Introduction
A consumer electronics manufacturer is preparing to ramp production for a newly launched product. As demand rises, the business must secure critical components quickly across a diverse supplier base while maintaining cost targets and delivery commitments. With Dynamics 365 Supply Chain Management, procurement teams raise and route purchase requisitions for approval, convert them into purchase orders, and collaborate with vendors to confirm quantities and timelines. When goods arrive, the system updates inventory automatically, enabling production to proceed with fewer delays. End-to-end visibility across purchasing and supplier activity helps the organization manage spend, reduce supply risk, and meet customer demand with greater reliability.
The procurement capabilities in Dynamics 365 Supply Chain Management help organizations standardize and govern the procurement lifecycle. These capabilities span supplier onboarding and relationship management to purchase requisitions, purchase orders, approvals, and vendor collaboration. The result is improved control, compliance, and operational efficiency that reduces purchasing spend, strengthens supplier performance, and better aligns supply to business demand.
Learning objectives
In this module, you learn how to:
- Manage vendors.
- Describe trade agreements.
- Describe the procure-to-pay process.
- Describe purchase requisitions.
- Describe purchase orders, receipts, and returns.
- Describe charges.
- Describe Copilot support in procurement scenarios.
- Explain the capabilities of the Supplier Communications Agent.
- Describe supply risk assessment capabilities.