A few fields on the Warehouse Shipment resemble a lot fields that currently exist on the Sales Order: External Document No., Shipping Agent Code, Shipping Agent Service Code.
When creating a Warehouse Shipment out of a Sales Order (Action Create Whse Shipment on Sales Header), BC should bring these 3 fields over from the Sales Order (External Document No., Shipping Agent Code, Shipping Agent Service Code).
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Admittedly, it's an anomaly that it transfers the external document no. but not the shipping agent/service. It should either do none of them or all of them so that it is consistent.
But there are users out there who do not have a one-to-one relationship between sales orders & shipments - it depends on the kind of business you are in. I know a number of instances where a warehouse shipment is a collection of deliveries that a van driver will do in one day, so there are multiple sales orders on each one for different customers. I can see where people are coming from with this request but any amendment should not restrict the one-to-many use case.
Category: Warehousing
We have had to have a Mod to do this as well, specifically as we interface to carriers and need to know which carrier to send the record too. Also when the Carrier goes to book in the shipment to the customers WH, they have to provide the external ref number to the customer, which is not carried to the shipment line record, (even though teh field is there), again another mod.
Category: Warehousing
We do this modification all the time and include also the ship agent and service.
The reason however it does not transfer over stock is that the warehouse shipment can be for multiple sales order and each could have different ship methods per past Microsoft requests.
Category: Warehousing
Additional comment:
External Document No. is successfully transferred from SO to Whse Shipment during the creation process.
The field that is missing is Shipping Method Code (as well as Shipping Agent Code and Shipping Agent Service).
Category: Warehousing
Business Central Team (administrator)
Thank you for your valuable feedback. We have decided to deliver this idea and make it available with Business Central update 19.1.