What's New: E-Documents and E-Shipments (2025 release wave 2)

Overview

The video covers what is new for e-documents and e-shipments in 2025 release wave 2. E-shipments are electronic versions of shipment documents that can be sent to authorities where required. The speaker names Mexico and India as countries where this is already mandatory and says other countries will follow.

The demos show sales shipment e-documents, transfer shipments driven by a new setting on the location, creating e-documents from already posted documents, an export and email workflow, and the post and send attachment choice. The speaker states that the system has no file for a specific localization yet. The sample file is for demos, and localization will follow per country. EFTI support for EU electronic transport documents is mentioned as depending on the regulation becoming mandatory.

Key points

• E-shipments are electronic shipment documents for authorities, also called e-delivery notes or e-way bills. The speaker names Mexico and India as countries where they are already mandatory, and Serbia as one where they will be required soon.
• The e-documents framework already covered sales invoices and sales credit memos. With this release it now also covers sales shipments and transfer shipments.
• Locations have a new field under Warehouse called e-documents transfer document sending profile. When you post a transfer order, it is picked up and sent automatically based on that setup.
• E-documents can be created from already posted documents with Related > Create. The customer needs a document sending profile that uses e-documents, otherwise an error says the profile is not set up for electronic documents.
• In the demo, a workflow exports the sales shipment e-document. When the e-document service status changes to exported, the workflow emails the PDF and the electronic document.
• In post and send, under email attachments, you can now choose the e-document, the PDF, or both.
• The demo file is only an example. Country-specific files will come with localization, and EU EFTI support depends on the regulation becoming mandatory.

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.

• table 14 “Location” at 6:40
• page 130 “Posted Sales Shipment” at 5:28

Quotes

• 0:59 “This is your shipment in business central in electronical file. So as I said this is just digital version.”
• 1:25 “somewhere this is already mandatory for example in Mexico in India this is already mandatory in some other countries it will be mandatory soon”
• 2:12 “with this release we extended it to sales shipments and transfer shipments as well”
• 3:04 “First it improve and standardize whole workflow process. So it support new document types for structure e documentation especially in countries where this is”
• 3:27 “Currently in the system we do not have some specific uh file uh for specific localization. This is just example you can use in”
• 6:40 “you can now on any given location go under warehouse and then see that we have a new field”
• 6:52 “we added uh the ability to create electronic documents from posted uh documents and this will be all the document types that we support”
• 8:46 “you can now also under email select email attachments and select e document and PDF and e document if you want to also send”

Disclaimers in the video

• 1:45 subject-to-change: I try to to avoid assumptions maybe it will be mandatory maybe it will not but minimum uh this is something what will allow actually require from authorities to receive digital versions
• 1:56 coming-later: if it’s already exist we will enable it and if it become mandatory we will localize
• 3:27 preview: Currently in the system we do not have some specific uh file uh for specific localization. This is just example you can use in demos. But as soon as we start localization of that, we will localize basin on specific countries.

Presenters (as heard): Alexander Toto, Manus.