Microsoft Dynamics 365 Finance and Supply Chain Management information and features from
Version 10.0.12 platform update 36
Some of the new features introduced in Version 10.0.12, platform update 36 are:
|
Functional Area |
Feature |
Description |
What's good about this feature? |
Effort to implement |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Accounts payable | Automatic vendor payment proposal. | A new process automation framework allows accounts payable (AP) managers to define automation schedules that define what vendors will be paid, and when they will be paid. | This allows the accounts payable team to schedule one or multiple pay runs each week. | Minimal |
| Whole application | Designate fields as required via the Personalisation toolbar. | The option to mark a field as mandatory has been added to the personalisation toolbar. | As all business can have different requirements around fields that must be populated when creating master data, or during transaction entry, the ability to make certain fields mandatory helps to alleviate incomplete data. | No effort |
| Warehouse | Mass deployment for warehousing app. | Allows administrators to automate the deployment and/or configuration of the warehousing app. | Provides a more efficient way to manage warehouse scanning devices. | Small |
| Procurement | Planning Optimisation support for purchase trade agreements. | The master planning optimisation service now considers purchase agreements when selecting best price or lead time information. | This continues to build on the functionality provided by the new planning optimisation service to replace the existing master planning engine. | Small |
| Warehouse | License plate receiving enhancements for the warehousing app. | Introduces several improvements for the license plate receiving and putaway process with the warehousing app. | Continued improvement and flexibility for users handling inbound goods. | Small |
If you are interested in the full listing of the features introduced within this version,
you can find this information direct from Microsoft here:
» What's new in Finance
» What's new in Supply Chain Management
» Platform updates
Features from previous versions that you might have missed are:
|
Functional Area |
Feature |
Description |
Version |
What's good about this feature? |
Effort to implement |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| General Ledger | Reverse journal posting | It is now possible to reverse an entire posted journal or reverse one or more vouchers from the voucher transaction list regardless of their origin. | 10.0.7 | Previously it was only possible to reverse a voucher at a time. Now it is possible to reverse a whole journal. | No effort |
| Financial Reporting | Financial report retention policies |
This feature helps you manage retention of generated financial reports. It applies a default expiration policy to all reports so that expired reports are automatically deleted after a period of time. Reports that need to be retained for regulatory purposes can still be marked for retention indefinitely. |
10.0.8 | This gives you the ability to easily control which instances of a report to keep. | Minimal |
| Whole Application | Cross-app usability enhancements |
Group data based on a single column. Extends the previously added Totals feature to provide subtotals at the group level. |
Multiple | The kind of grouping and totalling that previously required use of Excel can now be done easily within D365. | No effort |
| Whole Application | Cross-app usability enhancements |
Saved views can now be published as defaults for other users. |
Multiple | Teams can now easily share form personalisation to ensure consistency and ease of access to important information. | Minimal |
| Inventory | Workflow |
Approval workflow is now available for each type of inventory journal. |
10.0.9 | Simple or complex workflow approval processes can now be implemented for the various types of inventory journal. | Medium |
Upcoming features from future versions that you can look forward to:
|
Feature |
Description |
Expected |
|---|---|---|
| Trial balance report with transactional detail and unposted GL transactions | This report will include opening balances, debits, credits, and the resulting balances for a given date range. | August 2020 |
If you are interested in the version release schedule from Microsoft, you can find this here.
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