DynamicsCon 2025: Dynamics 365 Supply Chain Management will strengthen quality management, traceability

To realize their ambitious AI goals for ERP, Microsoft will need to continue strengthening core software features that improve data and processes. In Dynamics 365 Supply Chain Management, several key enhancements and new features in 2025 release waves 1 and 2 will improve data quality and add new native capabilities and integrations for key industries.

Priorities in the upcoming release waves for D365 SCM will be to close functional gaps and improve data export and reporting, Microsoft principal solution architect Nicole Joyce told the audience at DynamicsCon 2025. 

2025 Wave 1 for D365 SCM includes release 10.0.43, which reached GA in March, and 10.0.44, which has fewer major features and will reach general availability on June 6. Version 10.0.45 will GA in 2025 Wave 2, with a planned date of September 12. 

In the area of demand forecasting, new features will be enabled by default to improve forecast accuracy, Joyce explained. Some of the capabilities include the ability to allocate demand across different dimensions for assortment planning, establish time freeze periods, and auto-detect seasonality patterns for all forecast algorithms, and the ability to define multiple input signals and choose between multiple forecast algorithms. 

New integration capabilities for contract lifecycle management will allow D365 SCM users to streamline contract creation, negotiation, execution, and renewals. Non-disclosure agreements in an external CLM will become accessible in D365. And the feature’s extensibility will help customers add other contract types and flows. 

The new Advanced Quality Management module aims to minimize reliance on third-party quality management solutions and improve the inventory-to-delivery process. It includes features related to flexible sampling plans, skip-lot testing, quality-order creation triggers, sample management, instrument calibration, and acceptable quality limits testing. It also allows for approved customer lists and customer-specific certificates of analysis. And it will deliver corrective and preventative action (CAPA) management capabilities for non-conformance scenarios. 

Supply chain traceability features are already in public preview but are expected to reach GA in the 10.0.44 release in June as part of Wave 1. The features will provide simplified installation and better integration with manufacturing processes, Joyce told the DynamicsCon audience. It will support disassembly workflows, and simplified processes for single-output manufacturing scenarios. 

The team is still working on the integration of quality management and traceability, and while they are trying to get that into 10.0.44, it may be pushed to a later release wave. And as this feature set improves, it could eventually replace item trace functionality, but Microsoft has no specific plans for such a change.

Microsoft will also be replacing the warehouse management applications with a new one that uses the React platform. It is still in private preview, but a public preview could arrive on June 1. Once it becomes available, anyone using the existing app should be able to deploy the new one and experience the same capabilities but with faster rendering and better overall experiences. 

Joyce also called the audience’s attention to upcoming deprecations including: 

• Inventory transaction support for internal warehouse operations, which is a legacy framework that has been replaced by the Warehouse Inventory Transactions framework
• Job Card terminal, a legacy shop floor interface. Users can switch to the Production Floor Execution interface in 2025 Wave 2 (10.0.45)
• Pricing Management module, which had been in preview and is a legacy module.
• The "Work creation number" number sequence
• 2 mobile device menu items must now use process guide framework
• The ability to update item numbers, which had been in preview

In addition to the major releases, Microsoft now pushes four service updates per year to D365 SCM customers, down from 7 in previous years. And they have introduced an auto-update window, which allows customers to set periods of time in which they can accept changes to align with the timing of critical events in their organizations. In the newest approach, which launched last year, customers can only pause one update, not multiple consecutive updates as they had been able to do in the past. 

For all the areas of feature improvement in D365 SCM, Microsoft is now referencing the corresponding Business Process Catalog elements at different levels of process detail like high level end-to-end processes, process areas, and individual processes. Joyce added that Microsoft has been unifying its explanation of capabilities across the Dynamics 365 Finance and Operations portfolio to reference its core set of processes in the catalog.