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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

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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)

Internal warehouse processes

Once the items are received and stored, several activities regarding warehouse organization occur. From transfer orders to cycle counts, we will review the mechanisms to perform those activities and how to set them up in the warehouse management module. This section will review a warehouse’s internal operations processes and flows.

Transfer orders

Transfer orders are used to move inventory from one warehouse to another. It consists of a two-part process: shipping and receiving the items. This section will review the shipping process since the Inbound operations section describes the receiving process.

As we reviewed in Chapter 3, transfer orders are managed in the transfer order form located in the inventory management module. Here we extend this activity by controlling its picking process with the mobile device app.

One thing to notice here is that even though this process works for inventory management and warehouse management, dynamics...