Description:

It is not possible to activate the Direct delivery mode at the item requirement sales order line level. Instead the classic marking can be used and open a purchase order through the Create purchase order button. Then the purchase order needs to be manually updated, choosing the customer’s address from the global address book and propagating it to the lines, which is quite manual and time consuming. Purchase order line must be received in the system and packing slip posted from the sales order, so there is no benefits from the standard D365 direct delivery functionality.

Idea:

Activate Direct Delivery for item requirement sales orders so it is possible to group the sales orders lines per vendor, warehouse and use the benefits from Direct delivey on item requirement sales order lines in the same way as for standard sales order lines. Resulting in the creation of one PO per vendor and warehouse (drop shipment) combination.