Carry subcontracting instructions into purchase orders

Microsoft 365 roadmap 573345 · Supply Chain Management · generally available · roadmap status “Launched”, phase General Availability

What Microsoft says

Business Value Subcontractors need clear instructions about the work they must perform. Reentering that information on purchase orders takes time and can introduce differences between the routing, production order, and purchasing documents. Details Subcontracting comments and attachments now follow the operation into the purchase order. The purchasing document keeps the production context needed by the vendor while allowing you to review and adjust the information before sending the order. The Subcontracting Comments action is available from standard tasks, routing lines, routing version lines, and production order routing operations. Comments follow the production flow: Add subcontracting comments to a standard task or routing operation. When you assign the standard task, its comments copy to the routing operation. When you create or refresh a production order, routing comments copy to the production order routing operation. When you create a subcontracting purchase order directly or from the Subcontracting Worksheet, the comments become descriptive purchase lines attached to the related subcontracting line. Both Description and Description 2 flow through the process. If you change the vendor or recalculate the work center on the Subcontracting Worksheet, the worksheet preserves routing-specific descriptions when the work center still matches the production order routing operation. You can also carry supporting documents from the routing into the purchase order. On a routing header attachment, turn on both Production Trx and Purchase Trx . The attachment copies first to the production order and then to each related subcontracting purchase line. Attachments added manually to a production order line don’t offer the Purchase Trx setting and don’t copy automatically. Purchase-line attachments also aren’t included automatically in vendor email messages. Use the Add file from source document action on the Email Editor page.

Dates

• General availability: October CY2026 (2026 release wave 2)
• Public preview: not given
• On the roadmap since 2026-09-30, last changed 2026-09-30

Covered by

Matched by Haiku among videos and Learn pages in the same galaxy system, checked against the roadmap ids and the evidence text. Every link below was reviewed by Opus.

Videos

• What’s new in SCM: Subcontracting (2026 release wave 2): Subcontracting comments and instructions at 10:48; Line attachments for subcontracting instructions at 11:12
• What’s new in SCM: Overview (2026 release wave 2): Subcontracting comments and attachments on purchase lines at 1:29

Source: Microsoft 365 roadmap. Status words follow the roadmap.