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This post is part of the New Functionality In Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central 2025 Wave 1 series in which I am taking a look at the new functionality introduced in Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central 2025 Wave 1.

The 5th of the new functionality in the Supply chain management section is handle production output with warehouse put-aways.

In this release, you can use warehouse put-aways for production outputs, which means you can use the same warehouse process for production outputs as you use for other receipts. Using the same process makes things easier because you don’t have to switch between different types of document. Also, it’s especially valuable for advanced configurations where Directed Put-Away and Pick is enabled because inventory put-away documents aren’t available.

Enabled for: Users by admins, makers, or analysts
Public Preview: –
General Availability: Apr 2025

Feature Details

Set-up instructions

To enable this feature, on the Location Card page, in the Prod Output Whse Handling field, select Warehouse Put-away.

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This post is part of the New Functionality In Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central 2025 Wave 1 series in which I am taking a look at the new functionality introduced in Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central 2025 Wave 1.

The 4th of the new functionality in the Supply chain management section is avoid document number errors when you post project journals.

Business Central helps reduce or eliminate friction when you work with documents and journals. If you use a number series for project journal batches, you won’t be able to post the journal if the document numbers aren’t in consecutive order. To avoid getting stuck, you can fix errors related to the order of document numbers when you post project journals.

Enabled for: Users, automatically
Public Preview: –
General Availability: Apr 2025

Feature Details

On the Project Journals page, the Document No. field is editable so that you can specify different document numbers for different journal lines, or the same document number for related journal lines.

If a number series is specified in the No. Series field on the project journal batch, document numbers for individual or grouped lines must be in sequential order when you post a project journal. If they aren’t, you can’t post the journal. To avoid getting stuck, you can use the Renumber Document Numbers action on the Project Journals page before you post the journal. If related journal lines were grouped by document number before you used the action, they’ll stay grouped but might be assigned a different document number.

The Renumber Document Numbers action also works on filtered views.

This post is part of the New Functionality In Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central 2025 Wave 1 series in which I am taking a look at the new functionality introduced in Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central 2025 Wave 1.

The 3rd of the new functionality in the Supply chain management section is block items or variants from production output.

Business Central gives you full control over the materials you use in production. You can prevent specific items and item variants from being used as production output. For example, blocking items can be useful if you want to restrict replenishment because you’ve started to produce another model, but want to be able to sell the remaining stock.

Enabled for: Users, automatically
Public Preview: –
General Availability: Apr 2025

Feature Details

You can block an item or an item variant from being used for production output. To block an item or variant from production, on the Item Card, Item Variants, and Item Variant Card pages, turn on the Production Blocked toggle. You can also set this field on the Item Template page, so Business Central copies your setting to new items created from the template.

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This post is part of the New Functionality In Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central 2025 Wave 1 series in which I am taking a look at the new functionality introduced in Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central 2025 Wave 1.

The 2nd of the new functionality in the Supply chain management section is add more columns to various pages to gain more insight.

Different businesses and users need different information to complete business processes. Personalization is a powerful tool that lets people tailor the information that pages contain by dragging fields or columns from a list to the page. Based on feedback from the community, Microsoft have added more fields and columns to choose from on several pages.

Enabled for: Users, automatically
Public Preview: –
General Availability: Apr 2025

Feature Details

Ship-to Name 2 field

You can add the Name 2 field to pages for all sales, service, projects, purchase drafts, and posted and archived documents.

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This post is part of the New Functionality In Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central 2025 Wave 1 series in which I am taking a look at the new functionality introduced in Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central 2025 Wave 1.

The 1st of the new functionality in the Supply chain management section is use enhanced customer document layout for service management.

Businesses deal with multiple customer and vendor contacts who are responsible for different areas of operation. For example, accountants, purchasers, and warehouse staff. Because their interests typically differ, you’ll probably want to generate and send different types of documents to them. You can now save time when you send documents to different customer or vendor contacts by setting up specific contacts to use with specific documents. For example, send service invoices to accountant contacts and service orders to your customers’ purchasers.

Enabled for: Users, automatically
Public Preview: –
General Availability: Apr 2025

Feature Details

You can now populate the Document Layouts page for vendors and customers based on settings on the Report Selection page. To send specific documents to specific company contacts, choose the company contacts to use for specific document layouts.

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This post is part of the New Functionality In Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central 2025 Wave 1 series in which I am taking a look at the new functionality introduced in Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central 2025 Wave 1.

The 3rd of the new functionality in the Reporting and data analysis section is use enhanced Financial Reporting capabilities.

The no-code Financial Reporting feature offers significant benefits to finance departments by enabling self-service financial reporting and statements without the need for developer assistance. The enhancements in the release wave boost productivity by allowing report viewers to hide empty rows, and report owners to document usage, write introductory and closing paragraphs, save and run reports using Excel templates, and schedule report runs. Additionally, administrators can see required permissions and access telemetry for report usage and lifecycle events.

Overall, these improvements streamline financial reporting processes, saving time and resources while improving accuracy and accessibility.

