Dynamics 365: Release Enhancements Plan January 2022
Posted on: January 2, 2022 | By: Guy Logan | Microsoft Dynamics AX/365, Microsoft Dynamics Manufacturing
The 2022 release wave plan for Dynamics 365 brings new innovations that provide you with significant capabilities to transform your business. This month’s release contains the following exciting new features in Dynamics 365 for Finance & Supply Chain Management for these apps: Finance, Supply Chain Management, Guides, and Project Operations.
Dynamics 365 Finance drives automation and predictive analytics capabilities.
- New Feature: Create invoice lines based on the quantity option parameter in Accounts payable
- Business Value: reduces the number of tasks that an accounts payable clerk must complete when additional line items are added to invoices
- Details: enables the system to create line items automatically when invoices are imported
- Business Value: reduces the number of tasks that an accounts payable clerk must complete when additional line items are added to invoices
- New Feature: Customer payment predictions
- Business Value: know when all of a customer’s outstanding invoices are likely to be paid, in addition to knowing when specific invoices are likely to be paid
- Details: help answer when will an invoice or sales order be paid, which customers will pay on time and which will pay late, which invoices or orders will they pay
- Business Value: know when all of a customer’s outstanding invoices are likely to be paid, in addition to knowing when specific invoices are likely to be paid
- New Feature: External data for cash flow forecasting
- Business Value: allows the ability to renter or import external data into cash flow forecasts, which helps improve the accuracy of forecasts
- Details: lets you include external data in cash flow forecasting. It brings the capability to import external data from supporting systems into the cash flow engine to improve the accuracy of cash flow forecasting
- Business Value: allows the ability to renter or import external data into cash flow forecasts, which helps improve the accuracy of forecasts
- New Feature: Forecast bank balance
- Business Value: help companies monitor and manage their cash balances effectively
- Details: help treasurers more accurately understand the availability of funds at specific times
- Business Value: help companies monitor and manage their cash balances effectively
- New Feature: Intelligent budget proposal
- Business Value: uses data to generate a new budget that can be further refined by staff who possess knowledge and insights that might not be present in historical data
- Details: lets you create a draft budget automatically, but with a high degree of confidence, from the use of historical data
- Business Value: uses data to generate a new budget that can be further refined by staff who possess knowledge and insights that might not be present in historical data
- New Feature: Treasurer workspace
- Business Value: cash flow forecasting capability in finance insights can help companies monitor and manage their cash balances effectively
- Details: adds a new workspace that includes all necessary elements for completing the analysis and activities that treasurers need to successfully manage their organization’s cash
- Business Value: cash flow forecasting capability in finance insights can help companies monitor and manage their cash balances effectively
- New Feature: Tax Calculation service – enabling tax calculation parameters by tax jurisdiction
- Business Value: allows you to improve compliance with associated local regulations. The new, configurable microservice (preview) enhances the tax determination and calculation capabilities in
- Details: This feature is part of the Tax Calculation capabilities to support defining tax calculation parameters by tax jurisdiction in the Tax Calculation service.
- Business Value: allows you to improve compliance with associated local regulations. The new, configurable microservice (preview) enhances the tax determination and calculation capabilities in
Dynamics 365 Supply Chain Management obtains a unified view of inventory, warehouse, manufacturing, service, and logistics with predictive analytics.
- New Feature: Planning Optimization support for capability-based resource allocation
- Business Value: automates resource selection during production scheduling based on individual operation capabilities and requirements
- Details: supports production scheduling with flexible resource allocation based on resource capabilities
- Business Value: automates resource selection during production scheduling based on individual operation capabilities and requirements
- New Feature: Planning Optimization support for reorder margin and issue margin
- Business Value: with reorder and issue margins, your lead time setup can be simplified for both distribution and production scenarios
- Details: enables the Planning Optimization Add-in for Supply Chain Management to include safety margins of types reorder margin and issue margin during master planning
- Business Value: with reorder and issue margins, your lead time setup can be simplified for both distribution and production scenarios
Next Steps
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