Plan and prepare for Dynamics 365 Supply Chain Management in 2024 release wave 2

Important

The 2024 release wave 2 plan covers new functionalities that Microsoft plans to deliver to market from October 2024 to March 2025. In this article, 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 need to meet their supply chain requirements. 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 end-to-end processes: planning, procurement, and manufacturing traceability. We improve Planning Optimization to calculate capable-to-promise (CTP) for sales orders faster without waiting for the next master planning run. Demand planners can use forecast models with external signals to increase accuracy. We continue 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 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 efficiently manage their sales and fulfillment processes while keeping inventory available to meet the desired service levels. 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. It gives you near real-time insights into requirement 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 for your specific business needs by defining purchasing policies and workflows.

To learn more 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.