Enabling consumption of amount fully or partially in case of service items in purchase order lines.Some customers are requesting to have the option of entering amount without quantity in the purchase order lines, and have the possibility to receive amount and invoice amount fully or partially. in the current 365 for finance and operations functionalities, the only way to implement the customer requirements is to use the quantity field as amount with unit price factor equal 1, which creates conflicts to the users since the same field will be used as amount in case of service item and as quantity in case of inventory items.
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It would be a great benefit to our organization if we had the ability to create a true "service-line" purchase order line (line amount only, no quantity and/or unit cost). This is a common feature available in most procurement systems and the current work around in D365 is not ideal as it is confusing to both internal users and our vendors. For reference, the work around is using the quantity field as the amount and setting the unit cost to $1 (ex. 50,000 quantity at $1 unit cost = $50,000).
This work around is used to ensure that a purchase order line may be invoiced multiple times, as opposed to only allowing one invoice if the quantity was set to one. As an example, we may contract for a particular amount (ex. $50,000); however, payment is subject to the statement of work and we may not know how many invoices will be needed for that particular service (hence, unable to define the quantity at the start). A service-line purchase order line would eliminate this issue, eliminate the confusing work around and also improve reporting (as the current work around would not be an accurate representation of quantity ordered).
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Category: Procurement and Sourcing
Administrator on 10/2/2020 1:13:05 PM
Thank you for your feedback. Currently this is not in our roadmap; however, we are tracking it and if we get more feedback and votes, we may consider it in the future.