Using Microsoft Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations: Learn and understand the Dynamics 365 Supply Chain Management and Finance apps

Preface
Reading this Book
Microsoft Dynamics 365 Product Version
New in This Edition
Applicable Settings
Available Support
Acknowledgments
Table of Contents
1 What is Microsoft Dynamics 365?
1.1 Dynamics 365, Dynamics AX and Axapta
1.2 Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations at a Glance
1.2.1 Functional Capabilities
1.2.2 Implementation
1.2.3 Data Structure
1.2.4 Voucher Principle
2 Getting Started: Navigation and General Options
2.1 User Interface and Common Tasks
2.1.1 Login and Authentication
2.1.2 Navigation
2.1.2.1 Navigation Pane
2.1.2.2 Modules and Menu Structure
2.1.2.3 Recent Pages
2.1.2.4 Navigation Search
2.1.2.5 Favorites and Shared Links
2.1.2.6 Switching the Current Company
2.1.3 Elements of the User Interface
2.1.3.1 Dashboard
2.1.3.2 Navigation Bar
2.1.3.3 Workspaces
2.1.3.4 List Pages
2.1.3.5 Action Pane and Action Search
2.1.3.6 Detail Forms for Master Data
2.1.3.7 Detail Forms for Transaction Data
2.1.3.8 Inquiries and Setup Forms
2.1.3.9 Connected Browser Windows
2.1.4 Working with Records
2.1.4.1 Structure of Pages and Forms
2.1.4.2 Edit Mode and Read Mode
2.1.4.3 Inserting Records
2.1.4.4 Editing Data
2.1.4.5 Deleting Data
2.1.4.6 Elements in List Pages and Detail Forms
2.1.4.7 Lookup Fields and Table Reference
2.1.4.8 Product Information Dialog
2.1.4.9 Segmented Entry Control
2.1.4.10 Message Bar and Action Center
2.1.5 Filtering and Sorting
2.1.5.1 Quick Filter
2.1.5.2 Filter Pane
2.1.5.3 Grid Column Filter
2.1.5.4 Advanced Filter
2.1.5.5 Saving a Filter
2.1.5.6 Sorting
2.1.5.7 Drop-down menu
2.1.5.8 Filter Expressions
2.1.6 Help System
2.1.6.1 Accessing Help
2.1.6.2 Custom Help with Task Guides
2.1.7 Case Study Exercises
2.2 Printing and Reporting
2.2.1 Printing Documents
2.2.1.1 Network Printer Setup
2.2.1.2 Printing Standard Reports
2.2.1.3 Print Preview
2.2.1.4 Print Archive
2.2.1.5 Post and Print
2.2.1.6 Reprinting and Batch Processing
2.2.2 Microsoft Office Integration
2.2.2.1 Static Export to Excel
2.2.2.2 Opening Data in Excel
2.2.2.3 Document Templates for Excel Integration
2.2.3 Case Study Exercise
2.3 Advanced Options
2.3.1 User Options
2.3.1.1 Settings in the User Options
2.3.1.2 Usage Data
2.3.2 Personalization and Saved Views
2.3.2.1 Restricted Personalization and Advanced Grid Capabilities
2.3.2.2 Full Personalization
2.3.2.3 Custom Fields
2.3.2.4 Saved Views
2.3.2.5 Personalization Setup and Management
2.3.3 Record Information and Templates
2.3.3.1 Options in the Record Information Dialog
2.3.3.2 Renaming
2.3.3.3 Show All Fields and the Database Log
2.3.3.4 Record Templates
2.3.4 Case Study Exercises
2.4 Global Address Book
2.4.1 Parties and Addresses
2.4.1.1 Creating Parties in the Global Address Book
2.4.1.2 Indirectly Creating Parties
2.4.1.3 Internal Organizations
2.4.2 Address Books
2.4.2.1 Party Roles
2.4.2.2 Address Book Parameters
2.4.3 Case Study Exercise
3 Purchase Management
3.1 Business Processes in Purchasing
3.1.1 Basic Approach
3.1.1.1 Master Data and Transactions in Purchasing
3.1.1.2 Material Requirement, Purchase Requisition, and Request for Quotation
3.1.1.3 Purchase Order
3.1.1.4 Product Receipt, Vendor Invoice, and Vendor Payment
3.1.1.5 Ledger Integration and Voucher Principle
3.1.2 At a Glance: Purchase Order Processing
3.2 Vendor Management
3.2.1 Vendor Records
3.2.1.1 Entering New Vendors
3.2.1.2 Global Address Book Integration
3.2.1.3 General Data
3.2.1.4 Input Tax
3.2.1.5 Settings for Delivery and Payment
