Vendor and purchase

Purpose

This page groups the vendor and purchase setup steps that are specifically needed for intercompany exchange. They adapt the standard Business Central behaviour to the IC flow, especially around drop shipments and subsequent quantity changes.

Prerequisites

• Purchases & payables setup in Business Central is completed.
• Permissions for the Purchases & Payables Setup page are granted.

Setup building blocks

Allow invoicing drop shipment before sales

By default, Business Central blocks invoicing a purchase order for a drop shipment until the linked sales order has been invoiced. This switch lifts that lock.

• Use only when the process intentionally invoices the purchase side first.
• Process details on the Drop shipment page.

Allow quantity 0 on posting

The switch suppresses the standard check Warn before posting purchase lines with quantity 0. As on the sales side it is relevant when Order changes leave lines at quantity 0.

• Also controllable per user via My Notifications.
• Note: the switch currently applies globally; a future version will limit its effect to IC documents.