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Becoming a Dynamics 365 Supply Chain Management Functional Consultant Associate

You're reading from   Becoming a Dynamics 365 Supply Chain Management Functional Consultant Associate Optimize and streamline supply chain management processes to improve outcomes and reduce costs

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Product type Paperback
Published in Nov 2023
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781804618004
Length 422 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Mariano Martínez Melo Mariano Martínez Melo
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Juan Bravo Vargas Juan Bravo Vargas
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Preface 1. Chapter 1: Getting Started with Dynamics 365 Supply Chain Management 2. Chapter 2: Working with Product Information Management FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 3: Getting Started with the Inventory Management Module 4. Chapter 4: Procurement and Sourcing, the Start of the Journey 5. Chapter 5: Working with Quality Control Processes – a Hands-On Approach 6. Chapter 6: Setting up and Managing Sales and Customers 7. Chapter 7: Warehouse Management Implementation – Best Practices and Strategies - Part 1 8. Chapter 8: Warehouse Management Implementation – Best Practices and Strategies - Part 2 9. Chapter 9: Transportation Management – From Planning to Execution 10. Chapter 10: Master Planning Implementation – A Guide to Streamlining Operations 11. Chapter 11: Master Planning Implementation – Advanced Scenarios 12. Index 13. Other Books You May Enjoy

Setting up our warehouse and inventory configurations

It’s time to set up our warehouse. But first, let’s break down the inventory structure. If we were to go to any warehouse, we would see that boxes and materials are stored in large and tall racks, and every location is named. This division and segmentation of the warehouse is called inventory breakdown. In Dynamics 365 SCM provides the ability to organize inventory based on site, warehouse, and location; let’s review how to set them up in Dynamics.

Sites

Sites are storage locations and can be linked to a financial dimension in the general ledger. This means that a site is the main way of organizing inventory costs. SCM in Dynamics 365 creates at least one site, and all inventory transactions refer to a site.

However, depending on the company’s logistics or business process, creating more than one site may be better. There are several cases where having two or more sites would be ideal. For example...

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