3.2.1.6 Postal Addresses
3.2.1.7 Contact Information
3.2.1.8 Features in the Vendor Page
3.2.1.9 Vendor Approval
3.2.1.10 One-time Vendors
3.2.1.11 Sharing Vendors across Companies
3.2.1.12 Vendor Collaboration
3.2.2 Payment Terms and Cash Discounts
3.2.2.1 Terms of Payment
3.2.2.2 Cash on Delivery
3.2.2.3 Cash Discounts
3.2.3 Ledger Integration
3.2.3.1 Subledger and General Ledger
3.2.3.2 Settings for Vendor Transactions
3.2.4 Case Study Exercises
3.3 Product Management in Purchasing
3.3.1 Product Categories and Procurement Categories
3.3.1.1 Category Hierarchies and Product Categories
3.3.1.2 Procurement Categories
3.3.2 Basic Product Data
3.3.2.1 Shared Products
3.3.2.2 Releasing a Product
3.3.2.3 Managing Released Products
3.3.2.4 Purchasing Related Data and Default Order Settings
3.3.3 Purchase Price Setup
3.3.3.1 Base Purchase Price
3.3.3.2 Automatic Price Update
3.3.3.3 Price Charges
3.3.4 Case Study Exercises
3.4 Purchase Order Management
3.4.1 Basics of Purchase Order Processing
3.4.1.1 Approving and Confirming Purchase Orders
3.4.1.2 Receipts List and Inventory Registration
3.4.1.3 Product Receipts
3.4.1.4 Vendor Invoices
3.4.1.5 Physical and Financial Transactions
3.4.2 Purchase Order Registration
3.4.2.1 Entering a Purchase Order
3.4.2.2 Purchase Order Lines
3.4.2.3 Inventory Transactions
3.4.2.4 Intangible Items and Procurement Categories
3.4.2.5 Delivery Addresses
3.4.2.6 Input Tax (Sales Tax)
3.4.2.7 Charges
3.4.2.8 Delivery Schedule
3.4.2.9 Header View and Lines View
3.4.2.10 Copying a Purchase Order
3.4.2.11 Purchase Journal Orders
3.4.3 Change Management and Purchase Order Approval
3.4.3.1 Change Management Settings
3.4.3.2 Approval Status
3.4.3.3 Approval Workflow for Purchase Orders
3.4.3.4 Request Changes
3.4.4 Canceling and Deleting Purchase Orders
3.4.4.1 Canceling an Order or Order Line
3.4.4.2 Deleting Purchase Orders and Order Lines
3.4.5 Purchase Inquiries and Order Confirmations
3.4.5.1 Purchase Inquiries
3.4.5.2 Purchase Order Confirmations
3.4.5.3 Posting Dialog for Order Updates
3.4.5.4 Pro Forma Documents
3.4.5.5 Summary Updates
3.4.5.6 Inquiries and Document Reprint
3.4.6 Case Study Exercises
3.5 Item Receipt
3.5.1 Basics of Item Receipts
3.5.2 Receipts Lists
3.5.3 Inventory Registration
3.5.3.1 Registration in a Purchase Order Line
3.5.3.2 Registration Status
3.5.3.3 Item Arrival Journals
3.5.3.4 Arrival Overview
3.5.3.5 Reversing an Inventory Registration
3.5.4 Product Receipts
3.5.4.1 Posting Dialog for Product Receipts
3.5.4.2 Product Receipts in Summary Updates and Item Arrival Journals
3.5.4.3 Canceling a Product Receipt
3.5.4.4 Ledger Integration and Settings for Product Receipt Posting
3.5.5 Partial Delivery, Underdelivery, and Overdelivery
3.5.5.1 Inventory Registration of Partial Deliveries
3.5.5.2 Product Receipt of Partial Deliveries
3.5.5.3 Underdelivery and Overdelivery
3.5.6 Order Status and Inquiries
3.5.6.1 Purchase Order Status
3.5.6.2 Inventory Transaction Status
3.5.6.3 Product Receipt Inquiry
3.5.6.4 Ledger Transactions and Transaction Origin
3.5.7 Case Study Exercises
3.6 Vendor Invoice
3.6.1 Processing Vendor Invoices
3.6.1.1 Registering a Vendor Invoice
3.6.1.2 Collective Vendor Invoices
3.6.1.3 Invoice Matching
3.6.1.4 Posting a Vendor Invoice
3.6.1.5 Invoices without Order Reference
3.6.2 Order Status and Inquiries
3.6.2.1 Purchase Order Status and Transaction Status
3.6.2.2 Invoice Inquiry
3.6.2.3 Ledger Transactions and Transaction Origin
3.6.3 Case Study Exercises
3.7 Vendor Credit Note and Item Return
3.7.1 Crediting and Returning
