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Ali Raza Zaidi

A practitioner’s musings on Dynamics 365 Finance and Operations

Supply Chain Management Guide

Create and manage products

  • Create and release products and product variants
  • Create and apply product templates
  • Create BOMs and BOM versions
  • Create and configure category hierarchies
  • Create and manage product states during the life cycle of a product
  • Create product attributes

Configure prerequisites for products

  • Configure storage, tracking, and product dimension groups
  • Create item model groups
  • Describe use cases for item groups
  • Configure reservation hierarchies
  • Configure unit sequence groups

Configure additional product details

  • Create and assign bar codes and Global Trade Item Number (GTIN) codes
  • Configure product unit conversions
  • Configure default order settings
  • Configure product filter codes for warehouse operations

Manage inventory pricing and costing

  • Describe costing versions for standard and planned costs
  • Describe how price groups constrain pricing
  • Configure items with standard costs
  • Configure default item prices, purchase prices, and discounts in trade agreements

Configure inventory management

  • Create and manage inventory dimensions
  • Configure Inventory management parameters and journals
  • Configure inventory value reports
  • Configure ABC classifications

Manage and process inventory activities

  • Create and process journals, including bill of materials, item arrival, transfer, movement, inventory adjustment, and counting, journals
  • Create and process transfer orders
  • Describe the inventory closing and adjustment process
  • Configure and perform inventory closings and adjustments
  • Apply inventory blocking manually
  • Create batch disposition codes

Manage quality

  • Configure and process nonconformances
  • Configure quality associations
  • Configure components for the quality control process
  • Process quality orders
  • Process quarantine orders
  • Describe use cases for inventory blocking using a quality order

Configure asset management

  • Create and manage work orders
  • Create and configure assets
  • View and manage capacity for work orders
  • Configure work order settings
  • Schedule preventive maintenance
  • Reactive maintenance

Implement procurement and sourcing

  • Create and maintain vendors
  • Describe use cases for procurement workflows
  • Create and manage purchase requisitions, requests for quotation (RFQs), and purchase orders (POs)
  • Finalize the Purchase Order- D365 Finance and Operations
  • Create purchase agreements and vendor rebates
  • Configure and process consignment inventory
  • Manage over and under deliveries and delivery schedules
  • Configure procurement categories, charge codes, and purchasing policies
  • Configure vendor collaboration features
  • Create and process vendor returns

Implement landed cost

  • Describe landed cost concepts and terminology
  • Identify use cases for transportation management module and landed cost modules

Implement common sales and marketing features

  • Create and maintain customers
  • Describe sales order reservations and order promising
  • Configure sales agreements
  • Configure and process sales quotations, sales orders, and sales returns
  • Configure sales groups, commissions
  • Configure and manage discounts and price groups
  • Configure and process intercompany orders
  • Configure customer rebates

Configure warehouse management

  • Create sites, warehouses, locations, location formats, location profiles, location types, and zones
  • Create and manage warehouse workers
  • Configure work policies and work breaks
  • Implement location directives
  • Configure inventory statuses
  • Configure wave, load, and work templates
  • Configure mobile device menus, menu items, and display settings
  • Create and print labels, including product, wave, and license plate labels

Perform warehouse management processes

  • Describe the replenishment process and cross-docking
  • Describe the capabilities of the load planning workbench
  • Configure and process inventory movements
  • Create cycle counting work and perform cycle counting
  • Process inbound and outbound orders
  • Update inventory statuses
  • Configure containerization and packaging options

Implement transportation management

  • Configure shipping carriers and carrier groups
  • Perform planning and executing of loads and shipments
  • Configure and generate freight bills and invoices
  • Configure route plans and guides
  • Configure route and rate engines
  • Configure and use dock appointment scheduling
  • Reconcile freight by using manual or automatic processes

Configure master planning and forecasting

  • Describe the various types of forecasting available
  • Configure Planning Optimization Add-in for Microsoft Dynamics 365 Supply Chain Management
  • Describe planning optimization fit analysis results
  • Set up coverage groups and item coverage
  • Configure and maintain master planning parameters, master plans, and forecast plans
  • Define positive and negative days
  • Define action messages, delay messages, and time fences
  • Configure period templates

Manage master plans

  • Run master planning
  • View and process planned orders
  • Set up and use the Supply Schedule form
  • Configure safety margins
  • Configure and process safety stock journals

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