7 upcoming features included in release plans
Automate procure-to-pay tasks with the supplier communications agent
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For many businesses, a large part of the procurement process is still manual. This includes collaborating and following up with vendors, manually updating purchase orders, and managing change requests. The supplier communications agent helps purchasers save time and be more productive by automating manual and repetitive tasks based on user-defined rules. The agent helps you achieve a resilient and efficient supply chain and increase procurement productivity.
Finance and operations apps already offer innovative in-product, AI-based, contextual help with Copilot. Now, you can easily keep the conversation going with a single click, by selecting among a short list of likely follow-up questions that are automatically generated by Copilot based on your previous queries. Just select a question to receive related information without needing to formulate a new query, which makes the process of learning how to use the application more efficient and intuitive.
Gain greater control over the recalculation process by choosing whether to exclude or include specific types of transactions as needed. This can help ensure report accuracy and regulation compliance for some regions. Additionally, this feature can help save time and increase efficiency by streamlining the recalculation process and reducing the need for manual intervention.
Effective quality assurance and issue mitigation help businesses gain customer trust. When quality assurance professionals find an issue, it can take time for them to identify the cause. They need to trace the history of manufacturing activities that went into producing the faulty items, identify specific batch/serial numbers of the relevant components and finished products, and combine this information with related data such as manufacturing time, unexpected consumption patterns, and more. Dynamics 365 Supply Chain Management now includes a copilot that applies artificial intelligence to collect and summarize all the relevant information in just a few seconds.
Give customers realistic dates for when you can promise specific goods. For each sales line, you can provide a date that takes account of existing on-hand inventory, production capacity, and transportation times.
Master planning is a complex process that considers a wide variety of factors when deciding which goods and materials need to be ordered to keep the business running smoothly. Multiple supply planners, production planners, material managers, and other stakeholders are involved in and affected by the process. As a result, users working within and across teams often need to collaborate while entering relevant data and preparing and reviewing each plan.
To collaborate effectively, all contributors need access to the same, up-to-date information. Dynamics 365 Supply Chain Management now provides greatly improved support for master planning collaboration because it continuously recalculates your master plans, refreshing them after each edit. All planners and other stakeholders will nearly always see the latest, fully optimized planning results as they evaluate and update each plan.
With flexible integration to external contract lifecycle management systems, businesses can efficiently manage the creation and management of contract lifecycles with suppliers in their source-to-pay process. Purchase agreements stipulated in the contracts integrate seamlessly with operations such as applying the correct terms and pricing.