3.7.1.1 Credit Note in the Original Purchase Order
3.7.1.2 Credit Note in a New Order
3.7.1.3 Inventory Marking
3.7.1.4 Transaction Settlement
3.7.2 Credit Notes without Item Return
3.7.2.1 Crediting and Re-Invoicing
3.7.2.2 Crediting and Allocating Charges
3.7.3 Case Study Exercise
3.8 Purchase Agreement, Requisition, and Quotation Request
3.8.1 Purchase Agreements
3.8.1.1 Managing Purchase Agreements
3.8.1.2 Release Orders
3.8.2 Purchase Requisitions
3.8.2.1 Prerequisites for Processing Purchase Requisitions
3.8.2.2 Entering Purchase Requisitions
3.8.2.3 Approval Workflow
3.8.2.4 Creating a Purchase Order
3.8.3 Requests for Quotation
3.8.3.1 Entering Requests for Quotation
3.8.3.2 Sending Requests to Vendors
3.8.3.3 Request for Quotation Replies
3.8.3.4 Approving and Rejecting Replies
3.8.4 Case Study Exercise
4 Sales and Distribution
4.1 Business Processes in Sales and Distribution
4.1.1 Basic Approach
4.1.1.1 Master Data and Transactions in Sales
4.1.1.2 Sales Quotation
4.1.1.3 Sales Order
4.1.1.4 Picking and Shipment
4.1.1.5 Invoicing
4.1.1.6 Customer Payment
4.1.1.7 Ledger Integration and Voucher Principle
4.1.2 At a Glance: Sales Order Processing
4.2 Customer Management
4.2.1 Core Data in the Customer Records
4.2.1.1 Create Customer Dialog
4.2.1.2 Customer Detail Form
4.2.1.3 Invoice Account
4.2.1.4 Alternative Addresses and Global Address Book Integration
4.2.1.5 Credit Limit
4.2.1.6 Print Management
4.2.1.7 Advanced Notes
4.2.2 Case Study Exercise
4.3 Product Management in Sales
4.3.1 Product Data and Sales Categories
4.3.1.1 Sales Categories
4.3.1.2 Entering New Products
4.3.1.3 Sales Related Data
4.3.2 Sales Price and Discount Setup
4.3.2.1 Base Sales Price
4.3.2.2 Discount Groups
4.3.2.3 Structure of Trade Agreements
4.3.2.4 Managing Trade Agreements for Sales Prices
4.3.2.5 Updating or Deleting Trade Agreements
4.3.2.6 Managing Line Discount Agreements
4.3.2.7 Managing Multiline Discounts and Total Discounts
4.3.2.8 Required Setup for Prices and Discounts
4.3.2.9 Ledger Integration for Discounts
4.3.3 Case Study Exercises
4.4 Sales Order Management
4.4.1 Basics of Sales Order Processing
4.4.2 Sales Quotations
4.4.2.1 Managing Prospects
4.4.2.2 Processing Sales Quotations
4.4.3 Sales Order Registration
4.4.3.1 Entering a Sales Order
4.4.3.2 Keyword Search
4.4.3.3 Sales Order Holds and Line Blocking
4.4.3.4 Delivery Address and Invoice Address
4.4.3.5 Item Lists
4.4.3.6 Delivery Date Control
4.4.3.7 Item Availability and Delivery Alternatives
4.4.4 Order Prices and Discounts
4.4.4.1 Sales Price Calculation
4.4.4.2 Discount Calculation
4.4.5 Surcharge Management
4.4.5.1 Charges Codes
4.4.5.2 Manual Charges
4.4.5.3 Auto Charges
4.4.6 Sales Order Confirmations
4.4.6.1 Posting Dialog for Sales Order Confirmations
4.4.6.2 Order Confirmation Inquiry
4.4.7 Case Study Exercises
4.5 Order Picking and Shipment
4.5.1 Basics of Picking and Shipping
4.5.1.1 Picking Policy
4.5.1.2 Core Settings for Picking
4.5.2 Pick Form and Picking Lists
4.5.2.1 Pick Form
4.5.2.2 Picking Lists
4.5.2.3 Picking List Registration
4.5.2.4 Release Sales Order Picking
4.5.2.5 Reverse Pick Transactions
4.5.3 Picking Workbench
4.5.3.1 Setup for the Picking Workbench
4.5.3.2 Working with the Picking Workbench
4.5.4 Packing Slips
4.5.4.1 Posting Dialog for Packing Slips
4.5.4.2 Ledger Integration
4.5.4.3 Transaction Inquiry
4.5.4.4 Canceling a Packing Slip
4.5.5 Case Study Exercises
4.6 Sales Invoice
4.6.1 Sales Order Invoices
4.6.1.1 Posting Dialog for Sales Order Invoices
4.6.1.2 Transaction Inquiry
4.6.1.3 Ledger Transactions and Transaction Origin
4.6.2 Collective Invoices
