Dennis Thie Avanade Sr. Consultant

The vendor collaboration functionality allows for purchase order confirmations. For a vendor to be able to see and confirm a purchase order, a user of the organisation should manually send one or multiple purchase orders for vendor confirmation.

Sending purchase orders for vendor confirmation allows for the late selection functionality, but lacks a batch functionality. This limits an organization to setup a recurring batch job that automatically sends purchase orders in a specific state for vendor confirmation. Please allow this to be batchable.

We've seen recent developments on the inventory lookup bringing ATP (Available To Promise) logic to the inventory lookup. The store clerk can not only view open purchase orders and reserved sales orders, but can also view ATP information showing the expected available inventory level on future dates.

For order scenario's where you would create a customer order for pick-up or ship-to, you would need to select a requested pickup or shipping date. However, this date picker allows the store clerk to select any given date, no matter if it is historical and not taking into account any ATP logic.

The data picker in the customer order for pick-up or ship-to scenarios can be hugely improved by:

- Giving the store clerk the option to select the 'next available date' based on ATP information and/or integrating ATP information in the date picker step.

- Warning the store clerk if a date that is selected that is not feasible based on ATP information (configurable by parameter?).

- Not allowing historical date selection.