RM573345Dynamics 365 Business Central: Supply Chain Management - Carry subcontracting instructions into purchase orders

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Subcontractors need clear instructions about the work they must perform. Reentering that information on purchase orders takes time and can introduce differences between the routing, production order, and purchasing documents.

Details

Subcontracting comments and attachments now follow the operation into the purchase order. The purchasing document keeps the production context needed by the vendor while allowing you to review and adjust the information before sending the order.

The Subcontracting Comments action is available from standard tasks, routing lines, routing version lines, and production order routing operations. Comments follow the production flow:

Add subcontracting comments to a standard task or routing operation.

When you assign the standard task, its comments copy to the routing operation.

When you create or refresh a production order, routing comments copy to the production order routing operation.

When you create a subcontracting purchase order directly or from the Subcontracting Worksheet, the comments become descriptive purchase lines attached to the related subcontracting line.

Both Description and Description 2 flow through the process. If you change the vendor or recalculate the work center on the Subcontracting Worksheet, the worksheet preserves routing-specific descriptions when the work center still matches the production order routing operation.

You can also carry supporting documents from the routing into the purchase order. On a routing header attachment, turn on both Production Trx and Purchase Trx. The attachment copies first to the production order and then to each related subcontracting purchase line. Attachments added manually to a production order line don't offer the Purchase Trx setting and don't copy automatically. Purchase-line attachments also aren't included automatically in vendor email messages. Use the Add file from source document action on the Email Editor page.

GA date: October CY2026