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What is Microsoft Dynamics 365 Finance & Operations (F&O)?

Microsoft Dynamics 365 Finance & Operations (D365 F&O) is a robust ERP solution evolved from Microsoft Dynamics AX, designed for large enterprises. It integrates financial and business processes across key areas such as finance, production, inventory management, logistics, procurement, and sales. This flexible platform delivers agility and scalability, empowering organizations to optimize operations and drive sustainable growth.

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Cash Flow Forecast
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Automate invoice workflows
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Reinvent invoice data entry
Eliminate Stockouts
Optimize inventory with dynamic stock buffers and DDMRP, leveraging Copilot to refine order picking through automated inventory positioning.
Flexible and rapid supply planning
Ensure faster replenishment cycles and shorter lead times with full MRP runs completed in minutes, enabling planners to respond to demand changes in near real time.
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Use insights such as available inventory and future availability to determine order picking locations for sustainable deliveries.

Dynamics 365 Finance and Operations : powerful features

Financial Management

 

Adaptive Financial Models

Customize your financial strategies to match changing business demands – preparing your organization to succeed even when faced with disruptions and uncertainties. Boost business vitality and agility with finance tools like advanced reporting, embedded analytics, and AI-powered insights, enabling better decision-making and growth acceleration.

 

Budgeting and Forecasting

Effectively plan and track budget, forecast budget, allocate resources, and make data-driven financial decisions. Monitor financial performance throughout the fiscal year and gain real-time visibility into planned vs. actual spending

 
 
 

Effortless Process Automation

Seamlessly integrate finance software into your core operations, automating tasks and boosting productivity while aligning with dynamic business models for optimal financial performance. Reduce errors and ensure consistency in your financial processes with the predefined workflow and rules that automate and streamline various business tasks and activities.

 

Multi-Currency and Multi-Language Support

Navigate the complex global landscape by minimizing costs and optimizing expenditures across your business operations. Leverage process automation, budget control, and intelligent financial planning to achieve maximum impact.

 

Risk Mitigation Masterstroke

Simplify your compliance journey with the guided, rules-based chart of accounts and a no-code configuration service, ensuring streamlined regulatory reporting, electronic invoicing, and global payment processes. Enjoy the reporting tools and templates for financial statements, tax reporting, and other compliance needs.

 

Proactive Financial Excellence

Maintain accurate financial records, automate routine financial tasks, and improve financial visibility. Shift your financial operations from transactions to proactive endeavors that amplify decision-making, safeguard revenue, mitigate risks, and trim costs.

Supply Chain Management

 

Inventory Management

Efficiently oversee material requirements, strategize resource allocation, respond quickly to dynamic demand shifts, and expedite delivery timelines. Improve forecasting using Machine Learning capabilities, mitigate stockout vulnerabilities through demand-driven material requirements planning (DDMRP), and enhance inventory management through AI-driven demand prediction, facilitating agile stock control.

 

Procurement and Sourcing

Optimize procurement operations by streamlining processes, precision in purchase planning, swift supplier onboarding, and seamless collaborative workflows. Implement automated pricing strategies in alignment with established business purchase policies. Effortlessly oversee procurement tasks, including purchase order management, quotation bidding, and invoicing.

 

Order Management

Guarantee precision in providing customers with accurate stock data during order entry. Deliver pricing consistency by enabling real-time pricing computations across diverse channels and instigate pricing scenarios contingent on customer, product, and channel attributes (preview functionality). Streamline sales order management through a centralized workspace and attain immediate insights into pending orders for enhanced operational efficiency.

 

Manufacturing and Shopfloor Management

Proficiently oversee shop floor operations by leveraging a real-time view of production and inventory. Establish agile, sustainable, and flexible manufacturing practices by harnessing IoT and mixed reality technologies. Seamlessly integrate data from external manufacturing execution systems (MES) to obliterate data silos, elevate quality, and optimize production workflows through comprehensive MES integration.

 

Warehouse Management

Facilitate the establishment of new warehouses management through guided implementation and standardized configurations, ensuring uniformity across the warehouse network. Automate warehouse functions, fostering enhanced accessibility and collaborative workflows via a centralized system. Reduce manual labor by streamlining shipment sorting from anywhere. Attain actionable, real-time insights into warehouse operations, encompassing stock visibility, carrier data, and material handling processes.

 

Co-pilot in Supply Chain Center

The news model will help you flag external issues like finance, weather, and geographical issues to your inventory, warehouse, and logistics teams. Efficiently resolve issues in real-time with Azure Open AI contextual email outreach. This email will alert the concerned team for various subjects like changing weather conditions, new ETAs, re-routing purchase orders, and reprioritizing deliveries of customer orders. This feature ensures a timely delivery and helps meet the market demand.

Microsoft Dynamics 365 Human Resources

 

Employee Self-Service

  • View leave balances and submit requests directly through Microsoft Teams.
  • Update personal information easily.
  • Access training programs, goals, and performance evaluations.
 

