Plan and prepare for Dynamics 365 Supply Chain Management in 2024 release wave 2
Important
The 2024 release wave 2 plan covers all new functionalities planned to be delivered to market from October 2024 to March 2025. 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, transportation management, and costing.
This release wave focuses on copilots in three areas of plan-to-deliver e2e processes: planning, procurement, and manufacturing-traceability. We will improve Planning Optimization to calculate capable-to-promise (CTP) for sales orders faster and without waiting for the next master planning run. Demand planners can use forecast models with external signals to increase accuracy. We will also continue working to improve and expand business processes to help companies deal with complex business environments.
Updates to Dynamics 365 Supply Chain Management 2024 release wave 2
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 rapidly unlock the full potential of 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. These capabilities help businesses gain more visibility, efficiency, and resiliency in their supply chain operations.
Planning
Demand planning is powered by best-in-class, out-of-the-box forecast models, immersive user experiences, intelligent reports, and analytics. It empowers organizations to build an agile, resilient, and sustainable demand planning practice that's fueled by intelligence and collaboration. In-memory supply planning offers performance and scalability to get near real-time insights into requirements 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 with vendors. Procurement processes can be configured toward specific business needs by defining purchasing policies and workflows.
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.
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. |