Dynamics 365 Business Central: Supply Chain Management - Carry subcontracting instructions into purchase orders

Business Value

Subcontractors need clear instructions about the work they must perform. Reentering that information on purchase orders takes time and can introduce differences between the routing, production order, and purchasing documents.

Details

Subcontracting comments and attachments now follow the operation into the purchase order. The purchasing document keeps the production context needed by the vendor while allowing you to review and adjust the information before sending the order.

The Subcontracting Comments action is available from standard tasks, routing lines, routing version lines, and production order routing operations. Comments follow the production flow:

Add subcontracting comments to a standard task or routing operation.

When you assign the standard task, its comments copy to the routing operation.

When you create or refresh a production order, routing comments copy to the production order routing operation.

When you create a subcontracting purchase order directly or from the Subcontracting Worksheet, the comments become descriptive purchase lines attached to the related subcontracting line.

Both Description and Description 2 flow through the process. If you chan…