Microsoft has released Cross-Legal-Entity Fulfillment Optimization in public preview for Dynamics 365 Commerce and Finance and Operations, letting Distributed Order Management evaluate inventory across multiple legal entities and automatically build the intercompany transactions needed to fulfill an order from wherever the stock actually sits, rather than being limited to the entity where the order was placed
The release ships five capabilities: cross-legal-entity fulfillment groups that span warehouses and stores across companies, inventory visibility that lets the optimization engine draw from a larger pool, fulfillment profiles that apply logic consistently while preserving entity-specific settings, automated intercompany transaction orchestration, and execution that keeps the original sales order and the intercompany purchase and sales orders synchronized throughout. In Microsoft's example, a retailer with separate entities in Germany, France, and Spain can take an order in Germany, automatically source it from available French stock, and route fulfillment there without manual intercompany coordination.
This is currently scoped to retail sales orders across POS, e-commerce, call center, and headless channels, with support for standard Supply Chain Management sales orders on the roadmap but not yet committed. It builds directly on Cross-Legal-Entity Inventory Lookup, released earlier this year, which gave store associates visibility into stock at other entities. Microsoft also used the same release to note that Distributed Order Management now supports advanced warehouse-enabled items, closing a gap where those items were previously excluded from sourcing and fulfillment optimization.
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