What's New in SCM -

Wave 1 2021 Edition

TechTalk

Presenter: Nicole Gump

Senior Program Manager

Co-presenter/Q&A: Aaron Murch

Senior R&D Solution Architect

Agenda 1. Overview by topic area

2. Focus on inventory & logistics

3. Q&A

Overview

Overview

Asset Management• Incremental improvements to the scheduling and execution of planned maintenance work

• Ensures required maintenance work is performed at the right time (e.g., based on usage sensor data)

• Enables billing for maintenance performed

Inventory and Logistics• New features help organizations gain visibility, resiliency, and efficiency in their supply chains

Manufacturing• Enables execution of mission-critical manufacturing processes without interruption and at scale

• Builds resilience into key manufacturing processes by extending your cloud hub with edge scale units

• Enhances the production floor execution interface, including asset management integration

Overview Cont.

Planning• Introduces MRP II capabilities in Planning Optimization, including infinite scheduling

• Incremental improvements to Planning Optimization leverage input from purchase requisitions and

tiered demand forecast models to give planners more flexibility in controlling both lead time buffers

and the planning horizon

Product Information Management• Incremental improvements simplify the task of ensuring product master data is complete

• Performance enhancements for generating product variants

• ECM support for existing products

Inventory & Logistics

Inventory & Logistics

Feature Highlights

1. Small Parcel Shipping (SPS)

2. Material Handling Equipment Interface (MHAX)

3. Landed Cost (Inbound Transportation Management)

4. Parallel Wave Allocation (Default)

5. Schedule Warehouse Work Creation (Parallelization of Work Step)

6. Warehouse Execution on Cloud & Edge Scale Units (WES)

7. Warehouse Management Mobile Application (WMA)

8. Inventory Performance & Archiving

9. Rebate Management

10. Single-click SO Confirmation

Small Parcel Shipping (SPS)

Feature name: Small parcel shipping

• When this feature is enabled, it allows D365 SCM TMS to integrate with shipping carriers and send details about a packed container and receive a rate, tracking number and shipping label in return.

• CAVEAT: Integration to each shipping carrier’s API must be developed independently or acquired from an ISV. Microsoft does provide a demo rating engine for use, which is available for download on GitHub.

• This feature will be covered further in a separate TechTalk.

Material Handling Equipment Interface (MHAX)

Feature name: Material handling equipment interface

• When this feature is enabled, it allows D365 SCM WMS to integrate with automated warehouse systems to process work generated by the Warehouse Management module.

• NOTE: The ‘Material handling equipment interface’ license must also be enabled to use this feature, which requires putting the environment into maintenance mode.

Landed Cost (Inbound Transportation Management)

Feature/Module name: Landed cost

• This module provides the ability to define shipments of

inbound orders and track goods in transit throughout

their journey. It also provides the power to calculate item

costs associated with procurement and transportation

based on a rich set of allocation rules.

• CAVEAT: If the organization is using or planning on using

the Transportation Management module in conjunction

with Landed Cost, please review the following Docs

article: Landed cost vs. Transportation management.

• This module is enabled through Feature Management

under the same feature name as the module.

• This module will be covered further in a separate TechTalk.

Parallel Wave Allocation

Feature name: Wave parallelization for Allocate Wave method

• Starting with version 10.0.17, this feature is made mandatory (turned on automatically). You won't be able to turn off the feature, but you can still manually revert the settings if you require the previous functionality.

• All warehouses will be configured with the allocateWave method set to run in parallel, and all waves will be set to process in batch.

• This feature is intended to enhance the performance of the wave process.

Schedule Warehouse Work Creation

Feature name: Schedule work creation

• When this feature is enabled and the new wave process

method is manually added to a wave template, it replaces

the standard createWork wave process method with the

new WHSScheduleWorkCreationWaveStepMethod, which

enables parallel processing of work creation.

• NOTE: This feature is dependent on the ‘Organization-

wide work blocking’ feature also being enabled.

Additionally, there is a ‘Organization-wide "Schedule work

creation" wave method’ feature which automates the

feature set-up across all legal entities.

• This feature is intended to enhance the performance of

the wave process.

Warehouse Execution on Cloud & Edge Scale Units

Add-in name: Cloud scale unit

• PREREQUISITE: Hub and scale unit have been deployed

with the warehouse management workload.

• The ‘Incremental enhancements for warehouse execution

capabilities with scale units’ feature further enhances the

capabilities of the WES workloads to better fulfill

organizations' growing requirements, including:• Outbound picking/loading for transfers

• Label printing, including wave labels

• Cluster picking

• Wave processing

• Work record updates

• The ‘Warehouse execution with edge scale units on your

custom hardware’ feature improves the resilience of your

warehouse processes using edge scale units running on

physical appliances located on your own warehouse floor.• Devices connected to the edge scale unit will have the same

capabilities as when working against a cloud scale unit.

Warehouse Management Mobile Application

Feature name: User settings, icons, and step titles for the new warehouse app

• This feature adds settings that apply to the new,

redesigned warehouse app. The new settings allow you to

view and set default app settings for each specific device

model and/or user. This feature also adds the back-end

changes needed to support icons for menus and actions,

and to add illustrations and helpful titles for each step in a

process.

• NOTE: This is a separate application which can run side-

by-side with the old application.

• This feature has been covered in a separate TechTalk,

which can be found here: Warehouse Management

mobile app in Microsoft Dynamics 365 Supply Chain

Management | March 2, 2021 - Microsoft Dynamics Blog.

Inventory Performance & Archiving

Feature name: Inventory transactions archive

• With this feature, you can move your old inventory transactions to a separate archive, which helps improve system performance while preserving your ability to view the archived transactions.

• PREREQUISTE: Inventory transactions can be archived only during periods where the following conditions are met:• The ledger period must be closed.

• Inventory closing must be run on or after the to-

period date of the archive.

• The period must be at least one year before the

from-period date of the archive.

• There must not be any existing inventory

recalculations.

Rebate Management

Feature/Module name: Rebate management

• This module is an updated offering of the rebates and royalty processing feature for D365 SCM. Use it to create contracts, deals, or agreements between your company and your customers and vendors to facilitate the calculation of rebates, deductions, and royalties. Track and maintain rebates and deductions transactions in a central location, where all relevant users can create, review, and process them effectively.

• This module is enabled through Feature Management under the same feature name as the module.

Single-Click SO Confirmation

Feature name: Single click sales order confirmation

• This feature lets you confirm sales orders with a single click. It enhances the sales order list and details pages by adding a new menu item that lets you create a sales order confirmation directly, without requiring you to go to the sales order confirmation posting page.

• NOTE: The command creates the sales order confirmation using the order confirmation settings that you used most recently (not including batch processing).

• Demo

Q&A

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