Supply Chain 10.0.49: Warehouse Defaults, Supplier Engagement, and Quality You Cannot Disable

Supply Chain Management 10.0.49, build 10.0.2790, follows the same calendar as Finance: preview in July 2026, self-update in September 2026, auto-update in October 2026. The finance half of that build is covered in what to regression-test before the October auto-update. This note is the warehouse, procurement, and quality half, which will surprise a different set of people.

Most new rows are still off. A smaller set is already on. Quality management and Inventory Visibility integrations are mandatory. Test those three groups separately or a failed receipt will be blamed on the wrong feature.

On by default in the warehouse

Three warehouse behaviors are enabled without a Feature management opt-in. You can still turn them off in this version. Assume they are on after the update until someone proves otherwise in your sandbox.

Import inbound ASNs as despatch advice messages. Advance shipping notices that used to arrive through one path can now be imported as despatch advice. Run one ASN you already trust and confirm the receipt lines, quantities, and inventory status match the previous import. A second successful path that creates a second document for the same shipment is the defect to look for.

Prevent multiple owners in warehouse locations. A location that previously held inventory for more than one owner will now reject that mix. Before the update, list locations that already have multiple owners. Those locations are the ones that will fail the next putaway, not the empty locations in the test company.

Source system inventory status mapping. Status values that arrive from a source system are mapped rather than taken as-is. Confirm a known external status still lands on the inventory status your warehouse uses for available and for blocked. A mapping that defaults unknown statuses to available will receive goods you meant to quarantine.

RFQ bid–driven fixed asset field updates are also on by default, on the procurement side. A bid that updates fixed-asset fields on a purchase requisition needs a regression if your RFQ process creates or changes assets. (Production ready preview) Dynamic work classification moved from preview to on by default in this version. Warehouse work that classifies itself differently after the update is that feature, and you can still disable it while you compare waves.

Enable lookup based search for Sales External Item Identifier went from preview straight to mandatory. Sales users who type an external item id will get lookup search whether the old form behavior was what they wanted or not.

Still a preview, still an administrator's decision

(Preview) Supplier Engagement is in Feature management, and the 23 September announcement describes the same public preview: onboarding, requests for quotation, purchase orders, and invoicing, in a workspace and a supplier portal, across legal entities. Turn it on for one vendor and one legal entity. A portal across every vendor is a data-exposure decision. The announcement context is in the September agentic ERP note.

(Preview) Use same batch selection for raw materials in production enforces same-batch selection on production orders and batch orders. Pick a formula or BOM that today is allowed to split a batch across two lots. With the feature on, reservation should refuse that split. With it off, today's behavior remains. Do not enable it in a process industry during a campaign week.

(Preview) Optimized inventory transaction consolidation is the third preview. Enable it only where consolidation volume is a measured problem, and compare on-hand and inventory value before and after one consolidation run.

Planning Optimization adds three Feature management toggles, all off until enabled: consider open-for-pickup on the transport calendar for planned transfer orders, consider BOM and route in supply- and demand-forecast reduction, and filter derived requirements by the coverage time fence. Each one changes what Planning Optimization will plan. Enable one, freeze the others, and compare a single item's planned orders to the previous run.

Enable financial tags for purchase order invoicing is the accounts-payable row in this build. Financial tags on PO invoices are a finance design question. Turn them on only if the tag values you expect on the invoice are already the ones procurement captures on the order.

Shop floor and direct delivery, easy to miss

After the system calculates time registrations for the day, workers cannot clock in, clock out, or start and stop jobs. The error Microsoft documents is: "You can't register any activities now because your registrations are already processed for today. Please contact your supervisor for assistance." The supervisor opens the Approve page and selects Undo calculation for today. If a site calculates registrations at lunch, the afternoon shift stops until someone knows that menu item.

Synchronize establishment across the direct delivery chain is a purchase parameter plus an origin prompt. It controls whether the establishment stays aligned between the sales order and the purchase order on a direct delivery. French and other establishment-based companies should test one direct delivery with the parameter on and one with it off. The France filing side of establishments is in France e-invoicing and e-reporting.

Message processor queues can use batch auto-scale and priority-based scheduling. Previously, Number of processor tasks was capped at the maximum batch threads of a single batch server. With auto-scale, the queue can use capacity beyond that server. Priority scheduling can tie a queue to a batch server group, a scheduling priority, and a maximum concurrency. This is off until enabled, like most enhancements in the release. Change it only if a queue is already falling behind, and watch the batch servers it will now share.

Two smaller enhancements belong on a functional script if you use them. CAPA cases get an HTML note editor on the case detail page, replacing a read-only viewer. Unified pricing management can write price-change rows to RetailPriceChangeTracking so Azure Product Search hears about global rule, discount, and trade-agreement changes.

Mandatory, so the October update will not ask

These stay listed in Feature management and can no longer be turned off:

• Advanced quality management, and dispense management.
• Inventory Visibility integrations for ATP, reservation offset, external inventory transactions, and warehouse items.
• Aggregated material availability on work orders, and the credit-limit check when a work order is dispatched.
• Recalculate delivery dates when a direct delivery is created.
• Vendor rebate outputs consolidated for the same vendor, and posted to the purchase-order vendor.

Run one quality order, one Inventory Visibility adjustment, one maintenance work order that needs materials, and one direct delivery after the sandbox update. Those four scripts cover the mandatory set. The new warehouse defaults are a fifth script. The previews are a separate decision, made after those five pass.