Life Sciences Supply Chain Management allows managing manufacturers in Microsoft Dynamics 365 Finance & Supply Chain Management. The master table of vendors and manufacturers is shared since they are both created and maintained in the All vendors form (Accounts payable > Vendors > All vendors).
Life Sciences Supply Chain Management allows distinguishing between the types of vendors (for example, pure distributor or supplier), defining the Vendor type for each record in the All vendors form (Accounts payable > Vendors > All vendors). The list of vendor types can be defined in Accounts payable > Vendors > Vendor types. Based on the Vendor type selected, the vendor can be enabled as a manufacturer. For example:
A vendor that only acts as a distributor is assigned to the Vendor type = Distributor and is not enabled as a manufacturer (that is, Enabled manufacturer checkbox disabled).
A vendor that is also a manufacturer is assigned to the Vendor type = Supplier and is enabled as a manufacturer. Only the vendor enabled as a manufacturer can be selected in the Manufacturer fields throughout the system (that is, Enabled manufacturer checkbox enabled).
Vendors enabled as manufacturers (that is, with Vendor type = Supplier according to the example above) are available to be selected in all the Manufacturers fields in the system.
Users can also define the default qualification status (that is, Default status field) for each vendor type.