Plan and prepare for Dynamics 365 Supply Chain Management in 2025 release wave 1

Important

The 2025 release wave 1 plan covers all new functionalities that Microsoft plans to deliver to the market from April 2025 to September 2025. In this article, you find the product overview and what's new and planned for Dynamics 365 Supply Chain Management.

Overview

Dynamics 365 Supply Chain Management offers comprehensive capabilities for end-to-end processes that manufacturers, distributors, consumer product groups, and retailers need to meet their supply chain requirements. Its functionality spans product information management, forecasting, planning, inventory, sales, and procurement, as well as complex manufacturing, asset maintenance, warehousing, transportation management, and costing.

The 2025 release wave 1 introduces several key enhancements:

• Demand Planning: Copilot, generative insights, and cell-level explainability features improve forecasting accuracy.
• Manufacturing: New features include optimized testing strategies and digitized records for quality management. Copilot-assisted updates to manufacturing planning data enhancements lead to more accurate production processes.
• Planning Optimization: Integrates lean manufacturing principles, catch weight, and step consumption features for better management of material use.
• Contract Lifecycle Management: Supports integration with external systems for efficient management of supplier contracts.
• Vendor Rebate Management: Updates reconciliation and resubmission workflows, so vendor transactions are more flexible.

Updates to Dynamics 365 Supply Chain Management 2025 release wave 1

Investment areas

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

Inventory and logistics
The inventory and logistics capabilities of Dynamics 365 Supply Chain Management help businesses manage their sales and fulfillment processes efficiently while keeping inventory available to meet the service levels they want. These capabilities give businesses 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. These features help companies maximize asset uptime and productivity. Investments focus on increasing flexibility and agility. Manufacturers benefit from enhancements to the Global Inventory Accounting add-in if they need to comply with multiple inventory accounting practices across multiple currencies. Improvements in material picking and handling last-minute manufacturing changes increase agility on the shop floor.

Planning
Demand planning uses 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 so you can 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. You can configure procurement processes to meet specific business needs by defining purchasing policies and workflows.

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 can use Supply Chain Management's warehouse management features and integrate with other legal entities or external systems.

For more information about the capabilities delivered during this release wave, see the release plan for Dynamics 365 Supply Chain Management:

Check out the release plan

For application administrators

User-impacting features to the user experience enabled automatically
Application administrators review user-impacting features. This review process helps manage release changes and supports successful onboarding of new capabilities. For the complete list, see all features tagged Users, automatically in the release plan.

Features that application administrators enable
This release wave includes features that administrators, makers, or business analysts must enable or configure for their users. For the complete list, see 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	Learn 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.