OVERVIEW
Dynamics 365 Supply Chain Management capabilities
Modernize your supply chain to enhance visibility, improve planning, streamline procurement, and optimize fulfillment.
- Improve forecast accuracy with AI, your own machine learning models, and external signals. Enhance forecast explainability, address outlier handling, and automate reports.
- Ensure faster replenishment cycles and shorter delivery lead times with complete MRP runs in minutes, so planners can react to demand changes in near-real time.
- Optimize inventory with dynamic stock buffers and DDMRP by using Copilot to refine fulfillment with automated inventory placement.
- Quickly gain consensus on demand plans by collaborating with all departments in the flow of work using Microsoft Teams.
- Streamline and optimize sourcing decisions with Copilot, helping buyers rapidly assess the impact of order changes and automate approvals.
- Uncover planned purchase risks with data about past supplier performance and product metrics—all in one comprehensive workspace.
- Realize maximum cost savings by automatically applying negotiated pricing based on business-defined purchase policies.
- Respond faster to supplier changes. See what’s impacted, focus on the riskiest issues, and keep orders and production moving.
- Optimize your sourcing experience with punch outs to external vendor catalogs and explore more options to expedite order placement.
- Effectively track vendor performance, lead times, and quality with embedded Microsoft Power BI templates.
- Facilitate discrete, process, and lean manufacturing with various production strategies.
- Improve quality and throughput and reduce downtime by proactively managing the shop floor with real-time production views.
- Use Internet of Things (IoT) and mixed reality to implement manufacturing processes that accelerate new product time-to-market.
- Incorporate data from external manufacturing execution systems (MES) to eliminate data silos, improve quality, and optimize production.
- Drive process improvement through detailed analysis of production costs.
- Use information such as on-hand inventory and future availability to determine fulfillment locations for sustainable deliveries.
- Accurately promise order delivery with real-time inventory and transportation data through API integration with carriers such as FedEx.
- Gain real-time insights into every order from intake to fulfillment and proactively address constraints using actionable insights.
- Integrate with delivery carriers and use their extensive drop-off locations and at-home pickups with no-box returns.
- Earn customer trust by delivering consistent automated pricing, discounts, and rebates.
- Gain insights into profitability and revenue to drive accurate and competitive pricing.
- Efficiently manage sales orders with a centralized workspace and gain real-time visibility into delayed orders.
- Establish new warehouses quickly with a warehouse management-only mode. Use wizards to replicate configurations across warehouses.
- Expedite deliveries by automating warehousing operations and increasing throughput. Improve efficiency with an intuitive and customizable mobile app.
- Increase throughput and mitigate labor shortages by augmenting staff with robots for material handling.
- Achieve on-time, in-full (OTIF) rates with insights from embedded Power BI dashboards. Use mobile app-guided pick, pack, and sort capabilities.
- Perform process mining to get real-time insights into warehouse process inefficiencies and take corrective action.
- Automate allocation and reservation to accurately promise order delivery. Connect disparate inventory feeds with plug-and-play APIs.