4.6.2.1 Setup for Summary Updates
4.6.2.2 Posting Collective Invoices
4.6.3 Free Text Invoices
4.6.3.1 Registering Free Text Invoices
4.6.3.2 Posting and Inquiry
4.6.3.3 Recurring Free Text Invoices
4.6.4 Case Study Exercises
4.7 Sales Credit Note and Item Return
4.7.1 Return Order Management
4.7.1.1 Disposition Codes and Required Setup
4.7.1.2 Return Order Registration
4.7.1.3 Return Orders without Physical Returns
4.7.1.4 Return Orders – Item Arrival and Credit Note
4.7.2 Simple Credit Notes
4.7.2.1 Credit Note from a Sales Order
4.7.2.2 Inventory Valuation for Returned Items
4.7.2.3 Scrapping Items
4.7.2.4 Refunds not Related to Item Returns
4.7.3 Case Study Exercise
4.8 Direct Delivery
4.8.1 Processing Direct Deliveries
4.8.1.1 Regular Purchase Order from a Sales Order
4.8.1.2 Direct Delivery Purchase Order from a Sales Order
4.8.1.3 Delivery Type for Direct Delivery
4.8.1.4 Settings in the Released Product
4.8.1.5 Direct Delivery Workbench
4.8.1.6 Links between Purchase and Sales Order
4.8.2 Case Study Exercise
4.9 Rebate Management and Trade Allowances
4.9.1 Trade Allowances
4.9.1.1 Required Setup for Trade Allowances
4.9.1.2 Funds and Other Optional Settings
4.9.1.3 Managing Trade Allowance Agreements
4.9.1.4 Lump Sum Agreements
4.9.1.5 Processing Bill Back Agreements
4.9.1.6 Canceling and Purging Rebates
4.9.1.7 Deductions and One-Time Promotions
4.9.2 Broker Contracts
4.9.2.1 Required Setup for Broker Contracts
4.9.2.2 Entering and Processing Broker Contracts
4.9.3 Royalty Agreements
4.9.4 Vendor Rebates
4.9.5 Rebate Management Deals
4.9.5.1 Setup for Rebate Management
4.9.5.2 Managing Rebate Management Deals
4.9.5.3 Processing Rebate Management Deals for Customers
5 Production Control
5.1 Business Processes in Manufacturing
5.1.1 Basic Approach
5.1.1.1 Master Data and Transactions in Production Control
5.1.1.2 Demand and Supply Planning
5.1.1.3 Creating Production Orders
5.1.1.4 Estimation and Scheduling
5.1.1.5 Releasing and Starting
5.1.1.6 Production Journals
5.1.1.7 Reporting as Finished and Ending
5.1.1.8 Ledger Integration and Voucher Principle
5.1.2 At a Glance: Production Order Processing
5.2 Product Management and Bill of Materials
5.2.1 Product Data in Manufacturing
5.2.1.1 Item Model Group, Production Type and Default Order Type
5.2.1.2 Settings for Quantity and Price
5.2.1.3 Phantom Items
5.2.1.4 Flushing Principle
5.2.2 Bills of Materials (BOM)
5.2.2.1 Bill of Materials Structure
5.2.2.2 Entering Bills of Materials and BOM Versions
5.2.2.3 BOM Lines
5.2.2.4 Approving and Activating Bills of Materials
5.2.2.5 Bills of Materials in the Released Product
5.2.2.6 BOM Designer
5.2.2.7 Block BOM for Editing
5.2.2.8 Where-Used
5.2.3 Case Study Exercises
5.3 Resource and Route Management
5.3.1 Working Time Calendars and Templates
5.3.2 Resource Groups and Resource Management
5.3.2.1 Production Units
5.3.2.2 Resource Groups
5.3.2.3 Resources
5.3.2.4 Resource Capacity and Operation Settings
5.3.2.5 Resource Capabilities
5.3.2.6 Settings for Ledger Integration
5.3.3 Routes and Operations
5.3.3.1 Setup of Operations
5.3.3.2 Operation Sequence
5.3.3.3 Entering Routes and Route Versions
5.3.3.4 Route Operations
5.3.3.5 Route Groups
5.3.3.6 Costing Resource and Cost Categories
5.3.3.7 Operation Times
5.3.3.8 Resource Requirements and Resource Load
5.3.3.9 Approving and Activating Routes
5.3.3.10 Routes in the Released Product
5.3.4 Case Study Exercises
5.4 Production Order Management
5.4.1 Basics of Production Order Processing
5.4.1.1 Production Order Status
5.4.1.2 Production Control Parameters
5.4.1.3 Scheduling Parameters
