When creating a sales order with “Autocreate intercompany orders” and “Direct delivery” = “Yes”, the Intercompany Sales order will be created after clicking on the Refresh-Button. The user needs to jump manually in the intercompany sales order to use the functionality “Confirmed delivery dates” and has to change additionally the toggles in the parameters in order to get the right delivery dates calculated and to get them updated from the intercompany sales order to the original sales order. Then the user can jump back into the original sales order to confirm the sales order to the end-customer with the calculated dates.
This are many manual steps to do and also error-prone as the user has to select always the right toggles in the parameters of the “confirmed delivery dates”.
Generally in the original sales order there is the possibility to see the intercompany on-hand of the item in the sales order line. (sales order lines menu item / Inventory / Intercompany / On-hand).
Would be great if the calculation of delivery dates (e.g. ATP + issue margin) in the original sales order (when using intercompany) considers the on-hand of the intercompany legal entity.
Then you would see directly/automatically if an item is on stock or not without doing several manual steps.
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This is also a thing, we implemented several times for our customers in the past.
Good idea to have it in standard D365FO
Category: Planning
Good point! We also have to handle the same problem as described by you day by day.
Intercompany direct deliveries are a great tool to handle our international sales structure, but it is still a very manual process.
With growing business and internationalization the automatisation of the process is needed - but as long as we have that cut in the process, where the manual work to get the realistic delivery dates is needed, I see a big issue here.
Category: Planning
I totally agree that this would ease the intercompany direct delivery process and I think if this kind of an "automatic IC-Sales order delivery date determination/confirmation" could be controlled by a new parameter on the intercompany setup form we would be able to control for which IC-relation we want to use it or not!
Especially I also think about scenarios where original sales orders come in via interfaces like EDI or Commerce and where we do not have human interaction at all, that can jump to the IC-sales order, determine the proper delivery date and set the confirmed delivery dates!
Thank you very much!
Category: Planning
Great Idea! It currently makes no sense that the stock levels are not synchronized in an integrated system........
Category: Planning