Plan and prepare for Dynamics 365 Supply Chain Management in 2022 release wave 2
Important
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Important
The 2022 release wave 2 plan covers all new functionalities planned to be delivered to market from October 2022 to March 2023. 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 (such as procure-to-pay and quote-to-cash) that manufacturers, distributors, consumer product groups, and retailers require to meet their supply chain management needs. Functionality ranges from product information management, planning, inventory, sales, and procurement to complex manufacturing, asset maintenance, warehousing, and transportation management.
Increasing resiliency continues to be a priority for organizations as they emerge from the current crisis and reset strategies to anticipate and minimize disruptions. The investments in this release help organizations balance costs and investments while creating a resilient and agile supply chain that ensures business continuity.
New features and improvements introduced during 2022 release wave 2 include:
- Supply-risk analytics to help businesses identify and mitigate the risks associated with their sourcing strategies.
- Improved support for supply forecasts and multiple external vendors in Planning Optimization helps organizations diversify their sourcing strategies.
- Planning Optimization enhancements enable manufacturers in the process industry to shorten their planning cycles.
- Simplified, guided implementation and configuration experiences help to drive down the time and effort required to implement warehouse management. They also enable companies to rapidly reconfigure their supply chains in response to changing demand patterns.
- Flexibility and mobility in the warehouse packing process allow warehouse workers to complete packing operations using the Warehouse Management mobile app running on a handheld barcode scanner.
- Enhanced allocation capabilities through Inventory Visibility help organizations preallocate limited stocks to prioritized channels, regions, or customer groups. Real-time tracking of consumption within those allocated quantities lets organizations control oversell and make on-time replenishment decisions in support of promotions, special events, new product introductions, and so on.
- Multinational companies can now make product information accessible in each user's own language, thereby reducing language barriers.
- Sensor Data Intelligence now supports new asset management scenarios and provides enhanced opportunities for adding customizations and extensions.
Updates to Dynamics 365 Supply Chain Management 2022 release wave 2
Investment areas
Inventory and logistics
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.
Procurement
Investments in the procurement and sourcing area help organizations be more agile and resilient in their supply chain operations. In particular, these improvements make it easier for businesses to identify and mitigate the risks associated with their sourcing strategies.
A new supply-risk assessment dashboard makes it easy for businesses to identify and understand risks of sourcing shortages and delays. This helps businesses take proactive actions to balance cost and resilience as they optimize their supply chains.
Help businesses build resilience in their supply chain by diversifying their sources of supply. That is, make it possible to source products and materials from multiple vendors, both when ordering manually or when driven by master planning.
Warehouse management
The warehouse management solution provides a rich and flexible set of capabilities that can be combined and configured to support a plethora of warehouse layouts and operational scenarios. The enhancements in this release focus on simplifying the configuration experience, reducing implementation time, and providing insights into the performance and usage of the warehouse management system.
- Customers shipping large items or having large packing areas will benefit from the new mobile packing experience, which allows warehouse workers to move around while performing packing activities using the Warehouse Management mobile app.
- The new rapid implementation and configuration experience dramatically reduces implementation time and cost for most customers. In many cases, it also enables warehouse professionals to configure and maintain the warehouse management solution without assistance from specialized consultants.
- Businesses have easy access to insights into the performance and usage of their warehouse management system through Azure Application Insights. This enables effective self-service monitoring and diagnosis of problems without direct involvement from Microsoft.
Planning
With Planning Optimization, companies experience significantly improved performance and scalability, which enables near-real-time insights into requirement changes. The enhancements delivered in this release wave add support for more process manufacturing scenarios, increase planning accuracy, and help users respond quickly to changes without disrupting the overall plan.
- Manufacturers can now use Planning Optimization in process manufacturing scenarios that include batch orders, co-products, and by-products.
- Batch disposition codes are now honored by Planning Optimization during materials requirement planning. This grants businesses greater control over how inventory is allocated and whether it is available for reservation.
- Planning Optimization can now take into account supply forecasts to enhance the quality and accuracy of the generated material requirements plans.
- Demand from sales quotations can now be considered by Planning Optimization for enhancing the quality and accuracy of the generated material requirements plans.
- It's now possible to have Planning Optimization respect finite material availability when automatically scheduling actual, firmed production orders. This ensures that planned production orders won't be delayed due to material shortages.
Product information management
In the area of product information management, this release wave brings improvements that enable users in each legal entity to work with product information in their local language, which is an important benefit for multinational companies.
Manufacturing
The manufacturing enhancements delivered in this release wave focus on driving increased agility on the shop floor—for example, by using sensor data from machines and other equipment on the production floor to drive business processes in Dynamics 365 Supply Chain Management.
- Enhancements to the Sensor Data Intelligence offering add new asset management scenarios for downtime registrations and asset counter updates, and make it possible for businesses to customize and extend the supported scenarios.
- Significantly reduce the latency some users may experience in the production report-as-finished process by separating the physical registration from any derived financial updates.
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. |
| Product updates | Stay up to date on latest product updates. |
| Release calendar | Know important release milestones. |
| 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. |