5.4.2 Production Order Registration
5.4.2.1 Entering a New Production Order
5.4.2.2 Production BOM and Route
5.4.3 Processing Production Orders
5.4.3.1 Default Values in Update Dialogs
5.4.3.2 Estimation
5.4.3.3 Scheduling
5.4.3.4 Gantt Chart
5.4.3.5 Releasing
5.4.3.6 Starting
5.4.4 Case Study Exercises
5.5 Consumption of Material and Resource Capacity
5.5.1 Journal Setup and Ledger Integration
5.5.1.1 Journal Setup
5.5.1.2 Ledger Integration
5.5.2 Picking Lists
5.5.2.1 Creating Picking List Journals
5.5.2.2 Journal Lines
5.5.2.3 Inquiries and Reversal
5.5.3 Resource Usage
5.5.3.1 Route Cards and Job Cards
5.5.3.2 Journal Registration of Resource Usage
5.5.3.3 Reporting as Finished in Route Cards and Job Cards
5.5.4 Case Study Exercises
5.6 Reporting as Finished and Ending Production
5.6.1 Reporting as Finished
5.6.1.1 Order Status Updates
5.6.1.2 Production Journals
5.6.1.3 Automatic Consumption
5.6.1.4 Ledger Integration
5.6.1.5 Reporting Scrap
5.6.2 Ending and Costing
5.6.2.1 Ending
5.6.2.2 Costing
5.6.2.3 Ledger Integration and Inquiries
5.6.3 Case Study Exercise
5.7 Subcontracting
5.7.1 External Resources
5.7.2 Purchased Services
5.7.2.1 Master Data for Purchased Services
5.7.2.2 Production Orders with Purchased Services
5.7.2.3 Item Transfer to Subcontractors
5.7.3 Case Study Exercise
5.8 Formula and Batch Production Order
5.8.1 Formula Management
5.8.1.1 Product Data for Formulas
5.8.1.2 Working with Formulas
5.8.2 Batch Production Orders
6 Forecasts and Master Planning
6.1 Business Processes in Master Planning
6.1.1 Basic Approach
6.1.1.1 Forecasting
6.1.1.2 Master Planning and Planning Optimization
6.1.2 At a Glance: Master Planning
6.2 Forecasting
6.2.1 Basics of Forecasting
6.2.1.1 Demand Forecasts
6.2.1.2 Supply Forecasts
6.2.1.3 Forecast Planning
6.2.1.4 Forecasts in Master Planning
6.2.2 Forecast Settings
6.2.2.1 Forecast Models
6.2.2.2 Forecast Plans
6.2.2.3 Parameters and Item Allocation Keys
6.2.3 Forecasts and Forecast Planning
6.2.3.1 Manual Demand Forecasts
6.2.3.2 Azure Machine Learning-Based Demand Forecasting
6.2.3.3 Supply Forecasts and Inventory Forecasts
6.2.3.4 Forecast Planning
6.2.3.5 Budget Transfer
6.2.4 Case Study Exercises
6.3 Master Planning and Planning Optimization
6.3.1 Basics of Master Planning
6.3.1.1 Master Planning Strategies
6.3.1.2 Customer Order Decoupling Point
6.3.1.3 Master Planning and Planned Orders
6.3.2 Planning Optimization
6.3.2.1 Technical Overview and Implementation
6.3.2.2 Differences to the Built-In Master Planning Engine
6.3.2.3 Using the Planning Optimization
6.3.3 Master Planning Setup
6.3.3.1 Master Plans
6.3.3.2 Master Planning Parameters
6.3.3.3 Warehouse and Site Settings
6.3.4 Item Coverage and Item Settings
6.3.4.1 Coverage Principle
6.3.4.2 Managing Coverage Groups
6.3.4.3 Forecasts and Reduction Keys
6.3.4.4 Settings for Calculated Delays and Action Messages
6.3.4.5 Assigning Coverage Groups to Items
6.3.4.6 Dimension Group Settings
6.3.4.7 Item Coverage
6.3.5 Master Planning and Planned Orders
6.3.5.1 Global Master Planning
6.3.5.2 Local Master Planning
6.3.5.3 Action Messages and Calculated Delays
6.3.5.4 Working with Planned Orders
6.3.5.5 Firming Planned Orders
6.3.5.6 Net Requirements and Explosion
6.3.5.7 Supply schedule
6.3.6 Case Study Exercises
7 Inventory and Product Management
7.1 Principles of Inventory Transactions
7.1.1 Basic Approach
7.1.1.1 Types of Transactions
7.1.1.2 Transactions from Other Areas
7.1.1.3 Inventory Quantity and Value
7.1.1.4 Posting Inventory Transactions
7.1.1.5 Inventory Closing
7.1.1.6 Ledger Integration
