MSDyn365FO: Blind Shipment

In Microsoft Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations, there is an option to hide the address and any other identification information of your company on the shipment documents. It might be useful in the cases when the customer is having you ship directly to their customer (ship to end user). You might need to hide any references to your company on outbound shipping documents. This makes the shipment appear as if it shipped from your customer to their customer, rather than from your company.

Navigate to Accounts receivable > Orders > All sales orders > Header view > Delivery tab

Select the Blind shipment checkbox.

Generate Packing slip for the highlighted sales order by clicking Pick and Pack tab on the Action pane and selecting Post packing slip button.

If you open Packing slip journal, you will notice the Blind shipment flag on the Overview tab.

If Blind shipment flag = YES, while printing the Packing slip document, references to your company will not appear.

Below you may find the packing slip journal as well as Packing slip report as if you didn’t select Blind shipment flag.

Generate Proforma invoice for the highlighted sales order by clicking the Invoice tab on the Action pane and selecting the corresponding button.

Below you may find the Proforma invoice report as if you didn’t select Blind shipment flag.

Generate Invoice for the highlighted sales order by clicking the Invoice tab on the Action pane and selecting the corresponding button.

Below you may find the Invoice report as if you didn’t select Blind shipment flag.

Keep in mind that Blind shipment flag logic will not be reflected in the Sales order confirmation report, unlike other shipping documents.

Blind shipment designation. There are several ways to designate a sales order as a Blind shipment order:

• The entire sales order can be manually designated as a Blind shipment order (via a manual change of the Blind shipment field on the sales order header), which means all line items will be treated as Blind shipment. This Blind shipment flag can be assigned at any time prior to sales order shipment.
• The sales order can inherit the Blind shipment designation from the customer.

Follow the steps below to designate Blind shipment from the customer:

Navigate to Accounts receivable > Customers > All customers.

Expand Addresses section.

Click on More options > Advanced.

Expand the Delivery fast tab.

Turn on Blind shipment flag.

Now, if you go to the sales order and change the Delivery address to the address that is marked as Blind shipment, Blind shipment flag will be overridden.

Switch to the sales order header to double-check that Blind shipment flag has been changed accordingly.

That’s it!