Is there a native way to prevent the ability to create an Item Fulfillment from a Sales Order? For example, via a workflow if a certain field is set? I’d like to prevent fulfillment at least via the UI and the Bulk Fulfill Orders page contexts, but hoping there’s just a simple global setting.

1. You could pretty easily remove the fulfill button in the UI with a workflow. I'm not sure if you can restrict the bulk fulfill orders with permissions or anything. 2 You could alternatively script the item fulfillment creation with a UserEvent script and reject in the the before submit if the context is UserInterface. Not sure if that method is doable with workflow, I use code more than workflow. EDIT- I also don't know if the second method stops the bulk fulfill page, as it is likely a background job NS fires to do the work

can you split the permissions with the role that can fulfill the order?

In theory you could remove the permission to create IF's from the user role, then create a script that adds a new "Fulfill" button only when you criteria is met. Then when this button is clicked, the script creates the IF - not sure if this bit is doable, so maybe the button ticks a (hidden) checkbox on the SO, and this can trigger a AfterSubmit script to create the SO if this box is ticked.

or you could use a scheduled script to trigger the fulfillment

Thanks! These all seem a little overly complex for the scope. We are going to go with a less administrative method—the fulfillment specialist can just filter the bulk fulfill orders page to exclude orders that have our new “do not fulfill” custom checkbox checked.