Finance and Operations: 2022 Release Wave 2 highlights

• Quotation improvements in subscription billing where recurring billing facilitate sales quotation generation utilizing the pre-existing quotation report from a billing schedule.
• Choose extra customers as responsible parties on a billing schedule with split billing in subscription billing and produce invoices for multiple customers from a single contract.
• Support analytical reporting with defined financial tags to track user-classified fields on accounting entries while eliminating financial dimension creation containing values that are not reusable.
• Save time, costs, and effort with ledger settlement automation while letting your accounting staff focus on the highest-value areas.
• Vendor invoice OCR (Optical Character Recognition) allows you to define and tailor the required minimal data fields for vendor invoices.
• Configure the confidence score of invoice recognition and indicate the detected errors’ severity differences.
• Define mandatory manual reviews before creating invoices by configuring the OCR data processing.

Globalization Studio:

• Tax Calculation integration with Dynamics 365 Project Operations.
• Enhanced import experience for missing parent configuration and elevated electronic reporting process configuration while reducing exceptions and clarifying missing dependencies.
• 2 GB file size limitation removal for electronic reporting.

• Make soft reservations and allocate inventory with the Inventory Visibility Add-in. Soft reservations allow you to track real-time omnichannel sales demand and avoid overselling.
• Users can now track allocated quantities consumption in real time. Subtract soft reserved quantities from allocated quantities with the Inventory Visibility service.
• Get a complete summary across channels and data sources within the Inventory summary entity in Dataverse. Users can now use this data for inventory analysis in Power BI or another tool, field service integration, or distribution.

Planning:

Procurement:

Warehouse management:

• Planning Optimization can now be used by manufacturers in process manufacturing scenarios (including batch orders, co-products, and by-products).
• Reach greater management over how inventory is allocated and if it is available for reservation by using batch disposition codes honored by Planning Optimization.
• Increase the generated material requirement plans quality and accuracy with Planning Optimization’s demand from sales quotations.

• Easily identify and understand delays and sourcing shortages risks with a new supply-risk assessment dashboard.
• Source products and materials from different vendors when ordering manually or driven by master planning.

• Allow warehouse employees to move around while working on packing activities with the Warehouse Management mobile app and improve customers’ shipping experience.
• Warehouse workers can configure and keep the warehouse management solution without help from expert consultants with the new quick implementation and configuration experience that saves time and costs.
• Leverage efficient self-service monitoring and issue diagnosis without Microsoft’s direct involvement with easy access to insights into the warehouse management performance and usage through Azure Application Insights.