We are both a manufacturer and a distributor. The parts we both make and purchase items. We also sell those items and use them in further assembly and manufacturing. We would like the ability to configure an alert, a notification, or a workflow, that would be triggered when supply becomes available for demand. Below is the overall description, as well as all our use cases.

Requirement: Leverage Business Central to automatically notify critical stakeholders, with allocation logic, that specific supply has become available to fulfill backorder demand.

• Allocation Logic = rules that assist with determining what backorder demand gets fulfilled by specify supply when there is more demand than supply.
• Specific Supply = inventory that has become available through the receipt of a purchase order OR output of a production order.
• Backorder Demand = sales orders AND production orders that are waiting for specific supply to fulfill.

Use Case: A sales order has a manufactured item that is not currently in inventory.

Backorder Demand: Sales Order

Specific Supply: Production Order

Use Case: A sales order has a purchased item that is not currently in inventory.

Backorder Demand: Sales Order

Specific Supply: Production Order

Use Case: A production order requires a manufactured item that is not currently in inventory.

Backorder Demand: Production Order

Specific Supply: Production Order

Use Case: A production order requires a purchased item that is not currently in inventory.

Backorder Demand: Production Order

Specific Supply: Purchase Order

Use Case/Alert/Notification/Workflow:

Multiple sales orders and production orders waiting on a purchased part, who gets the item(s) first?

Backorder Demand: Sales Order(s) & Production Order(s)

Specific Supply: Purchase Order

Use Case/Alert/Notification/Workflow:

Multiple sales orders and production orders waiting on a manufactured part, who gets the item(s) first?

Backorder Demand: Sales Order(s) & Production Order(s)

Specific Supply: Production Order