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

Important

The 2024 release wave 1 plan covers all new functionalities planned to be delivered to market from April 2024 to September 2024. In this article, you'll find the product overview and what's new and planned for Dynamics 365 Supply Chain Management.

Overview

Dynamics 365 Supply Chain Management provides capabilities for end-to-end processes that manufacturers, distributors, consumer product groups, and retailers require to meet their supply chain needs. 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 to provide companies with the agility and insight needed 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 to complete.
• 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 allows goods to be inspected on return from customers, blind receipts, putaway of inventory for resale or scrapped for disposal, carrier return labels, and automatic creation of return orders directly from the Warehouse Management mobile app.
• General availability of warehouse-only mode allows companies to use the warehouse management capabilities of Supply Chain Management on their own, without needing to configure the rest of the system.
• Allow external systems to 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 allows you to 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 having to specify 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. The breadth of functionality means that, like most business applications, users require initial training to get started with the application and need a fair amount of experience with the product before they become proficient. With innovative in-product, generative AI-based contextual help, users are empowered to rapidly unlock the full potential of Dynamics 365 Supply Chain Management.

Inventory and logistics
The inventory and logistics capabilities of Dynamics 365 Supply Chain Management enable businesses to manage their sales and fulfillment processes efficiently while ensuring inventory availability that matches the desired service levels. Investments in this area continue to focus on helping businesses gain more visibility, efficiency, and resiliency in their 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. Investments are focused on increasing flexibility and agility. Manufacturers having requirements for compliance with multiple inventory accounting practices across multiple currencies continue to benefit from enhancements to the Global Inventory Accounting Add-in. Improvements in material picking and handling last-minute manufacturing changes increase the agility on the shop floor.

Planning
Planning Optimization provides significantly improved performance and scalability, which enables near real-time insights into requirement changes. We introduce a next-generation intelligent demand planning capability that is powered by best-in-class forecasting algorithms and models, offers immersive user experiences, and provides intelligent reports and analytics.

Procurement
Investments in the procurement and sourcing area continue to be targeted at making organizations more agile and resilient in their supply chain operations.

Product information management
Product information management enables companies to centrally manage information about products and product variants throughout their lifecycle, including the attributes, configurations, documentation, and identifiers needed for supporting critical business processes. Investments in this area are focused on helping companies that trade internationally navigate and verify compliance with the increasingly complex rules governing 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 can be combined and configured to support many warehouse layouts and operational scenarios.

Investments continue to focus on driving efficiencies in warehouse operations through optimization and automation of key processes, including counting, customer returns, product receipts, and re-waving of orders. New interfaces and streamlined processes allow companies to deploy Dynamics 365 Supply Chain Management and use only the warehouse management capabilities, making these broadly available to companies using third-party ERP or order-management 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:

Check out the release plan

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.

Get the most out of Supply Chain Management

Helpful links	Description
Release plan	View all capabilities included in the release.
Licensing	Improve your understanding of how to license Supply Chain Management.
Product documentation	Find documentation for Supply Chain Management.
User community	Engage with Supply Chain Management experts and peers in the community.
Upcoming events	Find and register for in-person and online events.
Product trials	Get started with Supply Chain Management.