Inform vendors about vendor collaboration
When collaborating with vendors on purchase orders, your organization may come across a situation where there are not specific delivery terms defined and you must tell them when they should ship. Currently in Dynamics 365 Supply Chain Management, purchase orders include a delivery date that informs your organization when you should receive your order. By enabling the inform vendors about when to ship items feature, your organization can now see a ship date which specifies the date the vendor should ship from their location. The ship date is calculated according to the new transportation days setup. Your organization can define the number of days that is necessary to transport the order between the vendor location and your organization’s location.
To enable this feature, navigate to the Procurement and sourcing parameters page. Select the Delivery tab and set Supplier requested and confirmed shipment dates to Yes.
Note
This will only enable the feature for the legal entity you are working in. If you would like to enable this feature for multiple legal entities, you must repeat this process for each legal entity.
Set up purchase transport days
Follow these steps to specify the number of days that are required to transfer orders between the vendors location and your organization’s location:
Navigate to Procurement and sourcing > Setup > Distribution > Purchase transport days.
Select New.
On the General tab, enter information regarding the shipping point, receiving point, and transport.
Expand the Transport days per mode of delivery tab. Select Add and insert the Mode of delivery and specify the Transport days.
Note
If the Default checkbox isn't selected for any row, the Transport in days value that's specified on the General FastTab is used as the default travel time.
- Select Save.
Assign vendor ship calendars
Ship calendars can be leveraged to inform the vendor the dates that they can ship. For example, if your organization wants to space out the days that your orders are delivered to the warehouse to eliminate over-crowding, you can create ship calendars that indicate certain vendors can only ship Mondays and other vendors can only ship Thursdays to ensure deliveries on different days. To assign a ship calendar to a vendor, go to Procurement and sourcing > Vendors > All vendors. Open the vendor record that you want to assign the ship calendar to. Expand the Invoice and delivery tab and select the ship calendar that you want to assign to the vendor in the Ship calendar field.
