Friday, July 26, 2019
What Happens During D365 F&O Master Scheduling?
Have you ever wondered why Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations (D365 F&O) creates a planned order with an action message that tells you to cancel the same planned order? Or why is a planned transfer of Product Y auto-firmed to fulfill a demand in Warehouse B, while a planned transfer of the same product …
Wednesday, May 29, 2019
Microsoft Focuses on D365 to Help Customers Achieve Digital Transformation
We were fortunate to have speaker Mike Ehrenberg, Technical Fellow at Microsoft, at our recent Digital Transformation event. He shared a wide range of insights about the vital and increasingly robust role Dynamics 365 plays in customers’ digital transformation and in Microsoft’s own business model. Ehrenberg said that more and more customers are asking Microsoft: …
Wednesday, May 22, 2019
How ERP Managed Services Can Improve D365 Efficiency
As companies strive to improve the efficiency and cost-effectiveness of their ERP systems, a growing number are shifting to managed services support agreements to help them avoid the complexity of application maintenance and upgrades. Unlike a traditional fee-for-service plan in which every ticket triggers fees, a managed services agreement creates a support-as-a-service framework that enhances …
Tuesday, April 30, 2019
Cross-Company Data Sharing Is Key for Multi-Entity Organizations
Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations (D365 F&O) is designed to be flexible. It allows different legal entities to have different rules and setups to support their often unique business processes. Each company may have its own set of lists of values, and default table values can be maintained and updated separately. Many companies, however, …
Wednesday, April 24, 2019
Should you enable Include Physical Value for Inventory in Dynamics 365?
In Dynamics 365 for Finance & Operations (D365 F&O), in the Cost Price section of Item Model Groups, there’s a checkbox to Include physical value. Selecting it can have a significant impact on cost of goods sold (COGS) and margins. I myself have seen Include physical value produce unexpected adjustments to COGS when inventory was …
Tuesday, September 11, 2018
Where’s My SmartList? Migrating from GP to D365 F&O
Many Microsoft Dynamics GP clients have come to rely on SmartList as a way to get data out of GP in order to build Excel-based reports. SmartList allows you to connect different tables, providing a single view with general ledger (GL) account detail alongside descriptions and vendor or customer details. But companies moving from GP …