Job Queue or "Other" means to automate Purchase Orders from Sales Orders?

USE CASE:
Customer(s) buys items. Sales Order generated for Customer(s) to buy Items.
Items being sold are NOT Inventory Items but are on-demand purchased for re-sale and Drop Shipped.
At close of business each day, the list of Sales Orders needs to be processed to create Purchase Orders w Drop Ship.
*Assumption is there are too many daily Sales Orders to perform this Purchase Order creation and Drop Ship 1 by 1 manually.

QUESTION:
Can the above scenario by automated to avoid 1 by 1 Purchase Order creation against Sales Order lines?

P.S. Be kind, I’m new to this! :slight_smile:

Peter,
Welcome to the forums! Yes, Business Central has a process to cycle through all Sales Orders looking for Drop Ship Items and makes the suggestion(s) on what to buy and from what Vendors.

Go to the Requsition Worksheet and run the Drop Shipment > “Get Sales Orders…” process, as shown in the below screenshot.
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The Purchase Order Lines created will be linked directly to the Sales Order Lines. When the Vendor notifies you of the shipment, you can Post your Purchase Order Lines as “Received”. This will automatically mark the linked Sales Order Lines as Shipped. You can then manually invoice those lines or have a Job Queue cycle through and bill the Shipped Not Invoiced Sales Lines.

I don’t know if there is a Learning Module specific to Drop Shipments, but it would be good to look through Microsoft’s Topics: Browse all courses, learning paths, and modules - Training | Microsoft Learn

Best Regards,
Ben Baxter
Accent Software Inc

Thanks @Ben_Baxter , appreciate the reply here and “over there” :slight_smile: