Plan and prepare for Microsoft Supply Chain Center in 2023 release wave 1
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Important
The 2023 release wave 1 plan covers all new functionalities planned to be delivered to market from April 2023 to September 2023. In this article, you'll find the product overview and what's new and planned for Microsoft Supply Chain Center.
Overview
The Microsoft supply chain platform provides the building blocks across Microsoft Azure, Microsoft Dynamics 365, Microsoft Teams, and Microsoft Power Platform for you to develop or independently adopt capabilities for your specific supply chain needs. With Microsoft Dataverse, you can create thousands of connectors to gain visibility across your supply chain, develop custom workflows with low-code solutions in Power Platform, and enable secure collaboration both internally and externally through the power of Microsoft Teams.
The core of the supply chain platform is the Microsoft Supply Chain Center, now available in preview. Supply Chain Center provides a command center experience for practitioners to harmonize data from across existing infrastructure, like data from ERP providers including Dynamics 365, SAP, and Oracle, along with standalone supply chain systems. Data Manager in Supply Chain Center enables data ingestion and orchestration to provide visibility across the supply chain and drive action back into systems of execution.
Supply Chain Center also includes prebuilt modules to address supply chain disruptions across supply and order fulfillment, including:
The supply and demand insights module leverages advanced Microsoft Azure AI models to predict upstream supply constraints and shortages through supply intelligence. Combined with smart news insights, which provides relevant news alerts on external events, supply chain practitioners can make decisions and plan with real-world event information and historical insights for product demands.
The order management module in Supply Chain Center enables organizations to intelligently orchestrate fulfillment and automate it with a rules-based system using real-time omnichannel inventory data, AI, and machine learning. Organizations can adapt quickly to meet future order volumes and fulfillment complexities by extending their capabilities with prebuilt connectors to the best-of-breed of specialized technology partners for order intake, delivery, and third-party logistics services. Existing Dynamics 365 Intelligent Order Management customers will automatically get access to Supply Chain Center and the order management module at launch.
With secure, built-in Teams integration, you can mitigate supply constraints by collaborating with external suppliers in real time, to secure new supply sources, troubleshoot transportation issues, and communicate up and downstream impacts based on changes.
Updates to Microsoft Supply Chain Center 2023 release wave 1
Investment areas
Dynamics 365 Intelligent Order Management
Built on a modern, open platform, Dynamics 365 Intelligent Order Management provides the flexibility companies need to capture orders from any order source, including e-commerce, marketplace, mobile apps, or traditional sources like electronic data interchange. Companies can fulfill those orders from their own warehouses, third-party logistics providers, stores, or drop-ship with vendors or other delivery fulfillment partners using out-of-the-box, prebuilt connectors from an ecosystem of more than 200 Microsoft Power Platform connectors.
Intelligent Order Management leverages an integrated, real-time inventory visibility service, a microservice built on Microsoft Dataverse that is highly scalable and extensible, providing a single, global view of the inventory positions across systems. Intelligent Order Management also uses distributed order management to give real-time recommendations for each order to fulfill orders accurately and cost-effectively, improving supply chain efficiency to better meet customer expectations.
With Intelligent Order Management, brand owners gain real-time visibility into each step of the order journey, and fulfillment insights in real time through customizable and integrated dashboards that enable their supply chain team to overcome constraints and improve operational efficiency.
Upcoming features for 2023 release wave 1 include:
- New support for business to business (B2B) order management scenarios.
- Extensible and configurable fulfillment optimizations.
- Real-time shipping and costs provided to customers on multiple e-commerce platforms.
- Continued expansion of providers.
Note
Dynamics 365 Intelligent Order Management will continue to be sold standalone until Microsoft Supply Chain Center is generally available.
Supply and demand insights
The Supply and demand insights module uses advanced Azure AI models to predict upstream supply constraints and shortages through supply intelligence. Organizations can perform simulations using data from their supply chain network to predict being out of stock, over-stocking, or missed-order lines. Combined with smart news insights, which provides relevant news alerts in the Supply Chain Center on external events, supply chain practitioners can make decisions and plan with real-world event information and historical insights for product demands.
To learn more about the entire set of capabilities being delivered during this release wave, check out the release plan for Microsoft Supply Chain Center 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 Microsoft Supply Chain Center
| Helpful links | Description |
|---|---|
| Release plan | View all capabilities included in the release. |
| Product updates | Stay up to date on latest product updates. |
| Release calendar | Know important release milestones. |
| Licensing | Improve your understanding of how to license Microsoft Supply Chain Center. |
| Product documentation | Find documentation for Microsoft Supply Chain Center. |
| User community | Engage with Microsoft Supply Chain Center experts and peers in the community. |
| Upcoming events | Find and register for in-person and online events. |
| Product trials | Get started with Microsoft Supply Chain Center. |