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).

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.

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.

The new supplier relationship management feature 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 aspects of the supplier relationship, ranging from tactical to more operational, transactional ones. 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.