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Special Purchases on Sales Orders

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I would like to know if Microsoft is planning on making Special Purchase Orders easier to create and “hard link” off of a Sales Order, like a Drop Ship order.  I know I can create a “soft link” purchase order, but that still leaves it up to me to add comments linking the 2 documents.  To me, it should be easy to impliment a “hard link” special purchase.  The format is already there.  Creating Req's or creating a PO and then getting the Sales Order is more steps than it needs to be.  My previous ERP software has done this for nearly 10 years.  I find it hard to believe BC can't do this change easily.

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    YUN ZHU Profile Picture
    102,857 Super User 2026 Season 2 on at

    The standard BC "Special Order" feature automatically supports this kind of association; you might want to give it a try.

    Create special orders

    https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dynamics365/business-central/sales-how-to-create-special-orders

     

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    OussamaSabbouh Profile Picture
    18,958 Super User 2026 Season 2 on at

    Hello,

    Business Central already supports a hard link for Special Orders, but I agree that creating it is less convenient than Drop Shipments: when you set a Purchasing Code with Special Order on the Sales Order line and create the purchase through Requisition Worksheet → Special Order → Get Sales Orders → Carry Out Action Message, BC keeps the resulting Purchase Order supply specifically linked to that Sales Order demand; manually creating a PO and adding references/comments is not equivalent. Microsoft improved Drop Shipments in 2026 wave 1 by adding Create Purchase Orders directly from the Sales Order, but based on the current Microsoft documentation/release plan I couldn’t find an announced equivalent improvement for Special Orders yet. I would recommend submitting/voting for this on the Business Central Ideas portal because technically the linking mechanism already exists—the main missing piece is simplifying the user experience and allowing direct PO creation from the Sales Order similar to Drop Shipment.

    Regards,
    Oussama Sabbouh

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    AndrewThomas81 Profile Picture
    2,483 Super User 2026 Season 2 on at

    Try using special orders or drop shipments if this better represents your transactions.

     

    Kind Regards

     

    Andrew Thomas FCCA MCP

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