D365 Finance & Operations

Microsoft Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations (FO) integrates all business financials into core business processes and automates the tedious and time-consuming work to boost productivity.

It is now available in two applications: Microsoft Dynamics 365 Finance and Microsoft Dynamics 365 Supply Chain Management. These two applications make business activities more flexible and make data-driven decisions easy to drive business growth.

Microsoft Dynamics 365 Finance: Automates global financial operations and gains intelligent insights into financial performance in real-time.

• Enhances financial decision-making.
• Makes timely decisions to drive agility and growth using comprehensive, real-time financial reporting, embedded analytics, and AI-driven methods.
• Integrates financials into core business activities and automates various tedious and time-consuming tasks to boost user productivity.
• Supports evolving various business models, and it helps to maximize financial performance.
• Minimizes costs and optimizes spending across business geographies with process automation, budget control, and financial planning and analysis.

Microsoft Dynamics 365 Supply Chain Management: Digitally transforms supply chain activities with advanced warehouse and inventory management to optimize visibility product insights, material sourcing, and integrated logistics distributions.

• Streamlines manufacturing and distribution processes with real-time planning, connected factory operations, and optimized visibility into stock.
• Automates stock, warehousing, and logistics with predictive analytics.
• Reduces asset downtime and optimizes equipment performance with proactive maintenance.
• Uses AI capabilities to predict demand and plan supply as well as production in near real-time scenarios.
• Optimizes business decisions and helps in reducing overall costs by synchronizing logistics across sites, warehouses, and transportation modes.
• Enables faster response to customers by automating a seamless coordination of order-to-cash business processes.
• Connects all sales and purchasing with logistics, production, and warehouse management for a complete 360-degree view of the supply chain.

Microsoft Dynamics 365 FO: Provides various role-specific dashboards and workspaces to make work life easier for all businesses using it for their day-in and day-out activities. It is a very flexible application and can be used for many scenarios as needed such as:

• Enterprise: An end-to-end solution that looks after financials and core operations.
• 2-Tier subsidiary: Solution that handles the financials and operations for business units and integrates with the headquarter’s ERP system.
• Operational workloads: Manages specific business functions of different processes and integrates them with one corporate system.

Several new features and concepts have been introduced in Microsoft Dynamics 365 FO to restructure the overall business process:

• Dashboard
• Navigation pane
• Workspaces
• Tiles