Every morning, your warehouse supervisor faces the same question: What can we actually ship today? With dozens or hundreds of open sales orders on the screen, answering them by hand means checking availability order by order, cross-referencing stock, and setting aside anything held back by missing inventory. By the time the picks reach the floor, hours are gone.
In Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central, this work is slow because the standard tools were not built for it. You can sort on only one column at a time, and availability is not deducted across competing orders, so two orders can both look shippable even when there is only enough stock for one. The result is manual checking, double-promised inventory, and back orders tracked on spreadsheets or sticky notes.
The Order Fulfillment Worksheet directly answers the “what can I ship today” question. It reads open sales and transfer orders for a location. It calculates availability from the top down, so you can see at a glance which orders are fully available, partially available, or unavailable.
Back orders that clear themselves
Back orders are where most of the manual effort hides. When you rely on a spreadsheet to remember which orders are waiting on stock, an arriving purchase order means someone has to go back and work out what it unblocks. The Order Fulfillment Worksheet removes that step. When inventory arrives, the worksheet recognizes the new supply. It reports the waiting orders as ready to fulfill, so your back orders resolve the moment the stock is on hand instead of the next time someone remembers to look.
Inventory allocated once, not promised twice
Allocation is another place where orders go wrong. Because the worksheet deducts inventory as it calculates, each unit is committed to only one unit. If one item covers only one of two competing orders, the worksheet assigns it to the order that should ship first rather than reporting both as shippable. When you need to hold stock for a specific order, such as one set to ship completely, you can reserve the allocated quantity to that order so another order cannot claim it before the rest of the line arrives.
Order status you can actually see change
Staying on top of status changes matters as much as the first calculation. Every order carries a live availability status, and a recalculation updates those statuses as stock, picks, and shipments change. You do not have to re-read the entire backlog to find what moved, because the status tells you. You can also let this run on a schedule through the job queue, so the worksheet re-evaluates new and changed orders without anyone opening the screen.
Rules that match how you actually ship
Not every order deserves the same treatment, and the worksheet lets you set the rules. You can sort and filter by multiple criteria at once, save custom views, and decide how inventory is allocated: by planned shipment date, customer value, shipping agent, or order size. Those same rules drive unattended runs. You might generate picks every thirty minutes for fully available orders shipping in the next two days, or pull every small order on a given carrier before the afternoon pickup.
The Order Fulfillment Worksheet works with any warehouse configuration, including locations with no bins or warehouse documents, and it can create the shipments and picks for the orders you choose. Your team stops guessing and starts shipping.
Learn more at FulfillmentForDynamics.com, or talk to your Business Central partner.