Inventory and logistics

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The inventory and logistics enhancements in this release wave help businesses gain more visibility, efficiency, and resiliency in their supply chain operations.

  • Businesses using warehouse management processes (WMS) can now use the Inventory Visibility Add-in to make soft reservations and allocate inventory. Soft reservations let you track omnichannel sales demand in real time, thereby avoiding overselling, while inventory allocation lets you reserve on-hand inventory for your most important channels and corporate customers. This expanded support for WMS items enables businesses that rely on the advanced warehousing capabilities of WMS to benefit from the many business advantages brought by the soft reservation and allocation capabilities of Inventory Visibility.

  • Organizations often want to track real-time consumption within the quantities allocated to specific stores, channels, or markets in support of promotional events, new product launches, and so on. This ensures that immediate reallocation, follow-up replenishment decisions, and associated actions can be taken. Businesses can now track real-time consumption of allocated quantities. The Inventory Visibility service can deduct soft reserved quantities from allocated quantities and calculate available-for-reservation quantities within a specific allocation.

  • Businesses using Inventory Visibility can now obtain a full inventory summary across channels and data sources from the Inventory summary entity in Dataverse. This opens a wide range of possibilities for businesses to use inventory summary data, such as for inventory analysis in Power BI (or your own analytics tool), field service integration, or distribution to downstream business partners.