7.1.2 At a Glance: Inventory Journal Transactions
7.2 Product Information Management
7.2.1 General Product Data
7.2.1.1 Structure of Product Data
7.2.1.2 Entering Shared Products
7.2.1.3 Product Numbers and Names
7.2.1.4 Product Type and Subtype
7.2.1.5 Product Masters
7.2.1.6 Core Settings in Released Products
7.2.1.7 Units of Measure
7.2.1.8 Item Groups
7.2.1.9 Non-Inventoried Items and Services
7.2.1.10 Product Lifecycle State
7.2.1.11 Catch Weight Products
7.2.2 Inventory Dimension Groups
7.2.2.1 Available Dimensions
7.2.2.2 Dimension Groups and Settings
7.2.2.3 Dimension Groups in the Released Product
7.2.2.4 Number Groups for Tracking Dimensions
7.2.2.5 Simplified Serial Number Control in Sales Processes
7.2.2.6 Dimension Display Settings
7.2.3 Item Model Groups
7.2.3.1 Settings on Item Handling
7.2.3.2 Negative Inventory
7.2.3.3 Inventory Model
7.2.4 Transactions and Inventory Quantity
7.2.4.1 Inventory Transactions Inquiry and Cost Entries
7.2.4.2 Physical and Financial Transaction
7.2.4.3 Inventory Picking and Registration
7.2.4.4 Transaction Details and Ledger Integration
7.2.4.5 On-Hand Inventory Inquiry
7.2.4.6 On-Hand Inventory Details
7.2.4.7 On Hand Inventory in the Past
7.2.5 Engineering Change Management
7.2.5.1 Required Setup for Engineering Change Management
7.2.5.2 Creating an Engineering Product
7.2.5.3 Working with an Engineering Product
7.2.5.4 Version Changes of an Engineering Product
7.2.6 Case Study Exercises
7.3 Inventory Valuation and Cost Management
7.3.1 Valuation and Cost Flow
7.3.1.1 Basics of Inventory Valuation
7.3.1.2 Valuation of Item Receipts
7.3.1.3 Valuation of Item Issues
7.3.1.4 Standard Cost Price
7.3.1.5 Fixed Receipt Price
7.3.1.6 Moving Average Price
7.3.1.7 Inventory Value Calculation
7.3.1.8 Financial Inventory Dimensions and Inventory Marking
7.3.1.9 Inventory Value Report and Cost Explorer
7.3.2 Inventory Closing and Adjustment
7.3.2.1 Inventory Closing
7.3.2.2 Manual Adjustment of Inventory Value
7.3.3 Product Cost Management
7.3.3.1 Item Base Cost Price
7.3.3.2 Costing Versions and Item Price Form
7.3.3.3 Calculation Groups
7.3.3.4 Cost Groups
7.3.3.5 Costing Sheet
7.3.3.6 Item Price Calculation
7.3.4 Case Study Exercises
7.4 Business Processes in Inventory
7.4.1 Inventory Structures and Parameters
7.4.1.1 Warehouse Setup
7.4.1.2 Storage Dimensions
7.4.1.3 Inventory Parameters and Journal Setup
7.4.2 Inventory Journals
7.4.2.1 Journal Structure
7.4.2.2 Movement Journals and Inventory Adjustment Journals
7.4.2.3 Transfer Journals
7.4.2.4 BOM Journals
7.4.2.5 Item Arrival Journals
7.4.3 Inventory Counting
7.4.3.1 Counting Journals
7.4.3.2 Warehouse Items
7.4.3.3 Counting Groups
7.4.3.4 Reason Codes for Counting
7.4.3.5 Tag Counting
7.4.4 Transfer Orders
7.4.4.1 Setup for Transfer Orders
7.4.4.2 Processing Transfer Orders
7.4.5 Item Reservation
7.4.5.1 Setup for Reservation
7.4.5.2 Working with Reservations
7.4.5.3 Removing a Reservation
7.4.6 Quarantine and Inventory Blocking
7.4.6.1 Setup for Quarantine Management
7.4.6.2 Manual Quarantine
7.4.6.3 Automatic Quarantine
7.4.6.4 Inventory Blocking
7.4.7 Quality Management
7.4.7.1 Setup for Quality Control
7.4.7.2 Processing Quality Orders
7.4.8 Consignment Inventory
7.4.8.1 Setup for Consignment Inventory
7.4.8.2 Working with Consignment Inventory
7.4.9 Case Study Exercises
8 Warehouse and Transportation Management
8.1 Advanced Warehouse Management
8.1.1 Core Setup for Warehouse Management
8.1.1.1 Parameters and Mobile Device Access
8.1.1.2 Inventory Status
8.1.1.3 Warehouse-Related Settings
8.1.1.4 Basic Setup for Warehouse Work
8.1.1.5 Basic Setup for Shipments
