Category: Microsoft Dynamics AX/365

Client Announcement | August 2026 What this independent Microsoft validation means for organizations choosing a Dynamics 365 partner. The badge isn't the story. The evidence behind it is. FINANCE SUPPLY CHAIN AI BUSINESS SOLUTIONS Microsoft specialization Microsoft specialization Solutions Partner badge Choosing a Dynamics 365 partner is a consequential decision. You are trusting that firm with the systems that run financial operations, supply chain execution, manufacturing, inventory and customer commitments....

LOGAN CONSULTING · AUGUST 2026  |  Companion to Logan’s free Field Guide to Dynamics 365 Agents Executive Perspective The honest agent list is shorter, and more useful, than the hype As of August 2026, Microsoft’s finance-and-operations overview documents one named first-party AI agent experience for Dynamics 365 Supply Chain Management: the Supplier Communications Agent. Microsoft’s detailed SCM documentation presents the broader managed experience as the Procurement Agent, combining supplier communications...

The month-end close is often treated as a calendar problem. Add people, move deadlines, and hope the reconciliations arrive on time. In reality, most close pressure is accumulated operational debt. Exceptions sit unresolved, supporting detail lives in spreadsheets, customer communication stays in Outlook, and explanations get assembled after the result is already late. This is Part 3 of Logan Consulting's Dynamics 365 Agent Series, a practical field guide to the...

Logan Consulting · August 2026 — Companion to Logan's free Field Guide to Dynamics 365 Agents Procurement's shadow transaction layer is email Most purchase orders are born in an ERP. Many of their most consequential changes are not. A supplier's "we can ship 600, not 1,000" message lands in a mailbox, and the real work begins: identify the order, interpret the change, update the record, trace the consequences, notify the...

Microsoft's first wave of Dynamics 365 agents was easy to summarize: ten new digital coworkers across sales, service, finance and supply chain. That headline did not survive contact with the product roadmap. This is Part 1 of Logan Consulting's Dynamics 365 Agent Field Guide, a practical overview of the Microsoft-provided AI agents you can deploy across Dynamics 365, and what "out of the box" really requires. 25 named agent experiences,...

What version 10.0.49 quietly retires, and the mandatory changes that are more likely to catch you off guard. Figure 1. A deprecation notice is easy to ignore right up until it isn't. EXECUTIVE TAKEAWAY Dynamics 365 Finance and Supply Chain Management version 10.0.49 retires Global Inventory Accounting on a path to end of support in July 2027, and removes a Copilot preview capability with no direct replacement. The bigger near-term...

  Figure 1. Platform Update 74 marks the end of Visual Studio 2022 support for X++ development. EXECUTIVE TAKEAWAY Microsoft is retiring Visual Studio 2022 support for X++ development starting with Platform Update 74. If your organization is planning an upgrade to 10.0.50, your development team needs a plan for Visual Studio 2026 before that upgrade lands, not after. Microsoft has announced an important change for Dynamics 365 Finance &...

Figure 1. The same inventory lifecycle can produce two accurate numbers at different stages. EXECUTIVE TAKEAWAY An inventory-to-GL difference is not automatically a posting error. Reconciliation begins by defining what each number represents, then following the transaction from physical update to financial posting and cost settlement. The mismatch that starts the meeting Finance sees a $240,000 inventory variance. Operations says the on-hand inventory is correct. IT confirms the nightly jobs...

Figure 1. A faster close is created by fewer surprises, not faster accountants. Executive takeaway The position: Most organizations do not have a month-end close problem. They have a monthlong process problem that becomes visible at month-end. Late vendor invoices arrive. Inventory transactions are still posting. Bank lines remain unmatched. Someone remembers an accrual after preliminary statements are distributed. Finance discovers that one legal entity interpreted "close by Friday" as...

Figure 1. Static placement preserves yesterday's assumptions; adaptive placement governs today's movement. The position: The annual slotting project is no longer enough. D365 is moving toward an adaptive warehouse control model where placement, replenishment, routing, traceability, and work priority reinforce one another. First, the truth check Yes—the core technology claims in this article are researched and supportable. But the status labels matter. Microsoft's release plan lists dynamic item placement and...