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.

The key capabilities that provide approval and reconciliation flexibility include:

• A new rebate management workflow-resubmission process for vendors.
• Enhanced posting profiles that allow transactions to be reconciled according to the purchased-from vendor rather than using fixed, predefined vendors.
• Improved rebate output for vendor invoices by consolidating multiple ledger lines for the same vendor into a single vendor line with several ledger lines.

Advanced quality management integrates throughout the Supply Chain Management solution. Key features include:

• Optimized testing strategies: Flexible sampling plans, skip-lot testing, quality-order creation triggers, sample management, instrument calibration, and acceptable quality limits (AQL) testing.
• Regulatory compliance: Approved customer lists, customer-specific certificates of analysis (COA), and enhancements to electronic signatures.
• Digitized manufacturing for precision and compliance: Electronic batch records, production dispensing.
• Continuous improvement and risk mitigation: Corrective and preventive actions (CAPA) management and enhancements to non-conformance.
• Enhanced user experience: Simplified entry of quality test results and new workspaces for quality management.

Demand planning in Supply Chain Management helps you plan and forecast demand based on various data sources and signals. The app now provides capabilities that enhance the accuracy of the demand forecast to better help you optimize your supply chain and boost your financial outcomes.

All the new capabilities are enabled by default. You can use each of them as needed with your new and existing forecasts to help improve their accuracy. The new capabilities include:

• Assortment planning: Forecast from top to bottom by allocating demand across different dimensions (such as products, customers, or channels) based on an allocation basis that you define.
• Time freeze: Establish periods during which forecast calculations set to run continuously won't update their baseline forecasts.
• Forecast with signals: Now allows you to define multiple input signals and lets you choose to between the Prophet forecast algorithm, XGBoost forecast algorithm, or best-fit forecast model (which automatically calculates both XGBoost and Prophet results for each combination of dimensions and choose the best one for the final forecast).
• Auto detect seasonality: Automatically detect seasonality patterns for all forecast algorithms. The system runs an algorithm to detect distinct seasonality patterns across different dimensions (such as products and locations).

Contract lifecycle management (CLM) is a key element of the source-to-pay process. Dynamics 365 Supply Chain Management now provides a platform that makes it easy to integrate it with an external CLM system. The feature supports out-of-the-box rules and integration points for interacting with CLM. The integration supports purchase agreements and non-disclosure agreements and leverages master data from Supply Chain Management.