8.1.1.6 Setup for Mobile Devices
8.1.1.7 Warehouse Worker and Work User
8.1.1.8 Product-Related Settings
8.1.2 Core Warehouse Processes
8.1.2.1 Purchase Order Receipt
8.1.2.2 Sales Order Shipment
8.1.3 Advanced Options for Inbound and Outbound Processes
8.1.3.1 Task Automation
8.1.3.2 Options for Purchase Receipts
8.1.3.3 Storage Utilization and Limits
8.1.3.4 Directive Codes
8.1.3.5 Staging
8.1.3.6 Work Pools
8.1.3.7 Transfer Orders
8.1.3.8 Production Orders
8.1.3.9 Canceling Warehouse Work
8.1.4 Tasks within the Warehouse
8.1.4.1 Inventory Blocking
8.1.4.2 Movements and Adjustments
8.1.4.3 Inventory Counting
8.1.4.4 Replenishment
8.1.4.5 Warehouse Inquiries
8.1.5 Case Study Exercises
8.2 Transportation Management
8.2.1 Core Setup for Transportation Management
8.2.1.1 Transportation Engines
8.2.1.2 Transportation Methods and Shipping Carriers
8.2.1.3 Break Masters, Rate Masters and Rating Profiles
8.2.1.4 Transportation Management Parameters
8.2.1.5 Load Templates and Load Posting Methods
8.2.1.6 Settings in the Released Products
8.2.1.7 Check of the Rate Calculation
8.2.2 Managing Transportation Processes
8.2.2.1 Core Transportation Process
8.2.2.2 Transportation Tenders
8.2.2.3 Warehouse Appointments
8.2.2.4 Transportation Constraints
8.2.2.5 Segmented Transports
8.2.2.6 Customer Rate Adjustment
8.2.2.7 Charging Freight to the Customer
8.2.2.8 Freight Invoice Matching
8.2.3 Case Study Exercises
9 Financial Management
9.1 Business Processes in Finance
9.1.1 Basic Approach
9.1.2 At a Glance: Ledger Journal Transactions
9.2 Core Setup for Finance
9.2.1 Fiscal and Ledger Calendars
9.2.1.1 Fiscal Calendars
9.2.1.2 Opening Periods and Closing Periods
9.2.1.3 Ledger Calendars
9.2.2 Currencies and Exchange Rates
9.2.2.1 Currencies
9.2.2.2 Exchange Rates
9.2.2.3 Currency Settings in the Ledger Form
9.2.3 Financial Dimensions
9.2.3.1 Setup of Financial Dimensions
9.2.3.2 Financial Dimension Values
9.2.3.3 Using Financial Dimensions
9.2.3.4 Balancing Financial Dimension and Interunit Accounting
9.2.4 Account Structures and Chart of Accounts
9.2.4.1 Ledger Account and Main Account
9.2.4.2 Charts of Accounts
9.2.4.3 Settings in the Ledger Form
9.2.4.4 Account Structures
9.2.4.5 Advanced Rule Structures
9.2.4.6 Main Accounts
9.2.4.7 Transaction Inquiry and Trial Balance
9.2.4.8 Accounts for Automatic Transactions
9.2.4.9 Default Descriptions
9.2.5 Customers, Vendors, and Bank Accounts
9.2.5.1 Bank Accounts
9.2.5.2 Vendors
9.2.5.3 Settlement of Vendor Transactions
9.2.5.4 Customers
9.2.6 Customer Credit Management
9.2.6.1 Credit Management Setup
9.2.6.2 Working with Credit Holds
9.2.6.3 Adjusting the Credit Limit
9.2.7 Sales Tax / VAT Settings
9.2.7.1 Sales Tax Parameters
9.2.7.2 Sales Tax Authorities
9.2.7.3 Sales Tax Settlement Periods
9.2.7.4 Ledger Posting Groups
9.2.7.5 Sales Tax Codes
9.2.7.6 Sales Tax Groups and Item Sales Tax Groups
9.2.7.7 Sales Tax Transactions
9.2.7.8 Tax Calculation Service
9.2.8 Basic Setup for Journal Transactions
9.2.8.9 Journal Names
9.2.8.10 Journal Approval
9.2.8.11 Posting Layers
9.2.8.12 General Ledger Parameters
9.2.9 Case Study Exercises
9.3 Transactions in Finance
9.3.1 General Journals
9.3.1.1 Journal Header
9.3.1.2 Journal Lines
9.3.1.3 Segmented Entry Control
9.3.1.4 Posting Financial Journals
9.3.1.5 Global General Journals
9.3.1.6 Journal Approval System
9.3.1.7 Periodic Journals and Voucher Templates
9.3.2 Invoice Posting
9.3.2.1 Invoices in the General Journal
9.3.2.2 Options for Vendor Invoice Posting
9.3.2.3 Invoice Journals
9.3.2.4 Invoice Registers
9.3.2.5 Invoice Approval Journals
