Dealing with various concerns related to the pandemic and the importance of maintaining food supply chains has caused many companies in these industries to focus on investing in automation technology and artificial intelligence. Many of these businesses were already investing in this technology, but COVID-19 has accelerated the process.
As the Coronavirus outbreak has spread, unprecedented challenges have arisen in distribution centers all over the world. Extraordinary measures have been taken to keep goods and services moving. Leaders in supply chain are building swift & agile response capabilities in order to mitigate the fallout from the crisis. Yet most organizations are still learning to cope with this new reality, and its post-pandemic impacts on warehouse operations. The need to quickly develop and adopt new capabilities that ensure long-term resiliency is now firmly on everyone’s minds.
This session will specifically address 3 fundamental shifts, their impacts on the DC, and how to build the capabilities required to maximize resiliency and long-term sustainability.
1.Consumer Consumption Changes
2.Re-Shoring Manufacturing
3.Robotics and Automation
Integrations with Business Central will also be highlighted in the Enabling Technologies portion of the presentation.
This session is focused on the best practices for data migration and upgrade from Dynamics AX 2012 to Dynamics 365 Finance & Supply Chain. With data migration and upgrade projects, the best practice methodology followed is to execute these upgrades in a prescribed manner to limit risk and costs. We’ll review leveraging the available tools as templates, DMF Data Management Framework and RSAT regression testing. Their usage depends on the client’s needs for the migration and upgrade.
Project leads, Technical leads, Architects, Developers, Database specialist will learn from a best practice and proven approach to executing a data migration and upgrade in three phases; Analyze, Execute and Validate. This includes analyzing the data and code upgrade, setting up Azure LCS, performing the upgrade to plan and validation of the upgrade before cut over to production.
This session will be available for CPE credits pending completion of session survey post event.
Now you can have your cake and eat it too. By leveraging dual-write functionality within CDS, We can now leverage the maintenance plan portion of F&O combined with Field Service to manage the entire work order lifecycle all without having to implement the entire Finance and Supply Chain Management solution. By doing this, customers are now able to use the robust maintenance plan functionality that’s in Dynamics 365 Supply Chain, combined with the world-class capabilities of Dynamics 365 Field Service. By combining dual-write, Field Service, and the Asset Management module, we can provide a stronger, more comprehensive asset management solution within CDS. So Dynamics users can now get a solution that can perform very complex maintenance scenarios, but also be more agile and easily configured. It’s a bit like having your cake and eating it too.
Learn Amazon terminology, get an overview of the various Amazon portals, and learn about integration possibilities with NAV/BC that will automate and streamline your sales, fee payments, and reporting on Amazon mfg/supply chain/admin/integrations.
This session will be available for CPE credits pending completion of session survey post event.
Level: Basic
There’s nothing more powerful than the efficiency of paperless automation combined with Microsoft Dynamics 365 in the cloud. During this session, our automation experts will show you firsthand how together MetaViewer and Business Central increase financial control and end-to-end visibility of the supply chain for streamlined and strategic business decision-making.
Companies running multiple instances will benefit from automation of Intercompany Orders. AX2012 R3 allows for Direct Delivery functionality in the same instance. However, our company runs 8 instances of AX 2012 R3 and needed a solution to automate intercompany transactions. By developing a process that mimics direct delivery, from instance to instance, the manual processes involved with ordering and distribution created seamless electronic trading between buyer and supplier. Orders can be entered in one instance and fulfilled from another instance, directly to the original customer. Also allowing real-time communication, supply chain information and inventory order processing.
The content of this session is geared toward an audience with intermediate-level knowledge of the subject area.
This session will be available for CPE credits pending completion of session survey post event.
This presentation will take the audience through how to use a combination of Azure machine learning, Power Apps and key D365 for Finance and Supply Chain features to mange and improve food safety. We will cover both how to manage quality control on the production floor or at the receiving dock using Power Apps, predicting quality issues using Azure ML, and how to log and manage non-conformance via D365FSC, Power BI and Power Apps.
The content of this session is geared toward an audience with intermediate to advanced-level knowledge of the subject area.
This session will be available for CPE credits pending completion of session survey post event.
Get hands-on experience creating dashboards for measuring Supply Chain KPIs. Choose from 3 exercises using BC and Power BI to Create: 1) Dashboard with Vendor KPIs for on-time delivery, lead times, and number of back orders; 2) Inventory dashboard with inventory KPIs for evaluating ABC class for new items, fast moving items and bin location, number of times counted, and adjustments; or a 3) Warehouse operations dashboard with KPIs such as number of picks and putaways by user, number of cycle counts by user, number of on-time and late shipments.
Accompanies the How2 session of the same name.
Level: Intermediate
System performance is one of the most impactful elements of any ERP system – so why are you not prioritizing it? Join us to remove some question marks about how to actually execute the performance testing that you’ve been avoiding within Dynamics 365 for Finance and Supply Chain.
The content of this session is geared toward an audience with beginner to intermediate-level knowledge of the subject area.
This session will be available for CPE credits pending completion of session survey post event.
System performance is one of the most impactful elements of any ERP system – so why are you not prioritizing it? Join us to remove some question marks about how to actually execute the performance testing that you’ve been avoiding within Dynamics 365 for Finance and Supply Chain.The content of this session is geared toward an audience with beginner to intermediate-level knowledge of the subject area.
EDI is mission critical for many companies moving to D365 Finance & Supply Chain Management. And the smart companies are seeing why their EDI choice can help their implementations succeed.
During this session you will learn:
1.How to minimize impact on your trading partners while you go through an ERP change.
2.How to avoid D365 software customization for EDI and stay up to date with regular Microsoft D365 updates.
3.How to leverage your EDI solution to validate the data migration.
4.See a working integrated EDI solution in action.
We will end the session with a Q&A with our VP’s of Operations & Technology.
There is growing interest by Dynamics GP customers in Business Central. This session is a side by side review of the differences, strengths and weaknesses of Business Central manufacturing and supply chain compared with the out of the box Dynamics GP manufacturing functionality. The session will flip back and forth between Dynamics GP features and Business Central matching features. Features in Dynamics GP that are not implemented in Business Central will be discussed, including solutions that the presenter(s) have seen in the field.
Best Practices for a migration from a GP manufacturing implementation to Business Central will be discussed.
This session will be available for CPE credits pending completion of session survey post event.
Level: Intermediate
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