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Transfer WIP item and WIP ledger entry

GA · 15 min in 1 video · dev relevance medium · documented as Use inventory put-aways and picks for subcontracting medium match

Transfer WIP item and WIP ledger entry

A routing line can be marked with a transfer WIP item to track work in progress moved to and from the subcontractor. Posting creates a WIP ledger entry instead of item ledger entries.

Area: Supply chain. Status: GA. Developer relevance: medium. Airtime: 15 min across 1 video, demoed.

Status evidence

  • Nothing said about status; launch event convention: generally available unless stated otherwise.

Where they talk about it

Quotes

  • 1:42 "Now subcontracting operations can benefit from the same warehouse uh processes. So, no need to handle them differently." - Design goal: subcontracting reuses the standard warehouse handling.
  • 2:50 "you will get notification that Subcontracting up will be replacing this legacy Subcontracting worksheet" - Shows the app replaces the legacy worksheet, which matters for upgrades and existing customizations.
  • 4:42 "I will get it on vendor location, like the place where subcontracting will be happening, differently." - Describes the consignment at vendor supply method, which avoids an extra transfer.
  • 5:35 "I will specify that it's vendor supplied. I will get it from this vendor." - Shows how a vendor-supplied component is handled and still counted in finished good cost.
  • 8:26 "It's still possible today if I'm doing the bulk operations and there are extra capabilities there" - Confirms the Subcontracting worksheet still exists next to the per-order action.
  • 13:09 "you can see that I have two toggles enabled, flow to production order and flow to purchase." - Shows how attachments move from routing to the purchase document.
  • 15:23 "it will be registered in a new ledger entry called work in progress ledger entry." - Names the new ledger entry that tracks WIP goods at a subcontractor, separate from item ledger entries.

Caveats mentioned

  • Makes little sense for the first operation, since nothing is work in progress yet

Prerequisites mentioned

  • Subcontracting not as the first operation, for a meaningful WIP item
  • WIP item defined on the routing line

Documented features match

  • Use inventory put-aways and picks for subcontracting - medium confidence (override). Docs say: General availability, roadmap id 573355. Checked 2026-10-02 against learn.microsoft.com: the WIP item transfer is not a what's-new line item of its own, but it is described inside this item (inventory picks and return put-aways for WIP transfer orders, base quantity zero) and inside 'Set up and explore subcontracting more easily' (Subcontracting WIP Entries, adjust WIP). Microsoft Learn also has a dedicated article, 'Transfer WIP items between subcontractors' (https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dynamics365/business-central/subcontract-wip-transfers, ms.date 2026-09-04), and the Contoso Coffee walkthrough 'Set up and process a subcontracting operation'. The Subcontracting app itself shipped in 2026 release wave 1 (GA 2026-07-08), which is why much of the subcontracting stage time has no wave 2 what's-new counterpart.

Docs checked on 2026-10-02: the match is against Microsoft's what's new pages for the wave as they were on that date. Microsoft keeps filling the documentation, so "no documented item" can go stale. The wider product documentation on learn.microsoft.com was searched for this feature on the same date; the feature's data lists an article when one was found.

Tags: subcontracting, wip, routing, inventory, manufacturing, warehouse

Generated by pipeline step 06. Source: YouTube auto-captions of the launch event videos, see the deep links. Not official.