Plan and prepare for Dynamics 365 Supply Chain Management in 2025 release wave 1
Important
The 2025 release wave 1 plan covers all new functionalities planned to be delivered to market from April 2025 to September 2025. In this article, you'll find the product overview and what's new and planned for Dynamics 365 Supply Chain Management.
Overview
Dynamics 365 Supply Chain Management offers comprehensive capabilities for end-to-end processes that manufacturers, distributors, consumer product groups, and retailers need to meet their supply chain requirements. Its functionality spans product information management, forecasting, planning, inventory, sales, and procurement, as well as complex manufacturing, asset maintenance, warehousing, transportation management, and costing.
The 2025 release wave 1 introduces several key enhancements:
- Demand Planning: Copilot, generative insights, and cell-level explainability improve forecasting accuracy.
- Manufacturing: New features include optimized testing strategies and digitized records for quality management. Copilot-assisted updates enhance manufacturing planning data, leading to more accurate production processes.
- Planning Optimization: Integrates lean manufacturing principles, catch weight, and step consumption for better material use management.
- Contract Lifecycle Management: Supports integration with external systems for efficient supplier contract management.
- Vendor Rebate Management: Updated with reconciliation and resubmission workflows, allowing for more flexible vendor transactions.
Investment areas
Copilot and AI innovation
Dynamics 365 Supply Chain Management provides a rich set of capabilities for supporting organizations’ business processes with innovative, in-product, AI-based features that empower users to rapidly unlock the full potential of Supply Chain Management.
Inventory and logistics
The inventory and logistics capabilities of Dynamics 365 Supply Chain Management enable businesses to manage their sales and fulfillment processes efficiently while ensuring inventory availability that matches the desired service levels. These capabilities help businesses gain more visibility, efficiency, and resiliency in their supply chain operations.
Manufacturing and asset management
The manufacturing and asset management features in Dynamics 365 Supply Chain Management help companies gain agility, efficiency, and visibility in their manufacturing and maintenance operations while maximizing asset uptime and productivity. Investments are focused on increasing flexibility and agility. Manufacturers having requirements for compliance with multiple inventory accounting practices across multiple currencies continue to benefit from enhancements to the Global Inventory Accounting add-in. Improvements in material picking and handling last-minute manufacturing changes increase the agility on the shop floor.
Planning
Demand planning is powered by best-in-class, out-of-the-box forecast models, immersive user experiences, intelligent reports, and analytics. It empowers organizations to build an agile, resilient, and sustainable demand planning practice that's fueled by intelligence and collaboration. In-memory supply planning offers performance and scalability to get near real-time insights into requirements changes with material requirements planning and production scheduling.
Procurement
Procurement and sourcing cover all steps from identifying a need for products and services, through procurement, receipt, invoicing, and processing payments with vendors. Procurement processes can be configured toward specific business needs by defining purchasing policies and workflows.
To learn more about the entire set of capabilities being delivered during this release wave, check out the release plan for Dynamics 365 Supply Chain Management below:
For application administrators
User-impacting features to the user experience enabled automatically
User-impacting features should be reviewed by application administrators. This facilitates release change management and enables successful onboarding of new capabilities released to market. For the complete list, look for all features tagged "Users, automatically" in the release plan.
Features that must be enabled by application administrators
This release wave contains features that must be enabled or configured by administrators, makers, or business analysts to be available for their users. For the complete list, look for all features tagged "Users by admins, makers, or analysts" in the release plan.
Get the most out of Supply Chain Management
| Helpful links | Description |
|---|---|
| Release plan | View all capabilities included in the release. |
| Licensing | Improve your understanding of how to license Supply Chain Management. |
| Product documentation | Find documentation for Supply Chain Management. |
| User community | Engage with Supply Chain Management experts and peers in the community. |
| Upcoming events | Find and register for in-person and online events. |
| Product trials | Get started with Supply Chain Management. |