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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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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

Build loads and plan shipments

As part of the transportation process, companies should consolidate shipments to build loads and deliver them to their customers. Consolidating shipments will help companies lower costs as they reduce the number of shipments. As we reviewed earlier, planning the loads is the first step of the transportation process.

As an important concept, a load is a group of goods transported together. It may be from different orders or shipments, so companies must optimize their loads into the right containers to save time and money.

To do so, Dynamics 365 Supply Chain Management has load templates.

Load templates

We can assign load templates to new loads to give that load information about equipment and measures such as height, width, depth, and volume. We can create templates to define the capacity of a container that carries goods. For example, if we are shipping frozen food, we can use a load template for that shipment with a refrigerated container...

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