From the Microsoft Dynamics 365 Finance and Supply Chain Management blogs: Automate procurement tasks; Deploy a preview version; AI to analyze data; Manual inventory tracking

In this review of the Dynamics 365 Finance and Supply Chain Management blogs:

• Microsoft's supplier communications agent
• Deploy a preview version to a unified environment
• Using AI to analyze D365 F&SCM data
• The hidden costs of manual inventory tracking

Microsoft's supplier communications agent: automate procurement tasks in Dynamics 365 F&SCM

On the ERP Software Blog, an author from Boyer & Associates wrote that companies need to stop chasing suppliers for order confirmations during their busy workdays. Instead, they should let AI handle the heavy lifting while their teams focus on what really needs their attention.

The author posed a stressful last-minute scenario: chasing three different suppliers about critical delivery confirmations. Workers are left scrambling to draft follow-up emails, hunting down purchase order numbers, and wondering if that shipment delay is going to impact next week's production schedule.

The author noted that there's an AI assistant that could handle all of that automatically — and it's already built into D365 F&SCM. The author then explained how to use the AI assistant to automate procurement tasks.

Deploy a preview version to a unified environment 

On his blog, Anthony Blake wrote that in Lifecycle Services, deploying preview versions to Dynamics 365 Finance and Operations was easy. He noted that with the new admin experience in the Power Platform Admin Center, the process works a bit differently. 

He pointed out that to use a preview version, the environment must be created as an early release environment by turning ...