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Co-Products - how to handle in BC

Updated: Jul 14, 2022

Starting with the definition


A co-product or coproduct is produced along with with the main product and carries equal importance as the main product during the manufacturing process and can be sold or reused profitably.


Co-products are materials of value that are produced in parallel with the main desirable produced item as a result of the production process.


Some examples:

  • Sugar beet pulp and Molasses transforming Sugar beet into Sugar

  • Chicken parts (Wings, Legs, Breast) cutting chicken. Same with Pork, Cow, Fish

  • Fruit calibration separating fruit with different sizes and qualities.


This post will describe how Co-Products can be managed inside Dynamics 365 Business Central.


The first feature to consider is Production Families.


All the basics to handle Productions Bill of Materials in BC is described https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dynamics365/business-central/production-how-work-family.



This example, contains the setup for a Family after Chicken Cut. For each KG of Chicken is expected after the cutting process to "generate" 0.6 Kg of Chicken Breasts, 0.25 Kg of Chicken Legs and 0.15 Kg of Chicken Wings.


When creating a new Production Order it is possible to select Family instead of Item at header level.

After, when we hit Refresh Production Order, BC will create automatically three lines at line level following the setup of the Family.



For each Production Order Line, it has the related Routing and BOM.

This way to configure will allow almost everything you need to manage correctly the Co-Products:


  • Unique Production Order to generate in parallel more than one Items

  • Item Cost calculation will consider the cost of all components and routing operations

  • Output Journals will allow to generate the real outputs easily. The outputs will work as expected to increase to stock level.

The only missing functionality is MPS/MRP does not propose Production Orders for Co-Products as Families at Production Order level.


Try yourself.

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