Plan and prepare for Dynamics 365 Supply Chain Management in 2024 release wave 1

Overview

Dynamics 365 Supply Chain Management provides capabilities for end-to-end processes that manufacturers, distributors, consumer product groups, and retailers need to meet their supply chain requirements. The functionality ranges from product information management, forecasting, planning, inventory, sales, and procurement to complex manufacturing, asset maintenance, warehousing, and transportation management.

The investments in this release wave focus on optimizing and enhancing business processes. The enhancements give companies the agility and insight they need to navigate an increasingly complex business environment.

• Manufacturers that rely on fast capable-to-promise (CTP) for sales orders can calculate CTP without waiting for the next full master planning run.
• Improved supply planning collaboration enables planners and sellers to work on the same master plan at the same time.
• A new and efficient warehouse returns process lets you inspect goods when customers return them, handle blind receipts, put away inventory for resale or scrap it for disposal, use carrier return labels, and automatically create return orders directly from the Warehouse Management mobile app.
• General availability of warehouse-only mode lets companies use the warehouse management capabilities of Supply Chain Management on their own, without needing to configure the rest of the system.
• External systems can easily query future inventory availability for up to 180 days with available to promise (ATP) powered by the Inventory Visibility service.
• A new Inventory Visibility API lets you aggregate and synchronize external inventory changes into Supply Chain Management as adjustment journals.
• Use the Inventory Visibility service to query, post, and reserve inventory without specifying site or warehouse.
• Users responsible for approving purchase requisitions and purchase orders can now respond to approval workflow tasks directly from mobile devices.
• Copilot skills in Dynamics 365 Supply Chain Management transform users' daily tasks. The features are embedded right into the user experience and include context awareness, actionable guidance, data inquiry, report generation, and taking the next best action.
• Copilot in the Demand planning app closes the skills gap for planners by providing AI-driven guidance and enabling accurate forecasting.
• The Demand planning app becomes generally available with improvements to external signals, row-level access, time fences, analytics and insights, rolling plans, new product introductions, and end of lifecycle.

Updates to Dynamics 365 Supply Chain Management 2024 release wave 1

Investment areas

Copilot and AI innovation
Dynamics 365 Supply Chain Management provides a rich set of capabilities for supporting organizations' business processes with innovative, in-product, AI-based features that empower users to quickly unlock the full potential of supply chain management.

Inventory and logistics
By using the inventory and logistics capabilities in Dynamics 365 Supply Chain Management, you can efficiently manage your sales and fulfillment processes while keeping inventory available to meet your service level goals. These capabilities give you greater visibility, efficiency, and resiliency in your supply chain operations.

Manufacturing and asset management
The manufacturing and asset management features in Dynamics 365 Supply Chain Management help companies gain agility, efficiency, and visibility in their manufacturing and maintenance operations while maximizing asset uptime and productivity. These investments focus on increasing flexibility and agility. Manufacturers who need to comply with multiple inventory accounting practices across multiple currencies benefit from enhancements to the Global Inventory Accounting add-in. Improvements in material picking and handling last-minute manufacturing changes increase agility on the shop floor.

Planning
Demand planning uses best-in-class, ready-to-use forecast models, immersive user experiences, intelligent reports, and analytics. With demand planning, your organization can build an agile, resilient, and sustainable demand planning practice that's fueled by intelligence and collaboration. In-memory supply planning gives you the performance and scalability to get near real-time insights into requirement changes with material requirements planning and production scheduling.

Procurement
Procurement and sourcing cover all steps from identifying a need for products and services, through procurement, receipt, invoicing, and processing payments to vendors. You can configure procurement processes for your specific business needs by defining purchasing policies and workflows.

Product information management
Product information management enables companies to centrally manage information about products and product variants throughout their lifecycle. This management includes the attributes, configurations, documentation, and identifiers needed to support critical business processes. Investments in this area focus on helping companies that trade internationally navigate and verify compliance with the increasingly complex rules that govern the export of products.

Warehouse management
The warehouse management solution in Dynamics 365 Supply Chain Management provides a rich and flexible set of capabilities that you can combine and configure to support many warehouse layouts and operational scenarios. You get the same capabilities in warehouse-only mode. With this mode, a dedicated legal entity uses Supply Chain Management's warehouse management features and integrates with other legal entities or external systems.

To learn more about the entire set of capabilities being delivered during this release wave, check out the release plan for Dynamics 365 Supply Chain Management below:

For application administrators

User-impacting features to the user experience enabled automatically
User-impacting features should be reviewed by application administrators. This facilitates release change management and enables successful onboarding of new capabilities released to market. For the complete list, look for all features tagged "Users, automatically" in the release plan.

Features that must be enabled by application administrators
This release wave contains features that must be enabled or configured by administrators, makers, or business analysts to be available for their users. For the complete list, look for all features tagged "Users by admins, makers, or analysts" in the release plan.

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