Multi-Location and Multi-Warehouse Shipping for Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central
Running shipping across multiple warehouses or shipping stations from a single Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central instance shouldn’t require juggling separate carrier setups at every site. Dynamic Ship gives each physical location its own carrier accounts, rates, and shipping rules, all within one Business Central environment. Hence, a company with five warehouses ships the same way at every one of them.
At a Glance
- Configure separate carrier accounts for each Business Central location so that each site can ship on its own negotiated rates.
- Run rate shopping, labeling, and tracking the same way at every warehouse from one Business Central instance.
- Generate carrier manifests location by location, so each site hands off a clean, accurate pickup list.
- License Dynamic Ship per physical shipping location, not per user or per site subscription tier.
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Key Capabilities
Location-specific carrier accounts. Assign a different carrier account ID to each Business Central location via Dynamic Ship Carrier Accounts, so a warehouse in one region can rate and ship on its own account rather than a shared, one-size-fits-all setup.
Per-location freight quoting control. Include or exclude specific carrier accounts from rate shopping on a location basis, which matters when multiple accounts with the same carrier serve the same site and only one should surface in quotes.
Consistent workflow across every site. The same Package Worksheet, rate shopping, label printing, and tracking experience runs at every location, so staff moving between warehouses or covering another site’s shipping desk already know the screens.
Location-based shipment manifests. Build a carrier manifest per location, per carrier, per day, so each site’s driver pickup reflects only that location’s posted shipments.
Warehouse and location-aware permissions. Set up warehouse employees with location-specific access, so shipping staff at one site are scoped to that site’s shipments and license plates.
Transfer order shipping across locations. Ship transfer orders between locations using the same carrier integration, labels, and tracking as sales orders, so inter-warehouse moves receive the same shipping rigor as customer-facing shipments.
One consolidated system, no per-site software silos. Every location ships from the same Business Central tenant, so there’s no separate installation, license, or shipping system to reconcile per warehouse.
How Multi-Location Shipping Works in Dynamic Ship
Configure each Business Central location with its own Dynamic Ship carrier accounts and, where needed, mark specific accounts to include or exclude from freight quoting at that location. When a shipment is created at any location, Dynamic Ship pulls the carrier accounts and pricing rules tied to that location code automatically, so the correct account, rate, and service list appear without the user having to select a site manually. At day’s end, each location generates its own manifest, pulling only the posted shipments tied to that location and shipping agent, so the driver at each site gets a clean, location-specific pickup list.
Why Dynamic Ship Multi-Location Shipping Stands Out
Many Business Central shipping tools are built around a single warehouse configuration, which forces multi-site operations to either standardize all locations under a single carrier account or manage workarounds outside the system. Dynamic Ship configures carrier accounts, rates, and manifesting at the location level natively, so a distributor running ten warehouses can give each one its own negotiated carrier rates. In contrast, every site still ships the same way.
This also extends past sales orders. Because Dynamic Ship ships transfer orders with full carrier integration, a company moving inventory between its own locations gets the same rate shopping, labeling, and tracking on inter-warehouse transfers that it gets on customer shipments, all from the same Business Central environment.
Licensing follows the same per-location logic. One Dynamic Ship license covers a physical shipping location regardless of how many packing stations or users work there, so adding a new warehouse means adding one location license, not reassembling a carrier stack from scratch.
Who Uses Multi-Location Shipping
Operations managers overseeing several warehouses use it to standardize the shipping workflow across sites while still letting each location run its own carrier accounts and rates. Warehouse managers at individual locations use it to manage their site’s carriers, manifests, and shipping staff without needing visibility into other warehouses. Logistics coordinators at the corporate or regional level use it to confirm that transfer orders between locations are handled with the same tracking and documentation as outbound customer shipments. IT and system administrators managing a multi-site Business Central deployment use it to avoid setting up separate shipping systems or licenses for each warehouse.
Frequently Asked Questions
Yes. Dynamic Ship lets you configure a specific carrier account for each Business Central location through Dynamic Ship Carrier Accounts. When a location has its own account configured, Dynamic Ship uses that account for freight quotes and label generation at that site instead of a shared default so that each warehouse can rate and ship on its own negotiated terms.
Yes. Dynamic Ship supports shipping transfer orders in addition to sales orders and warehouse shipments, with the same carrier integration, label generation, and tracking used for customer-facing shipments. This lets multi-warehouse operations apply the same shipping rigor and documentation to inter-location inventory moves.
Manifests are generated per location, per carrier, per day. When creating a manifest, you set the location code so that only shipments from that specific warehouse are included, along with the shipping agent for that carrier. This keeps each site’s driver pickup list accurate to that location’s posted shipments only.
Yes. If a location has multiple accounts with the same carrier, you can mark specific accounts to be included or excluded from freight quoting on the sales order and sales quote pages. This is useful when one account should be the default for quoting at a site, while another is used for other purposes, such as third-party billing.