Automating Business Central Inventory Counts by Describing the Goal to Claude

A developer describes the tedious annual physical inventory process in Microsoft Business Central, where hundreds of journals must be prepared one by one. The article argues that the routine can be eliminated in two days by first agreeing on the underlying rules and only then asking for code. The proposed approach groups journal batches by rack and replaces manual calculation with a single action across selected batches. Early attempts ran into obstacles, including leftover empty lines from the previous inventory and duplicate lines created by repeated calculations. The author resolves these by adding checks and prompts that ask the user how to proceed.