Release Notes 2025-Q1
This document describes the changes in the latest version of SmartTrade for Business Central that is available from the 1st of April 2025 and can be downloaded / updated from Microsoft App Source.
Note
All functionality described in previous release notes still are available unless described otherwise in this document.
Productivity Enhancements
Sales
Lock quotes after conversion to order
Sales quotes can no longer be modified after conversion.
Option to link salesperson to item or item group
New setup option added.
Show multiple delivery addresses for customer in order entry
In the absence of a default address, a selection of available delivery addresses opens automatically.
Show sales price per unit on item lines
Added price per unit as additional information on item lines, additional to price per CE.
Supply Chain
Customs status per location
Customs status change results in underlying lines being updated upon modification.
Automatic adjustment of ERD by changing ETA
ERD now responds to changes made in ETA fied in purchase orders.
Inventory availability
Show stock position per lot
Addition of separate calculations per line for weight and consumer unit per package.
Traceability
Purchasing without lot number
Items with enabled traceability settings are set to show in purchase line when purchased without lot number.
EDI
Allow duplicate EDI order reference via setting
Added setting to allow/reject receiving duplicate EDI order references.
EDI message adjustments:
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- Various improvements to ORDRSP, INVOIC, and DESADV message structures (such as PIA-, LIN-, PRI-, QTY-, and MOA-segments).
- Correct use of EAN005/EAN009, shipment date derivation, address structure (BY, IV, DP), discounts, payment information (PAT), and segment order.
- Better distinction between DTM codes (DTM10, DTM17, DTM35, DTM64, DTM137).
- Improvement in creation and processing of manually entered EDI orders.
- Improvements in exporting EDI ORDRSP, UNH segment, and error checking per message.
- Processing of GLN IV address in UNB header and correct order confirmation destination (Invoice address vs buyer’s adress).
- Conversion of manually entered orders to EDI messages
- Alignment of Shipment date to requested delivery date in case of no requested date available.
- NA segment removed from BGM and BGM+ segment filled .
- PRI+AAB replaced with addition of unit price.
- QTY+21 (ordered quantity) added.
- RFF-segments for customer and vendor information specified.
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Performance improvements
Improved general performance and system stability
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- Improved speed in the ‘item lot availability’ screen.
- Improved speed by adjustment of sorting transport documents and notifications, opportunities, and item lot availability.
- EDI codeunit optimized.
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Tips
Please check your user settings table to see whether new settings have been added which apply your needs to shield things like cost prices for certain users or prevent users can override planning lines.
Problems solved
General
Maintenance conducted
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- Obsolete issues related to BC26 removed.
- Source currency amount was added by Microsoft, custom field is removed.
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Finance
Posting bugs
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- In specific cases, posting to certain general ledger accounts were incorrect which is now corrected.
- Bug in currency posting fixed.
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Rounding issue
System attempts to round in cases with zero quantity corrected.
Cost type check
Check on maximum allowed cost type recurrences in calculation is restored.
Sales
Reserved lot invisible in availability
Display of sales without reserved lot numbers has been restored.
Supply Chain
Lead time calculation correction
Corrected calculation of transport times on transport orders.
Error messages fixed
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- Error when adding contract line to order fixed.
- Error when deleting messages on container fixed.
- Error when shipment document field was not filled fixed.
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Inventory availability
BOM Factbox
Information displayed corrected.
Traceability
Lot related issues
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- Reserved lot now correctly visible in item lot availability.
- Item number entry on item lot availability list page behaving as intended.
- Inventory in transit is corrected to be displayed correctly, even when using lots.
- Lot availability shows stock positions of items without lot
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EDI
EDI bugs
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- Incorrect processing when importing multiple EDI orders.
- Incorrect sales unit, EDIFACT structure error, and sender data (PO box in header) corrected.
- EDI order confirmation now based on the correct EDI sender instead of invoice recipient.
- Error in EDI processing without PO Box or with incorrect lines fixed.
- Corrected EDI import file to order translation.
- Incorrect UNH+ structure adjusted.
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