Personnel Management

  • Enriched profiles including skills, certifications, and interests.
  • Accurate organizational hierarchies.
  • Global address book for easy access to employee information.
 

Leave and Absence Management

  • Configuration of leave policies.
  • Automated approval workflows.
  • Complete absence history tracking.
 

Benefits & Compensation

  • Flexible benefits programs with self-enrollment options.
  • Management of pay grids and bulk adjustments.
  • Integration with payroll, budgeting, and tax declarations.
 

Training & Development

  • Tracking of certifications and training programs.
  • Integration with LinkedIn Learning and Dynamics 365 Guides.
  • Career planning and performance evaluations.
 

Recruitment & Talent Acquisition

  • Integration with LinkedIn Talent Solutions.
  • Management of applications and talent pools.
  • Recruitment Model-Driven App powered by Microsoft Power Platform.
 

Reporting & Analytics

  • Interactive dashboards powered by Power BI Embedded.
  • Predictive HR analytics (turnover, employee sentiment).
  • HR KPIs such as time-to-hire and employee satisfaction.

Microsoft Dynamics 365 Human Resources - Add-on Aiventu

We have developed an add-on module for Dynamics 365 HR to address specific needs related to local laws and regulations.
 

Customized Payroll Management

  • Automatic calculation of salaries based on tax and social regulations specific to each country.
  • Integration with local banking systems for secure payment processing.
 

Legal Compliance

  • Adaptation to national regulations (taxes, social contributions, collective agreements).
  • Automatic updates in case of legislative changes.
 

Loan Management

  • Tracking and calculation of employee loans according to internal policies and local legislation.
  • Integration with payroll for automatic deductions or reimbursements.
 

Health Insurance Management

  • Comprehensive management of health insurance records.
  • Monitoring of benefits and insured rights.
 

Declarations and Reporting

  • Automated tax and social declarations.
  • Custom reports for audits and compliance.
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Why Microsoft Dynamics 365 Finance and Operations?

Redefine your operations with Microsoft Dynamics 365 — from building a resilient, sustainable supply chain with SCM to maximizing financial visibility and profitability through Finance & Operations, all powered by advanced tools and actionable insights.
Keep pace with evolving business needs

Stay aligned with the ever-changing landscape of business demands by envisioning and reconstructing your financial models, ensuring readiness, adaptability, and resilience.

Enhance financial decision making

Elevate your business’s health and foster agility and growth by utilizing finance tools. Leverage them for comprehensive reporting, integrated analytics, and AI-driven insights.

Automate business processes

Seamlessly integrate finance software into your core operations. Automate tasks to enhance productivity, accommodate evolving business models, and optimize financial performance.

Create impact and reduce costs

Strategically minimize expenses and fine-tune spending across global business operations. Achieve this through process automation, stringent budget control, and sophisticated financial planning.

Mitigate Supply Chain Issues

With Microsoft Dynamics 365 Supply Chain Management, you can create an intelligent supply chain that reacts to challenges in real-time and offers advanced insights to bid farewell to disruptive supply chain issues.

Intelligent Inventory Management

Utilize the power of AI to forecast demand and make stock decisions in near-real time, implementing priority-based supply planning. This optimization eliminates stockouts and overstocking, ensuring optimized inventory.

Streamlined Manufacturing Processes

Leverage IoT and mixed reality to establish agile manufacturing processes seamlessly integrated with your existing manufacturing execution systems (MES). Effortlessly streamline and enhance your production capabilities.

Effective Procurement Management

Dynamics 365 Supply Chain Management streamlines procurement processes, enhances cost management, and fosters collaboration with suppliers, elevating the efficiency of your procurement operations.

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Learn How D365 F&O Transforms Finance and Operations

 

  • Real-time financial insights
  • Automated workflows for operations and supply chain
  • Global compliance and tax management
  • Integration with Microsoft 365 and Power Platform

Aiventu’s Value: We help you unlock these benefits through tailored deployment and training.

The Aiventu HR Add-on is an extension developed by Aiventu for Microsoft Dynamics 365 HR. It addresses local legal and regulatory requirements by automating payroll, compliance, and employee benefits management. The solution ensures accurate salary calculations, legal alignment, and seamless integration with payroll and financial processes.

Dynamics 365 Finance & Operations (F&O) is designed for large enterprises needing advanced financial, supply chain, and manufacturing capabilities with global scalability. Dynamics 365 Business Central (BC) targets small to mid-sized businesses, offering streamlined finance and operations in a more affordable, user-friendly package. The key difference lies in complexity and scale—F&O for enterprise-level needs, BC for simplicity and growth.

You can get started by requesting a free consultation with one of Aiventu’s Microsoft Dynamics 365 experts. During this session, our team will analyze your needs, walk you through the key features, and help you identify the best solution for your business. It’s the simplest way to understand how Dynamics 365 can support your growth and operational efficiency.

Absolutely. It integrates seamlessly with Microsoft tools (Office 365, Teams, Power BI, Azure) and third-party applications.

Implementation timelines vary depending on scope and complexity, typically ranging from a few weeks to several months.

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