The conversational help and guidance experience in Microsoft finance and operations apps uses Copilot to make it fast and easy for you to learn how to work with your app. Copilot accepts natural-language queries and returns conversational results. Now, Copilot can also provide a list of likely follow-up questions to help you keep the conversation going. All you need to do is select a question to instantly see more results.

This feature runs in the Copilot sidecar user interface and is expected to support many types of searches that are available in the sidecar. It uses AI to generate the suggested questions, which it displays as a list of clickable items. When you ask a question, Copilot analyzes it and presents its natural-language response, and then adds a list of related questions that other users typically ask after a similar search.

By integrating this feature into the generative help and guidance experience, all users benefit from a more intuitive and efficient way to find information. The feature is automatically enabled and seamlessly incorporated into the Copilot sidecar, requiring no additional setup.

You can now configure data collection and assign it to specific activity types and codes to store measurements and attributes for tracking and tracing. This configuration allows you to monitor and manage various activities within the supply chain in detail.

The system also enables you to retrieve all measurements and attributes related to each serial, batch, asset, or lot number. This retrieval process ensures that all relevant data is accessible for analysis and decision-making.

Finally, you can perform a where-used search to retrieve impacted products based on specific measurements and attributes. For example, you can retrieve all impacted VIN numbers of Model Y vehicles produced between August 23, 2024, and September 25, 2024, where the painting temperature was below 80 degrees. This capability helps you identify and address potential issues in the production process.

Planning Optimization now provides the features required to support the following business processes:

• Lean manufacturing: A production philosophy aimed at maximizing value for customers while minimizing waste. It originates from the Toyota production system and focuses on continuous improvement and operational efficiency.

• Catch weight: A pricing and measurement system used primarily in the food industry, where products are sold based on their actual weight rather than a predetermined fixed weight. This is particularly important for items that naturally vary in size and weight, such as meat, seafood, and fresh produce.

• Step consumption: Manages material consumption in a way that accommodates non-linear consumption rates based on production quantities.

The new Supplier Engagement application provides a Microsoft Power Apps experience that integrates with Dynamics 365 Supply Chain Management and Dynamics 365 Finance. The app lets you manage both strategic and tactical areas of your supplier relationships, including scheduling appointments, tracking performance, scheduling supplier reviews, and managing prospective suppliers that aren't registered yet.

The experience also provides a supplier-facing portal, which is based on Microsoft Power Pages. The new supplier portal supports many facets of the supplier relationship, ranging from tactical to more operational and transactional aspects. It helps new suppliers to onboard and enables existing suppliers to engage with your company through transactions such as requests for quotation (RFQs), managed bidding, purchase orders, and invoices. The supplier portal works together with the existing vendor-collaboration capabilities of Supply Chain Management.