Day: November 20, 2023

This post is part of the New Functionality In Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central 2023 Wave 2 series in which I am taking a look at the new functionality introduced in Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central 2023 Wave 2.

The fourth of the new functionality in the Legislation section is Use drop shipments for triangular Intrastat trade.

Businesses that ship goods directly from a vendor in another EU country to a customer in a third EU country can exclude those transactions from their Intrastat reports, which makes the reports more accurate.

Enabled for: Users, automatically
Public Preview: Sep 2023
General Availability: Oct 2023

Feature Details

Triangular trade involves trade between companies located in three countries or regions where goods bypass the reporting company’s country. In Business Central, you can use drop shipments to handle triangular trade. To use drop shipments, you must turn on the Include Drop Shipment toggle on the Intrastat Report Setup page.

This feature allows for scenarios where a company orders goods from one EU country and drop ships the goods directly to another EU country, without importing the goods into its own country. In such cases, the Intrastat Report will exclude these transactions because the goods were directly delivered between two other EU countries. The calculation is based on the following information from the item ledger entries:

• Entries are marked as Drop Shipment.
• The Country/Region Code is different than the Country/Region Code on the Company Information page.

My Opinion

This enhancement sounds like it will improve the accuracy of the Intrastat report for goods drop shipped from vendor to customer. Since the UK left the European Union, the amount of work I do in the area of Intrastat reporting has dropped a lot, but we do still do some work with clients based in Ireland, an EU member state.

I actually have a project starting with one of those clients soon, who does have a requirement for Intrastat, so it will be interesting to talk to them about if this is required or not.

This post is part of the New Functionality In Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central 2023 Wave 2 series in which I am taking a look at the new functionality introduced in Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central 2023 Wave 2.

The ninth of the new functionality in the Governance and Administration section is Control partner access per environment.

Business Central customers with multiple environments are often working with many partners to support each environment. With this feature, customer administrators can now easily and efficiently control partner access to environments. This feature simplifies partner management by allowing administrators to assign partner tenants to each environment.

Enabled for: Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically
Public Preview: –
General Availability: Dec 2023

Feature Details

In 2023 wave 2, Microsoft are introducing new environment settings in the Business Central admin center that enable internal administrators to control which environments delegated users and multitenant apps from partner tenants can access and administer.

Internal administrators can specify the tenant IDs of partners that should be able to access each environment.

Delegated users and multitenant apps accessing or administering the environment must belong to an allowlisted tenant.

This feature is optional, and if no tenants are allowlisted for an environment, delegated users and multitenant apps will be able to access and administer the environment as they did before.

This feature only affects the use of the admin center API by multitenant apps that have been authorized within the admin center.

My Opinion

Better security is always welcome. This sounds interesting in terms of allowing an admin to limit which environments a partner can access; it makes a lot of sense as I’ve worked for clients previously supporting their UK and Ireland systems, but with no requirement to have any access to the US environment. It sounds like this enhancement will allow security to facilitate this use case to be configured.

This post is part of the In Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central (Inventory and Warehouse Management), how do I… series and of the wider In Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central, how do I… series which I am posting as I familiarise myself with Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central.

The top level of the advanced warehousing functionality, is to use the put-away worksheet, which requires both the require warehouse receipt and require warehouse put-away to be enabled. With the other settings, there are three toggles on the location card which need to be enabled to use the put-away worksheet. When you create a location, on the Warehouse fasttab, you need to toggle the Require Receive, Require Put-away and Use Put-away Worksheet options to the on position (the third option is disabled unless the first two are toggled on):

Receiving goods in this way, allows you to receive and plan the put-aways for multiple orders at the same time, instead of one-by-one. In the next couple of articles in this series, I’ll create a put-away worksheet template and then step through the process of using the put-away worksheet at the new WHITE location.