Supply chain
An overview of the key features
Integrate your sales and purchasing processes
Integrate sales and purchasing with your logistics, production and warehouse management to ensure maximum transparency throughout the entire supply chain and to manage all processes effectively. Manage decentralised organisations using intercompany and multi-site functions.
Material and capacity planning
Optimise your materials planning whilst simultaneously planning your capacities, which are always tailored to your current strategy. Sales forecasts and production planning can be analysed in just a few clicks, providing up-to-date planning data at all times. This enables you to calculate availability and delivery commitments (Available-to-Promise [ATP] and Capable-to-Promise [CTP]) based on the current production situation. You can then schedule the required work plans and individual operations directly within the system for implementation.
Create accurate sales forecasts to ensure your business’s success.
Check availability and delivery status based on current production conditions so that you can always make efficient decisions.
Optimise your business strategies in line with your capacity to avoid poor investments.
Product management for goods and services
Microsoft Dynamics 365 Supply Chain Management enables you to manage return processes and the various options regarding which customers may return items and which items are eligible for return. You can also configure the categorisation of returns based on return reasons and disposition methods.
Your benefits
- Clearly plan for varying return conditions
- Faster allocation and processing of returns
Product programme planning, including delivery date commitments
Product programme planning in Microsoft Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations enables delivery date planning using operation or bottleneck scheduling. Based on this, Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations calculates data for availability and delivery commitments (Available-to-Promise [ATP] and Capable-to-Promise [CTP]).
Your benefits
- Multi-site planning simplified
- Individual planning for diverse products and services
Forecasts
Supply Chain Management forecasts include projections for sales and purchasing planning. The generated forecasts can be used—based on specific allocation keys—to assign figures to individual items and periods.
Your benefits
- Standard reports containing all meaningful KPIs are quickly accessible
Intercompany
Processes can be defined for a corporate entity across various business units, branches, or distribution centres, including the automatic creation of all associated sales and purchase orders.
Your benefits
- Enables a one-time definition of all standard processes
- Clear customisation options for process professionalisation