9.3.2.6 Rejecting Invoice Approval
9.3.2.7 Invoice Pool
9.3.3 Payments
9.3.3.1 Open Transactions
9.3.3.2 Customer Payments
9.3.3.3 Vendor Payments
9.3.3.4 Methods of Payment
9.3.3.5 Vendor Payment Proposals
9.3.3.6 Exporting and Posting Payments
9.3.3.7 Bridging Transactions
9.3.3.8 Centralized Payments
9.3.4 Transaction Reversal and Reversing Entries
9.3.4.1 Transaction Reversal
9.3.4.2 Automatic Reversal with Reversing Entries
9.3.5 Case Study Exercises
9.4 Ledger Integration
9.4.1 Basics of Ledger Integration
9.4.1.1 Basic Settings
9.4.1.2 Vendors and Customers
9.4.1.3 Subledger Accounting
9.4.2 Ledger Integration in Inventory
9.4.2.1 Physical Transactions
9.4.2.2 Financial Transactions
9.4.2.3 Posting Setup
9.4.2.4 Transaction Combinations and Ledger Reconciliation
9.4.2.5 Example – Transactions Related to Sales Order Processing
9.4.2.6 Standard Cost Price and Moving Average
9.4.2.7 Service Items and Non-Stocked Items
9.4.2.8 Changes of Settings
9.4.3 Ledger Integration in Production
9.4.3.1 Production Control Parameters
9.4.3.2 Ledger Transactions in Production
10 Core Setup and Essential Features
10.1 Organizational Structures
10.1.1 Organization Model Architecture
10.1.1.1 Organization Types
10.1.1.2 Using the Organization Model within Dynamics 365
10.1.2 Organization Units
10.1.2.1 Legal Entities
10.1.2.2 Operating Units
10.1.2.3 Teams
10.1.3 Organization Hierarchy Structures
10.1.3.1 Organization Hierarchies
10.1.3.2 Organization Hierarchy Purposes
10.1.4 Legal Entities (Company Accounts)
10.1.4.1 Company Setup
10.1.4.2 Companies in the Data Structure
10.1.4.3 Company Banner in the Dashboard
10.1.5 Cross-Company Data Sharing
10.1.5.1 Setup of Cross-Company Data Sharing
10.1.5.2 Working with Cross-Company Data Sharing
10.1.6 Sites
10.1.6.1 Multisite Functionality
10.1.6.2 Setup of Sites
10.1.6.3 Production Units
10.1.6.4 Linking Sites to the Organization Model
10.2 User and Security Management
10.2.1 Access Control
10.2.2 Users and Employees
10.2.2.1 Entering User Accounts
10.2.2.2 Security Roles and Permission Assignment
10.2.2.3 User Options
10.2.2.4 Assigning Employees to Users
10.2.2.5 Employee Management
10.2.2.6 Online Users
10.2.2.7 User Groups
10.2.3 Role-Based Security
10.2.3.1 Security Model
10.2.3.2 Managing the Security Configuration
10.2.3.3 Security Diagnostics
10.2.3.4 Segregation of Duties
10.3 Common Settings
10.3.1 Number Sequences
10.3.1.1 Number Sequence Setup
10.3.1.2 Number Sequence References
10.3.1.3 General Settings in Number Sequences
10.3.1.4 Preallocation of Numbers
10.3.2 Calendars
10.3.2.1 Ledger Calendars
10.3.2.2 Other Calendars
10.3.3 Address Setup
10.3.4 Parameters
10.4 Alerts and Workflow Management
10.4.1 Alert Rules and Notifications
10.4.1.1 Alert Rules
10.4.1.2 Alert Processing and Notifications
10.4.2 Configuring Workflows
10.4.2.1 Graphical Workflow Editor
10.4.2.2 Work Item Queues
10.4.2.3 Workflow Versions
10.4.2.4 Entering Workflows
10.4.2.5 Basic Setup for Workflows
10.4.3 Working with Workflows
10.4.3.1 Start of Workflow Processing
10.4.3.2 Work Items in Approval Workflows
10.4.3.3 Working with Work Item Queues
10.5 Other Features
10.5.1 Document Management
10.5.1.1 Document Types and Document Management Setup
10.5.1.2 Attachment Form for Document Handling
10.5.1.3 Document History and Recycle Bin
10.5.2 Case Management
10.5.2.1 Setup for Case Management
10.5.2.2 Processing Cases
10.5.2.3 Product Change Cases
10.5.3 Task Recorder and Task Guide
10.5.4 Feature Management and License Configuration
Appendix
Setup Checklist
Commands and Keyboard Shortcuts
Bibliography
Index