Enabled for: Users, automatically
Public Preview: –
General Availability: Apr 2025

Feature Details

In this release wave, Microsoft have enhanced the Financial Reporting feature with capabilities for report viewers, report authors, and administrators.
Financial report viewers can:

• Choose to hide empty rows when they view a financial report.

Financial report owners can:

• Document the use of the report (using an internal description field).
• Write introduction and closing paragraphs for their reports.
• Save their Excel templates in Business Central.
• Run a financial report using a saved Excel template.
• Schedule when to run a financial report.
• Use a new Month to Date column type.
• Find financial reports that use a column or row definition.
• Use an accounting format where negative numbers are formatted with () instead of a minus sign.
• Open financial reporting when they create a new G/L account.

Administrators can:

• Use the documentation to find out which permissions are needed to run or edit financial reports.
• Get telemetry on the use of financial reports and lifecycle events.

My Opinion

On the surface many of these enhancements sound good, but with many end-users using Jet Reports or other reporting tools, I’m not sure how much use of them there will be?

This post is part of the New Functionality In Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central 2025 Wave 1 series in which I am taking a look at the new functionality introduced in Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central 2025 Wave 1.

The 2nd of the new functionality in the Reporting and data analysis section is access report and request metadata in Word layouts.

Similar to Excel layouts, you can now access report and request metadata in a Word layout without the need to encode this information in the report dataset. This enhancement makes report datasets easier to understand and removes tedious work for AL developers who create datasets for reports.

Enabled for: Users, automatically
Public Preview: –
General Availability: Apr 2025

Feature Details

There are now two types of metadata available in Word layouts:

• ReportMetadata: Provides information from the report object, such as the object ID and report name. This information is always available in the same format and location in the data picker area.
• ReportRequest: Contains information about the report request, such as company name, user name, and the date/time of the request.

This post is part of the New Functionality In Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central 2025 Wave 1 series in which I am taking a look at the new functionality introduced in Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central 2025 Wave 1.

The 1st of the new functionality in the Reporting and data analysis section is use enhanced analytics for manufacturing.

The improvements in reporting and analytics for the manufacturing area will help your business track new KPIs and scenarios in Power BI. Customizable Excel layouts for many reports allow you to tailor them to your needs, while enriched datasets provide more comprehensive analysis. The deprecation of legacy RDLC layouts and the addition of new reports ensure you’re using the most up-to-date tools. Comprehensive documentation and teaching tips can help you fully leverage these new features.

Enabled for: Users, automatically
Public Preview: –
General Availability: Apr 2025

Feature Details

In this release wave, Microsoft have significantly improved reporting and analytics for the manufacturing area.

For most things that you can analyze with existing reports, there are new tools for Power BI, data analysis, and Excel.

• You can track new KPIs and scenarios in the updated Power BI Manufacturing app.
• Many existing analytical reports now have an Excel layout that lets you change the report as needed. The datasets are enriched with fields that report extensions often add. The legacy RDLC layouts are deprecated.
• New reports with Excel layouts are available.
• Many existing list reports now have a Word and a simple Excel layout that lets you change a report as needed. The datasets are enriched with fields that report extensions often add. The legacy RDLC layouts are deprecated.
• Many of the existing analytical reports have been marked as deprecated. (Removal date set to 2027 release wave 1.) For each report, Microsoft have specified their replacements.
• All existing reports have teaching tips and are documented, including deprecation and replacement options.
• Microsoft also added a new Manufacturing analytics section in the documentation.

This post is part of the New Functionality In Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central 2025 Wave 1 series in which I am taking a look at the new functionality introduced in Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central 2025 Wave 1.

The 3rd of the new functionality in the Governance and administration section is update sandbox environments to preview versions.

This feature allows customers to update their sandbox environments to a preview version during the public preview, enabling them to test updates on their own data and installed extensions. This reduces risks, enhances testing accuracy, and ensures seamless integration of customizations, ultimately leading to better-informed decisions and smoother transitions.

Enabled for: Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically
Public Preview: –
General Availability: Sep 2025

Feature Details

For each major Dynamics 365 Business Central update, Microsoft organizes a public preview starting a month before the release of the update to enable customers and partners to test and prepare for the new functionality and other product changes using a sandbox environment. Until now, it wasn’t possible to update a sandbox environment to a preview version, which has made it difficult to test the next major version using your own data and extensions.

Starting with the public preview for 2025 release wave 2, it will be possible to update a sandbox environment to the preview version. This way, customers and partners can:

• Identify and address potential issues caused by environment data or installed extensions before the update is made available to their production environments.
• Test new functionality and the update operation itself using their own data, providing a more accurate representation of how the update will perform in their environments.
• Validate that installed apps and integrations will continue to work seamlessly with the new version earlier, allowing for more time to make any required changes before updating production environments.
• Prepare more effectively. Having a preview environment that closely resembles a production environment allows for earlier user readiness activities such as product training and change communication.

My Opinion

This one is going to be invaluable, giving partners and end-users the ability to do real testing as early as possible.