Lead time by Vendor

I have had this requirement multiple times, mainly in distribution. A vendor would have a "quoted lead time" he guarantee us, so entering the same lead time on each product is a bit repetitive. Only few "special order" items would have a different lead time.

Lead time on the Vendor card and/or Item card would be really useful.

Vendor Items would be helpful too for where a number of items are from the same vendor but with different lead times.

The options to set  a blanket vendor lead time, or a Vendor item lead time and a specific order line lead time are all needed.

It is common practise for a vendor to deliver e.g. weekly.

Another related requirement is to link orders to be delivered on same date- e.g. for imports, companies may book a container and then order to fill it to minimise landed costs.

Another quirk is that monopoly vendors may decide when they will produce a given product e.g a certain size, or grade or recipe, and you then need to book capacity to buy from that production run .- rather than a lead time then a 'next available to order  date logic  is needed.

 

 

An item vendor setup to set up the lead time would be great. In addition to that you could add fields like minimum/maximum/default order quantity since they often alternate from vendor to vendor and often even between items of one vendor.

also take mode of delivery into account, ship = long leadtime, plane = short

This is very much related to this:

https://ideas.dynamics.com/ideas/dynamics-operations/ID0003622

This is really wanted and the solution is included as a part of my own idea; https://experience.dynamics.com/ideas/idea/?ideaid=fa2c1fac-2029-e911-9462-0003ff68bbc3

Highly required for many clients. Incorporating under the Approved Vendor setup with functionality similar to Default Order Settings on an item record would be a great improvement. Current client also has scenario of single vendor supplying multiple sites and needs to link various lead times to each site/warehouse location.

When using multiple suppliers for the same product it is important to be able to have separate settings by product by supplier i.e. one supplier delivers in 200 litre drums - the other 210 litre drums and impacts purchase agreements and purchase qty details - this function is a must

What is the status on this idea? Why hasn't it been implemented yet?