What's New: Drop Shipments (2026 release wave 1)

Overview

The video covers what changed for drop shipments in 2026 release wave 1. Before, posting had a fixed order: receipt or shipment first, then the sales invoice, then the purchase invoice. Now purchase and sales operations can be processed independently.

It also covers new ways to create drop shipment purchase documents, drop shipment demand in order planning, and a get order lines function for invoices connected to multiple orders or receipts. Demos cover posting receipt and invoice together, the receipt on invoice toggle on purchase invoices, and undoing a drop shipment shipment.

Key points

• Previously the order was fixed: post receipt/shipment, then sales invoice, then purchase invoice. In 2026 wave 1 the sales and purchase invoices can be posted in either order, so the purchase side can be handled independently of the sales side.
• Drop shipment purchase documents can now also be created from the sales order page (Actions > Functions > Create Purchase Document > Create Purchase Order), the order planning page, or the planning worksheet. Before, only the requisition worksheet (Get Sales Orders) or one-by-one creation from a purchase order was available.
• The order planning page now includes drop shipment lines when calculating sales demand. The planning worksheet has a new drop shipment group with a get order lines action.
• A drop shipment purchase order can be posted as receipt and invoice in one step, and the shipment is updated automatically.
• Get order lines is a more elaborate replacement for get receipt lines, for example when an invoice is connected to multiple orders or receipts.
• If the receipt on invoice toggle is turned on in the invoice details of the drop shipment purchase order, you can post a purchase invoice built with get order lines. The purchase order is then shown as received and invoiced without being posted manually.
• Undo shipment now works for drop shipments. In the demo it was used on the shipment not yet invoiced on the purchase side, which returned the item to the vendor so it could be processed again.

Features

Every feature below: status not stated, demoed.

AL objects mentioned

As heard in the captions. A name that matches one object page by exact type and name links to it; the others stay as named.

• page “requisition worksheet” at 3:26
• page 50 “Purchase Order” at 3:41
• page 42 “Sales Order” at 3:53
• page 5522 “Order Planning” at 4:21
• page 99000852 “Planning Worksheet” at 4:34
• page 51 “Purchase Invoice” at 6:25
• page “shipment” at 8:39

Not found in BC28-30: page “requisition worksheet”, page “shipment”.

Quotes

• 0:32 “Business Central support this scenario like for a long long long time, but with this release we allow you extra level of capabilities”
• 1:40 “in the version which we are releasing in the 2026 wave one we added more flexibility”
• 1:52 “now most scenarios are unlocked again you starting the same way you post receipt maybe shipment like together”
• 2:32 “we also have a functionality which is called order get order lines. You can use get order lines as a more elaborate replacement for”
• 3:53 “So now you can do it from the sales order page, from order planning page or from the planning worksheet”
• 6:04 “We only create this document then we scroll down to invoice details and activate the new toggle receipt on invoice”
• 7:37 “I didn’t do anything with this purchase document. It was processed automatically. So together with a payable agents and automation that sounds as a”
• 8:39 “it’s the only one which is not invoiced on purchase side and we use the undo shipment to cancel”