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- Welcome to Dynamics
365 Essentials for IT.
In the next few minutes, we'll
look at how you can build
a more resilient supply chain.
Now more than ever, it's critical
to have real-time insights
into supply chain factors like resources,
demand and inventory.
As well as processes like procurement,
production and distribution.
Dynamics 365 Supply Chain Management
gives you those insights
by providing unified
operations across areas
like warehousing, planning
and transportation.
We've also built intelligence
on that integrated foundation
to provide insights so
you can identify issues
and keep fulfilling orders
even in today's fast changing environment.
Let me give you an
overview of what it takes
to set up these kinds of agile
and responsive operations
using Microsoft Dynamics
365 Supply Chain Management.
Chances are your current
supply chain management
is composed of different applications,
maybe built internally
and connected through custom
code and integrations.
This can be a maintenance headache.
If the systems in their
data schemes are different,
you may be spending a lot of time
keeping them all in sync and up to date
and duplicating data entry.
Dynamics 365 Supply Chain Management
can provide a powerful alternative
to these disparate systems
with one application that handles
all of their functionality.
From the time you receive an order
to fulfilling that order and
receiving payment for it,
Microsoft Dynamics 365
supports your business
with intelligent insights
and the tools to respond.
And it integrates with your
existing back end systems
from your logistics
system to your HR system
through the Microsoft Power Platform
and lets you build your
own custom experiences.
More on that in a minute.
Supply Chain Management is part
of the larger Dynamics 365 family of apps
and is focused on operations
and natively integrates
with all of the Dynamics 365 modules.
Supply Chain Management
comprises a broad range
of functionality covering all the areas
of your supply chain,
even beyond areas you
might have in place today,
to help you provide solutions
to operational challenges
now and in the future.
It includes product
information management,
planning, everything
from demand forecasting
to supply distribution planning,
inventory and logistics
including warehouse management
and vendor collaboration,
manufacturing of all kinds
such as discrete process
and mixed manufacturing,
and asset management
including preventative
and predictive maintenance
supported by IoT sensors.
Supply Chain Management,
which I'll call SCM for short,
works in unison with Dynamics
365 Finance and Commerce,
which handle the accounting
and financial aspects of operations.
SCM helps you fulfill your orders,
for instance by giving you deep visibility
into product inventory.
So you can see inbound and
outbound inventory operations
as well as an accurate view
of what's in your warehouses.
SCM also helps you streamline
the procurement process
by identifying the fastest route
or the least expensive shipment rate,
and provides tools like
a collaboration interface
that you and your external
vendors can use to stay informed
and respond to orders, ensuring
coordination and agility
in your procurement processes.
SCM also provides planning optimization
for your manufacturing
fulfillment operations
by using Azure Analytics under
the covers to forecast demand
and dynamically plan capacity
using real-time flexible
resource management.
You can see the materials
and resources needed
to meet current demand,
forecast delivery dates
and respond to demand or supply changes
to prevent bottlenecks.
To ensure maximum productivity
SCM offers efficient asset management
with predictive analytics
to help determine
maintenance needs and prevent downtime
of business critical equipment,
as well as enabling IoT
machines and devices
to monitor and create
a digital feedback loop
that informs you of problems
and automatically initiates actions
like a work order for machine repair.
And using the Microsoft Power Platform
you can quickly build scalable
web and mobile client apps
and even integrate chatbots
that share a common
interface and unify data
so that your workers on the floor
and personnel in the office
are all working from the same information.
SCM also accelerates delivery
with transportation and
warehouse management
through tools like the
load planning workbench
to create shipments based on sales orders
and hub consolidation to smartly optimize
and consolidate shipments coming
from different warehouses,
but going to the same customer.
Finally, SCM's integration with Power BI
provides reporting and powerful analytics
across supply chain management
and connected applications
to give you a full view
of your operations.
Now let's take a closer
look at the components
that make all of this possible
and what it takes to deploy them.
You can migrate your data
through a variety of methods.
For instance, by using
data entities from SCM,
which abstracting encapsulate
the underlying table schema for SCM,
and the Data Management suite
to create and manage data
import and export jobs.
Then with everything managed
by one centralized system,
you can spend less time
maintaining connections
between applications
and focus on adding value with new tools,
like leveraging machine learning
for more intelligent operations.
In fact, we built some of
those features into SCM.
Let's look at three of them,
designed to address key challenges
in Supply Chain Management:
intelligent demand forecasting,
IoT based asset management
and near real-time planning.
Forecasting demand is
critical to your operations.
The more accurately you can
predict incoming orders,
the better you're able to plan
for production and fulfillment.
SCM uses Azure Machine Learning
to give you more accurate forecasting
using Microsoft developed models.
By using historical data
and machine learning
to extract patterns and
extend them into the future
you get predictive models that allow you
to scale operations to match demand.
You have full control of the models
as well as what data is
used for forecasting,
and your data scientists can download
demand forecasting
experiments from Microsoft
to visualize and manipulate
them in Azure Machine Learning.
And then they can connect them
for use within demand forecasting and SCM,
enabling them to be fine tuned
for your specific forecasting needs.
The forecasts that your
business users create
from these models can be fed directly
into their production plans.
Planning is the heart of operations.
It ensures enough supplies
are coming in product is being constructed
and orders fulfilled and delivered.
To be agile and resilient,
you need up-to-date information
and the ability to build
and review new plans
as often as needed.
But it can take a lot of processing power
to produce these plans,
requiring most organizations
to run the job overnight.
Now you can accomplish the
same results in minutes
with SCM's planning optimization add-in.
The add-in is installed
with life cycle services,
which is the environment used to manage
Dynamics 365 apps and services
for finance and operations.
Then your business users can create a plan
and see the results in minutes,
with near real-time
visibility into changes
on the demand or supply
side and their impact.
When it comes to your equipment,
SCM helps you create that
modern digital feedback loop.
If you use IoT devices
that connect equipment
to Azure IoT Hub, wizards can help you
configure notifications
for different scenarios,
like equipment downtime, product quality
or production delays.
For example, the equipment downtime wizard
guides you through
mapping your sensor schema
to the required inputs to associate
the business resources within SCM.
Okay, so we've talked about
how to take advantage
of some of the out-of-box
intelligence and IoT features
to increase agility and resilience.
Now let's talk about
integrating and extending SCM.
SCM's enablement with
the common data service
is optimized through
the use of dual writes,
which in effect optimizes
performance for key interactions
and supportive scenarios
such as prospect to cash.
And at the same time exposes SCM
through a significant
number of virtual entities
that enables a citizen developer
to interact through the Power Platform.
Microsoft also provides
pre-built connectors
to integrate your systems
and business processes with CDS.
And of course, you can always
build your own connector.
To see the connectors available for SCM,
go to aka.ms/SupplyChainConnectors.
You can also use the
Microsoft Power Platform
to build custom and automated experiences
around your SCM data and
processes using power BI,
Power Apps and Power Automate.
Power Apps in particular
gives you a low code environment
to build custom app experiences.
And it also integrates with
your existing developer tools.
So that was an overview
of Dynamics 365 Supply Chain Management
and how you can take advantage
of it for your organization.
Keep checking back
to our Dynamics 365
Essentials for IT series
to learn more about how to adopt
specific Dynamics 365
applications and services.
Thanks for watching.
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