Dynamics 365 Business Central: Supply Chain Management - Set up and explore subcontracting more easily

Business Value

Subcontracting requires coordinated setup across work centers, vendors, locations, prices, and production BOMs. A guided starting point and actionable warnings help administrators find the required setup and correct missing information before it interrupts production work.

Details

Clearer demonstration data also makes it easier to evaluate intermediate and final subcontracting operations and compare more than one subcontractor.

The Subcontracting Setup assisted setup guide, available after the Subcontracting app is installed, organizes initial configuration into three steps:

Review an introduction to subcontracting.

Review company defaults such as the worksheet template and batch, production-order information lines, component costs, and transfer lead time.

Open the related pages to set up work centers, vendors, locations, subcontractor prices, component supply methods, and supporting documentation.

Additional improvements make setup and discovery clearer:

From the Work Center Card , open Subcontractor Prices , Subcontracting WIP Entries , and Subcontractor - Dispatch List for configured subcontractor work centers.

From routing lines and production order pages, revie…