Plan and prepare for Dynamics 365 Supply Chain Management in 2023 release wave 1
Important
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Important
The 2023 release wave 1 plan covers all new functionalities planned to be delivered to market from April 2023 to September 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 that manufacturers, distributors, consumer product groups, and retailers require to meet their supply chain needs. Functionality ranges from product information management, planning, inventory, sales, and procurement to complex manufacturing, asset maintenance, warehousing, and transportation management.
Improving the agility and efficiency of front-line workers continues to be a priority in this release wave, with new and reimagined experiences for Inventory Visibility and Asset Management that simplify daily tasks and deliver actionable insights where and when needed. Warehouse management workers enjoy incremental usability and productivity enhancements in the Warehouse Management mobile app, including the added support for iOS devices.
Businesses with sales processes spanning Dynamics 365 Sales and Supply Chain Management benefit from true end-to-end process integration for improved accuracy and efficiency. Omnichannel sales strategies get a boost with new and improved ways of managing attribute-based pricing, integrated soft reservations, and improved order promising capabilities with an extended available-to-promise (ATP) horizon.
Discrete manufacturers that struggle to comply with both generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP) and local statutory accounting principles can now leverage the Global Inventory Accounting Add-in to supplement their statutory inventory accounting practice with parallel, standard-cost-based inventory accounting practices in multiple currencies. Manufacturers with a mix of discrete and process manufacturing processes can onboard Planning Optimization, which provides improved performance, scalability, and near-real-time insights into requirement changes.
Organizations seek increased agility and resilience through optimizing their fulfillment capabilities and warehouse operations. This release brings a simplified warehouse configuration experience that will reduce implementation time. It also provides insights into the performance and usage of the warehouse management system, which organizations can use for optimizing warehouse operations.
Updates to Dynamics 365 Supply Chain Management 2023 release wave 1
Investment areas
Inventory and logistics
The inventory and logistics capabilities of Dynamics 365 Supply Chain Management enable businesses to manage their sales and fulfillment processes effectively and efficiently, while ensuring inventory availability that matches the desired service levels. Investments in this area continue to focus on helping businesses gain more visibility, efficiency, and resiliency in their supply chain operations. The enhancements in this release wave include:
- Manage attribute-based omnichannel sales pricing to effectively plan and manage omnichannel sales prices with price attributes on customers, products, and order segments.
- Evaluate costs in discrete manufacturing using standard cost with the Global Inventory Accounting Add-in for Microsoft Dynamics 365 Supply Chain Management.
- Calculate available to promise (ATP) up to three months in advance with Inventory Visibility. Increase visibility into your future inventory statuses and order-promising capacity. Allow for order promising with fulfillment dates further out into the future.
- Make soft reservations for Supply Chain Management sales orders. Use Inventory Visibility to make soft reservations directly from a sales order, thereby maintaining a sole source of truth for omnichannel fulfillment and inventory inquiries.
- A reimagined Inventory Visibility user experience lets you manage and update data more efficiently and provides near-real-time insights into current and projected inventory levels and availability.
- Prospect-to-cash scenario enhancements across Supply Chain Management and Dynamics 365 Sales enable true end-to-end process integration in the prospect-to-cash flow. Improving the entire process from quotation to invoice helps organizations drive efficiencies in their sales and fulfillment processes, improve accuracy, and reduce lead times.
- Archive inventory transactions and sales orders. Businesses running large databases can establish rules for archiving data from their day-to-day working environment into a data lake, which allows for historical reporting, auditing, machine learning, and more. This improves performance and usability in the day-to-day working environment while lowering operating costs.
Warehouse Management
The warehouse management solution in Dynamics 365 Supply Chain Management provides a rich and flexible set of capabilities that can be combined and configured to support many 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. Warehouse workers using the Warehouse Management mobile app will experience usability and productivity enhancements, improved GS1 barcode support, improved packing functionality, support for iOS devices, and more.
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 while maximizing asset uptime and productivity. Investments in this area continue to focus on improving the user experience for greater agility and efficiency of front-line workers.
This release wave delivers a new and reimagined mobile experience for maintenance operations that simplifies daily tasks and presents relevant information and insights when and where they are needed most. In manufacturing, supervisors will get enhanced capabilities for checking availability of materials before releasing production orders to the shop floor.
Procurement
Investments in the procurement and sourcing area continue to be targeted at making organizations more resilient in their supply chain operations. In this release, the focus is on protecting the accuracy and integrity of vendor bank account information.
Product information management
Product information management enables companies to centrally manage information about products and product variants throughout their lifecycle, including the attributes, configurations, documentation, and identifiers needed for supporting key business processes. Investments in this area continue to focus on driving efficiencies for companies managing large product portfolios across large organizations.
The enhancements in this release wave let companies share released product data across legal entities, which reduces data duplication and simplifies maintenance.
Planning
Planning Optimization provides significantly improved performance and scalability, which enables near real-time insights into requirement changes. The enhancements delivered in this release wave add support for additional scenarios that address the needs of manufacturers using a combination of discrete and light-process manufacturing. Other enhancements help manufacturers (especially make-to-order manufacturers) to manage schedule changes more effectively.
Copilot and AI innovation
In-product Copilot features, which are based on generative AI, make it possible for users to efficiently handle large amounts of changes to purchase orders, assess the impact and risk of those changes, and optimize sourcing decisions.
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. |