Tag: Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central 2023 Wave 2

This post is part of the New Functionality In Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central 2023 Wave 2 series in which I am taking a look at the new functionality introduced in Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central 2023 Wave 2.

The second of the new functionality in the Application section is configure the right level of handling for different warehouse operations.

Warehouse processes such as picking and replenishment are no longer one-size-fits-all. You can configure your warehouse processes differently to suit your inbound, outbound, and internal workflows.

Enabled for: Users by admins, makers, or analysts
Public Preview: Sep 2023
General Availability: Oct 2023

Feature Details

Business Central provides a wealth of capabilities for managing a warehouse, and allows businesses to configure inbound (purchase), outbound (sales), and internal (production) warehouse workflows individually. For example, you can use warehouse shipments to send items to customers, but use inventory movements to replenish bins for production or assembly orders.

My Opinion

This sounds like it will be useful to clients using stock and want to have some more flexibility over how inbound, outbound and internal stock movement works.

This post is part of the New Functionality In Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central 2023 Wave 2 series in which I am taking a look at the new functionality introduced in Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central 2023 Wave 2.

The first of the new functionality in the Application section is availability overview helps you calculate quantities in your warehouse.

Increase warehouse handling efficiency by having accurate and real-time information about inventory levels, locations in your warehouse, processing stage, and other factors that affect available quantities—for example, quarantine or reservations.

Enabled for: Users by admins, makers, or analysts
Public Preview: Sep 2023
General Availability: Oct 2023

Feature Details

From source documents such as sales orders, production orders, assembly orders, or jobs, you can access information about the availability of items in your warehouse. The information is real-time, and respects factors that affect availability, such as dedicated bins, locked bins, and items that aren’t available for picking. For example, items might be reserved, or pending put-away or shipment operations. A picking log lets you review the items that Business Central didn’t include in pick documents and take the necessary actions.

My Opinion

I am still fairly new to Business Central, but accessing information from transactions seems much harder than I would expect, so improving visibility in the warehouse over availability seems like a very good addition. I’ve been doing some work in inventory and warehousing recently, so it will be good to see how this new functionality works.

This post is part of the New Functionality In Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central 2023 Wave 2 series in which I am taking a look at the new functionality introduced in Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central 2023 Wave 2.

The fourth of the new functionality in the Adapt faster with Power Platform section is get control over how to view Power BI embedded content.

With the rising importance of data analysis, it’s key to have the flexibility and modern content visualization of Power BI directly from inside Business Central. Prior to this release, the Power BI part on role centers was limited, with a fixed size that only displayed the first page of a multipage Power BI report.

Enabled for: Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically
Public Preview: Sep 2023
General Availability: Oct 2023

Feature Details

In this release, we add more capabilities to the Power BI embedded experience in Business Central. While details are still being finalized, here are some capabilities that you can expect:

• Control over pages in reports.
• Stretch the view to full page.
• Control zoom level of reports more easily.
• Show scorecards.

On top of these capabilities, we’ve also updated the delivery mechanism for demonstration reports and given the reports a visual refresh.

My Opinion

Power BI is another of those areas, like Power Automate, which is handled by another team, but this sounds like a good idea in giving more control over how embedded content in Power BI can be viewed.

This post is part of the New Functionality In Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central 2023 Wave 2 series in which I am taking a look at the new functionality introduced in Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central 2023 Wave 2.

The third of the new functionality in the Adapt faster with Power Platform section is enable specific virtual tables when you connect to Dataverse.

Avoiding duplicate data entry is a key value proposition for integrating Business Central with Dataverse. Enabling virtual tables makes more data available between Business Central and Dataverse, which enriches integrations without additional customizations.

Enabled for: Users by admins, makers, or analysts
Public Preview: Sep 2023
General Availability: Oct 2023

Feature Details

When you use the Set up Dataverse Connection assisted setup guide or the Dataverse Connection Setup page in Business Central to set up a connection to Dataverse, you can enable specific virtual tables. When enabled, the virtual tables are available when you use Business Central.

This post is part of a series on the new functionality available Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central 2023 Wave 2. In this series of articles, I am going to take a look at what is new with Business Central in this release wave. My understanding is the announced new functionality will become available between October and March so not all of it will be available immediately, and is subject to change so some may not be avaiable as part of this wave, but pushed back to a subsequent one. When posting about some new functionality, I’ll try to indicate where it is expected that it will be available.

I will also try to include some commentary on the new functionality being introduced.

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