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Becoming a Dynamics 365 Supply Chain Management Functional Consultant Associate

By : Juan Bravo Vargas, Mariano Martínez Melo
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Book Image

Becoming a Dynamics 365 Supply Chain Management Functional Consultant Associate

5 (1)
By: Juan Bravo Vargas, Mariano Martínez Melo

Overview of this book

Meeting delivery commitments has become increasingly challenging due to evolving demands and fluctuating material availability. As a result, establishing robust systems and processes that can adapt to this dynamic environment has become a necessity. With Becoming a Dynamics 365 Supply Chain Management Functional Consultant Associate, you’ll understand how to initiate and implement effective supply chain management processes. This book begins with an overview of the processes and modules within Dynamics 365 and then delves into real-life case studies involving procurement, sales, and quality assurance. You’ll explore more advanced tools and core processes, such as warehouse and transportation management, which allows you to define storage flows and shipping controls. You’ll also learn about the various tools available to define solutions and discover how to work within the Dynamics 365 Supply Chain Management platform. The last set of chapters will take you through the planning techniques and considerations to schedule and control all supply process flows seamlessly. By the end of this book, you’ll not only be well-prepared to obtain your certification as a Microsoft Dynamics 365 Supply Chain Management Functional Consultant Associate but also be equipped to solidify your expertise and pursue exciting career opportunities.
Table of Contents (14 chapters)

Creating and posting inventory journals

Now that we have created the warehouse and the main parameters, we can start working with the inventory process and its journals.

Inbound operations

Let’s bring back the inventory inbound process and dig into it. Then, we will describe how to incorporate that process into Dynamics 365 SCM.

Here we have an inbound example with the inventory status of each step:

Figure 3.11 – Inbound process in Dynamics 365 SCM

Figure 3.11 – Inbound process in Dynamics 365 SCM

In Figure 3.11, we can see that every inventory arrival process has an inventory transaction status associated with it:

  1. When the order is created, the inventory has the ordered status, meaning that some stock will be received once the order is executed.
  2. When the item arrives, and its arrival journal is created, the inventory status changes to Arrive. This means the inventory is physically in the warehouse.
  3. After that, the inventory worker can register the arrival journal...