Microsoft is always introducing new features and capabilities to keep up with business needs to ensure your organization is prepared. Here are the latest Microsoft Dynamics 365 Finance updates that you should know about.
Features releasing in September 2024
| Module | Feature | Description | Public Preview | General availability |
| Procurement | Approve POs and requisitions from mobile device | Many businesses make use of approval workflows to ensure all new purchase requisitions and purchase orders are valid, within budget, and in line with all business practices and standards. Unfortunately, this extra layer of security can sometimes add delays to the purchasing process. Therefore, Dynamics 365 Supply Chain Management now provides a mobile approval experience, which adds flexibility, efficiency, resiliency, and responsiveness to the approval process. | Jul-24 | Sep-24 |
| Planning | Calculate promise-to-calculate quantities in real time | Give customers realistic dates for when you can promise specific goods. For each sales line, you can provide a date that takes account of existing on-hand inventory, production capacity, and transportation times | Sep-24 | Dec-24 |
| Manufacturing and Asset Management | Decouple production registration from time and attendance | This feature makes it possible for workers to register production work using your manufacturing execution system (MES) without requiring managers to approve workers’ time registrations and adjustments. For companies that don’t use the time and attendance module of Dynamics 365 Supply Chain Management, this enables a faster workflow and easier setup. | Jul-24 | Sep-24 |
| Manufacturing and Asset Management | Register time spent working on projects for production | This feature provides an effective way to track time spent on projects without requiring workers to fill out a time sheet every time they start and stop work. Instead, workers can use the production floor execution interface to register their time directly. This capability is especially relevant when doing activities (such as research and trial runs) that aren’t directly related to daily production work. | Jul-24 | Sep-24 |
| Inventory and Logistics | Enable quality control for goods in transit orders | Enriching the goods-in-transit process with Quality Control in Dynamics 365 is a transformative initiative that elevates supply chain operations. This integration ensures that products undergo stringent quality checks throughout transit, guaranteeing the delivery of high-quality goods when they are received at the warehouse. | Jul-24 | Sep-24 |
| Inventory and Logistics | Reproduce business documents that include product bundle | Dynamics 365 Supply Chain Management now preserves detailed product-bundle information in its database, which means that you’ll be able to reprint original sales order confirmations and invoices even after the related sales order has been deleted or archived and purged. You’ll also be better able to exchange order confirmations and invoices electronically. | Apr-24 | Sep-24 |
| Inventory and Logistics | Sync external changes through inventory visibility | Businesses integrating Dynamics 365 Supply Chain Management with external inventory systems typically need to synchronize inventory updates between systems, create order and journal records in Supply Chain Management, and aggregate data to optimize performance. Inventory Visibility now provides out-of-the-box functionality that supports all these operations, thereby minimizing implementation efforts while improving system performance. The resulting solution also lets you trace inventory transactions back to the original source documents and run historical inventory analyses based on the synchronized data. | Sep-24 | Sep-24 |
| Inventory and Logistics | Track time series inventory in Inventory visibility | External systems integrated with Dynamics 365 Supply Chain Management can now access accurate and up-to-date inventory availability information. This capability enables users to promise sales orders, search for spare parts, and view material availability more efficiently and confidently. | Jul-24 | Sep-24 |
| Business Performance | Generative help in business performance planning application |
Business performance planning is the extended planning and analysis application that Dynamics 365 finance and operations users will leverage to do financial budget planning and forecasting. With Copilot generative answers, users will be able to ask questions about product features and functionality and get quick and summarized responses from Microsoft Learn content. |
Sep -24 | No date yet |
For more information, read Microsoft’s latest release wave plan.
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