi-finished products sent to the manufacturer and for finished products returning to the company.

TRIMIT supports allocation and pick suggestions based on current inventory, customer priorities, shipment requirements, and other selected parameters. Users can review and adjust the proposed allocation before it is converted into warehouse picks.


Container Management provides an overview of inbound shipments from suppliers, outbound shipments to customers, and transfers between company locations. Sales lines, purchase lines, transfer lines, and warehouse pick documents can be connected to a container, giving users visibility into the container's content, deadlines, shipping dates, receiving dates, and quantities.


Changing a shipment or receipt date on the container can update the connected order lines, while posting the container can have the same effect as posting the corresponding shipment or receipt. The functionality can also be used for smaller shipment units, such as pallets or boxes, when detailed control is required.

TRIMIT builds on the financial management functionality in Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central, connecting sales, purchasing, inventory, production, projects, and general ledger data in one solution.


Cost calculations can include materials, labour, machine setup, operations, overhead, transport, duty, insurance, and other item charges. Pre-calculated costs can be compared with actual posted consumption and production results, providing visibility into the profitability of individual configurations and customer orders.


The solution also supports budgeting, cash flow management, fixed assets, bank account management, intercompany processes, multiple companies, local financial requirements, and role-based access to the financial information relevant to each user.

TRIMIT is embedded in Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central rather than operating as a separate configuration or production system. The same solution handles finance, sales, purchasing, inventory, product configuration, manufacturing, logistics, and e-commerce integration.


This means that a configuration entered during a quotation or sales order can become the foundation for pricing, item creation, purchasing, demand planning, production, delivery, invoicing, reporting, and after-sales service — without recreating the product definition in separate applications.


Companies retain access to the Microsoft platform, security model, integrations, development tools, and cloud services while adding the product structure and process support needed to manage configurable products.