Microsoft Dynamics 365 for Manufacturing 

Optimize Warehouse Operations With Dynamics 365 Warehouse Management

Speed and service are crucial to success in the distribution industry. Maximizing cash flows and profitability starts with finding the right ERP solution.

Dynamics 365 Warehouse Management incorporates artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) to optimize warehouse functions. Help your team by providing them with a smart distribution platform that speeds up fulfillment and offers real-time control over essential workflows. 

Fulfill Sales Orders Fast

Dynamics 365 Warehouse automatically generates sales order documents. It also validates and updates the status of goods as they get picked, packed, and shipped. The platform syncs orders with inventory and financial systems. Workers receive real-time updates on availability, which reduces back-orders and delays.

Help your team fulfill SLAs by using Dynamics 365 Warehouse’s barcode scanning and mobile workflows. This will make your warehouse run faster while ensuring accuracy at every step and helping you exceed customer expectations.

Simplify the Return Process

Use Microsoft Dynamics Manufacturing automation to generate return order documentation to avoid bottlenecks in your return processes. Businesses can also support workflows for return merchandise authorization, restocking, inspections, and disposal.

The platform provides staff with rules-based logic guides to help them follow proper procedures when handling returns. It covers functions like issuing credit, returning items to a vendor, or placing an item back in available inventory. Dynamics 365 Warehouse helps you maintain compliance and traceability while avoiding revenue leakage through mismanagement.

Coordinate Inter-Warehouse Movement

Microsoft Dynamics 365 for Manufacturing facilitates order transfers between different warehouses, zones, or distribution centers. Using the platform’s automated approval flows and inventory adjustment functions, you can create and track the documentation needed for transfers.

Team members have complete visibility into efforts to restock inventory at a satellite location or ensure stock levels stay balanced in every center. Dynamics 365 Warehouse taps into financial and planning modules to provide information on the status of goods in transit and shipping statuses.

Maximize Warehouse Setup and Organization

Optimize the space in your warehouses, distribution centers, and satellite locations using Microsoft Dynamics 365 Warehouse Management. You can design and manage warehouse structures digitally. That includes making sure aisles are wide enough to accommodate equipment or ensuring you have racks and bins sized correctly.

Smart Zone Set-Up

Create zones designed for maximum worker efficiency when it comes to movement. Keep workers comfortable by accounting for temperature controls based on the current weather. Users can also perform functions like:

• Creating location profiles
• Implementing picking strategies to match operational goals
• Assigning storage capacities

Location Management

You can create zones, locations, and bins that fit your company’s warehouse needs, including:

• Staging
• Bulk Storage
• Receiving
• Fast-Pick Areas
• Quarantine Zones

Dynamics 365 Manufacturing management provides built-in location directives and work templates that guide workers through inbound and outbound tasks. That’s made possible by using AI to examine tasks based on product type, turnover rate, or handling unit. The platform also makes it possible to:

• Route goods to optimal bin locations automatically
• Use logical zone-to-zone movement to reduce worker travel time
• Enforce FIFO (first in, first out) and LIFO (last in, first out)

Slotting Optimization Tools

Use Dynamics 365 Warehouse optimization tools to determine the best storage location for your goods. The platform does this by analyzing data such as usage frequency, product dimensions, and demand trends. You can make stock more accessible when dealing with high-turnover items. This also avoids having less-used SKUs take up premium floor space.

In addition, Microsoft Dynamics Manufacturing provides real-time data to help warehouse managers continue refining floor layouts. This helps organizations stay flexible based on consumer demands while avoiding guesswork.

Expand Distribution Channels

Distributors must explore new ways to expand existing distribution channels to keep growing and meet the rising expectations of customers, suppliers, and partners. Dynamics 365 Manufacturing facilitates different techniques for increasing an organization’s reach. 

Global Sourcing

Provide your teams with control and visibility into global supply chains. You can manage sourcing products from international vendors and track overseas shipments in ways that align inbound goods with domestic distribution strategies.

MS Dynamics Manufacturing supports these efforts with features like:

• Multi-language and currency functions
• Regulatory Compliance
• Country-Specific Tax Management
• International Supplier Purchase Order Management
• Container Tracking
• Vendor Performance Insights

3PL Integration

If you’re outsourcing to third-party logistics providers, you can integrate Dynamics 365 Warehouse with external 3PL logistics systems. This lets you perform functions like:

• Facilitating real-time data exchanges
• Sharing current inventory views
• Coordinating tasks

Your teams can quickly start coordinating with third-party warehouse and transportation providers. Dynamics 365 Warehouse automates advanced shipping notice generation to speed up product movement.

The platform gives companies complete control over what’s happening in every channel while leaving the execution to their partners. This is especially important to organizations using multi-region distribution strategies.

Cross-Selling

As your distribution network expands, your cross-sell and up-sell strategies become more critical. Use Dynamics 365 Warehouse to link product families. The platform can also recommend complementary items and tell you how to make warehouses more efficient when it comes to slotting, leading to faster bundling and fulfillment.

For example, you can group SKUs into different kits and combos for promotional purposes. Other ways you can facilitate cross-selling with Dynamics 365 Warehouse include:

• Using sales data to provide dynamic product recommendations
• Set up triggers for picking and packing when it comes to related items
• Syncing available products across brick-and-mortar, online, and wholesale channels

RFID

Many warehouses have turned to Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) technology to track goods at every stage from receiving to shipping. You can use RFID to scan multiple items, even if they aren’t in a worker’s direct line of sight. Businesses can use Dynamics 365 Warehouse to automate receiving, put-away, and cycle counting tasks to reduce picking and packing errors.