Dynamics 365: Release Enhancements Plan June 2021 

Posted on: June 2, 2021 | By: Jarrod Kraemer | Microsoft Dynamics AX/365, Microsoft Dynamics Manufacturing

The 2021 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 & Operations for these apps: Finance, Supply Chain Management, Guides, and Project Operations. 

Dynamics 365 Finance drives automation and predictive analytics capabilities. 

  • New Feature: Collections – Vendor collaboration bank changes
    • Business Value: vendors can enter their own bank information directly into your Dynamics 365 Finance deployment using the Vendor collaboration workspace
      • Details: lets vendors view the bank accounts that they’ve set up for the business they conduct with your organization

Dynamics 365 Supply Chain Management obtains a unified view of inventory, warehouse, manufacturing, service, and logistics with predictive analytics. 

  • New Feature: Sales order to purchase order line deletion policy
    • Business Value: allow companies to decide whether a purchase order line is deleted when marking is removed from the related sales order line
      • Details: lets you control what will happen to a purchase order line that is referenced by a sales order line when a user manually deletes that sales order line
  • New Feature: Contact person data entity export optimization
    • Business Value: enables incremental exports to run more quickly
      • Details: changes to referenced data will not cause related contacts to be included in the next incremental export
  • New Feature: Incremental enhancements for warehouse execution capabilities with scale units
    • Business Value: further enhances the capabilities of these workloads to better fulfill organizations’ growing requirements
      • Details: 
        • warehouse workers in outbound scenarios can perform simple picking and loading work for transfer orders on scale units
        • can print labels on scale units, including wave labels
        • can commence cluster picking and wave processing for shipments
        • allow change of workers, cancelations, location movements, and completion of work to be reported quickly for sales and transfer orders
        • can make inventory adjustments and influence counting processing through the warehouse inventory adjustment journals
  • New Feature: Lookup functionality for Document introduction and Document conclusion fields on the Sales quotation page
    • Business Value: makes it faster and easier for users to select and update introduction and conclusion texts for sales quotation documents
      • Details: makes it faster and easier to select and update introduction and conclusion texts for sales quotation documents
  • New Feature: Global Inventory Accounting Add-in for Dynamics 365 Supply Chain Management
    • Business Value: provides a comprehensive solution that enables organizations to perform inventory accounting using multiple costing ledgers
      • Details: customers can define as many costing ledgers as required
  • New Feature: Inventory Visibility Add-in for Dynamics 365 Supply Chain Management
    • Business Value: enables organizations to maintain a single, global inventory position and easily extend real-time inventory visibility through related applications
      • Details: lets organizations manage global, on-hand inventory with minimal setup
  • New Feature: Manufacturing execution with scale units in the cloud
    • Business Value: can execute mission-critical manufacturing processes without interruption and at scale and build resilience into key manufacturing processes
      • Details: improve the resilience of your manufacturing processes by extending your cloud hub with cloud-scale units that run manufacturing workloads
  • New Feature: Variant suggestions page improvements
    • Business Value: brings improved performance and usability for companies that have a high number of product dimension combinations
      • Details: improve the performance and usability of the Variant suggestions page when you have a high number of dimension combinations from which to create variants

Next Steps    

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