Dynamics 365: Release Enhancements Plan October 2022

Posted on: August 29, 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: Split billing in subscription billing

    • Business Value: allows users of Recurring contract billing within Subscription billing to select additional customers as responsible parties on a billing schedule.
      • Details: allows for multiple customers to be billed from a single contract with a single billing schedule for each customer and their responsibility is defined.
  • New Feature: Try quotation enhancements in subscription billing

    • Business Value: customers that start with a Billing schedule do not have an existing process to create a quotation within Dynamics 365 Finance.
      • Details: Recurring contract billing enable generating sales quotations using the pre-existing quotation report from a Billing schedule
  • New Feature: Invoice automation – process vendor invoices during the import process

    • Business Value: saves time and effort for accounts payable clerks by processing vendor invoices automatically
      • Details: processes vendor invoices automatically when the invoices are imported
  • New Feature: Print payment advice for approved vendor payments

    • Business Value: Payment advice of vendor payments can be printed at both the Approved and Sent status.
      • Details: Customers use the payment advice to inform suppliers that money has been successfully remitted through the bank.
  • New Feature: Reverse debit, credit when importing bank statements

    • Business Value: helps correct the debit and credit marks when importing bank statements in advanced bank reconciliation
      • Details: reverses the debit and credit on imported bank statement transactions in advanced bank reconciliation
  • New Feature: Planning Optimization for select manufactured items

    • Business Value: provides an option to specify a time zone to use for importing data
      • Details: allows users to specify a time zone when importing a bank statement in advanced bank reconciliation using electronic reporting

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

  • New Feature: Inventory and logistics feature state updates for 10.0.29

    • Business Value: helps ensure that your system stays current with the latest inventory and logistics capabilities of Dynamics 365 Supply Chain Management
      • Details: features have become mandatory and can no longer be disabled
  • New Feature: Allocate and reserve WMS items in Inventory Visibility

    • Business Value: use Inventory Visibility to make soft reservations and allocate inventory.
      • Details: supports soft reservations and inventory allocation
  • New Feature: Preload streamlined on-hand inventory lists

    • Business Value: stores on-hand inventory details that are filtered based on configurable business criteria to ensure that only the most relevant information is included
      • Details: stores a great deal of information about your current on-hand inventory and makes it available for a wide variety of purposes
  • New Feature: Track soft reserved quantities within allocations

    • Business Value: benefits manufacturers who may experience latency issues during the report-as-finished process
      • Details: lets you control whether the report-as-finished journal and related journal postings should be processed at the same time as the report-as-finished task is processed by the system
  • New Feature: Make finished goods physically available before posting

    • Business Value: helps correct the debit and credit marks when importing bank statements in advanced bank reconciliation
      • Details: reverses the debit and credit on imported bank statement transactions in advanced bank reconciliation
  • New Feature: Manufacturing and asset management feature state updates for 10.0.29

    • Business Value: helps customers stay current with the latest manufacturing and asset management capabilities of Dynamics 365 Supply Chain Management
      • Details: These features have become mandatory and can no longer be disabled.
  • New Feature: Monitor equipment with Sensor Data Intelligence

    • Business Value: collects and displays information about equipment usage and status
      • Details: enables your organization to drive business processes based on sensor data from machines and equipment on the production floor
  • New Feature: Planning feature state updates for 10.0.29

    • Business Value: features by default helps customers stay current with the latest planning capabilities of Dynamics 365 Supply Chain Management
      • Details: These features have become mandatory and can no longer be disabled.
  • New Feature: View and apply detailed insights for DDMRP

    • Business Value: yields inventory reductions of 30-45 percent while improving customer service.
      • Details: includes decoupled lead time page and average daily usage forward/blended
  • New Feature: Procurement and sourcing feature state updates for 10.0.29
    • Business Value: helps customers stay current with the latest manufacturing and asset management capabilities of Dynamics 365 Supply Chain Management
      • Details: These features have become mandatory and can no longer be disabled.
  • New Feature: Product information management feature state updates for 10.0.29
    • Business Value: helps customers stay current with the latest manufacturing and asset management capabilities of Dynamics 365 Supply Chain Management
      • Details: These features have become mandatory and can no longer be disabled.
  • New Feature: Warehouse management feature state updates for 10.0.29

    • Business Value: features by default helps customers stay current with the latest planning capabilities of Dynamics 365 Supply Chain Management
      • Details: These features have become mandatory and can no longer be disabled.
  • New Feature: Look up relevant data within the warehouse mobile app

    • Business Value: provides an easy and accurate way to capture data
      • Details: improves the speed and accuracy of capturing data through the Warehouse Management mobile app by allowing workers to search for and select related records from a list rather than entering data manually

Next Steps    

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