Finance

Supply Chain Management

Project operations

HR & Payroll

Commerce

Finance Transformation for the Modern Enterprise

Real-Time Cash Flow Intelligence
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Gain a clear view of liquidity across entities, projects, and business units. Predict cash flow patterns, identify potential risks early, and make confident financial decisions.

Predictive Accounts Receivable
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Improve receivable management with predictive insights that anticipate customer payment behavior and reduce cash flow uncertainty.

Intelligent Budgeting & Financial Planning
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Enable collaborative budgeting with connected financial data, ensuring that financial plans stay aligned with business objectives.

Accelerated Financial Close
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Reduce the complexity of financial consolidation and close cycles with automated reconciliations and standardized financial processes.

Embedded Financial Analytics
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Transform financial data into actionable insights with interactive dashboards, enabling leadership teams to make faster, data-driven decisions.

Automate Invoice Processing
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Speed up invoice capture and processing with AI-powered automation in Dynamics 365 Finance, reducing manual effort and operational costs.

Manage Credit Risk with Confidence
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Strengthen financial control with smarter credit monitoring and streamlined collections.

Unify Business Intelligence
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Bring financial and operational insights together to enable faster, data-driven decisions.

Scale Your Business with Confidence
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Accelerate expansion by rapidly launching new entities, subsidiaries, and product lines through standardized, best-practice business structures.

Optimize Subscription Billing
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Streamline recurring revenue management with scalable subscription billing models and automated financial controls.

Empower Workforce Productivity
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Enable teams with integrated tools and real-time insights that simplify operations and improve execution across functions.

Adapt to Regulatory Requirements
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Simplify compliance with structured financial frameworks that support tax calculations, electronic invoicing, regulatory reporting, and global payments.

Meet Global Compliance Standards
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Enable multi-country operations with built-in regulatory capabilities designed to support evolving global requirements.

Minimize Customization Complexity
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Leverage standardized ERP capabilities and best-practice configurations to reduce dependency on heavy system customization.

Enable Sustainable Operations
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Support sustainability initiatives through transparent reporting and integrated operational insights.

Strengthen Tax Compliance
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Ensure accurate and timely tax management with automated processes and standardized financial controls.

Building Intelligent and Resilient Supply Chains

Advance Demand Forecasting
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Leverage AI-driven insights, historical demand patterns, and external signals to improve forecast accuracy and support proactive supply planning.

Accelerate Supply Planning Cycles
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Enable faster planning and scenario modeling to respond quickly to demand fluctuations and operational disruptions.

Prevent Inventory Imbalances
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Optimize inventory buffers and replenishment strategies to minimize stockouts while reducing excess inventory costs.

Enable Cross-Functional Planning
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Facilitate real-time collaboration across supply chain, procurement, and sales teams to ensure aligned planning decisions.

Strengthen Strategic Sourcing
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Improve supplier selection and sourcing decisions with data-driven procurement strategies and transparent evaluation frameworks.

Enhance Supplier Collaboration
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Create stronger supplier partnerships through integrated communication, performance tracking, and shared operational visibility.

Optimize Procurement Processes
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Automate procurement workflows, approvals, and purchasing activities to reduce cycle times and improve efficiency.

Mitigate Supply Risks
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Identify potential supplier and supply chain risks early through continuous monitoring and analytics-driven insights.

Improve Production Planning
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Align production schedules with demand forecasts, material availability, and operational capacity for optimized output.

Enhance Shop Floor Visibility
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Gain real-time insights into production activities, equipment utilization, and operational performance.

Drive Operational Efficiency
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Streamline manufacturing processes with connected systems that improve throughput and reduce production bottlenecks.

Enable Continuous Quality Management
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Strengthen quality assurance with integrated monitoring, inspections, and traceability across production processes.

Optimize Order Lifecycle Management
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Manage orders seamlessly from capture to fulfillment with greater visibility across the entire order lifecycle.

Enhance Pricing Governance
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Standardize pricing strategies and discount policies to improve revenue control and margin management.

Improve Fulfillment Accuracy
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Coordinate inventory, logistics, and distribution processes to ensure reliable and timely order delivery.

Strengthen Customer Experience
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Deliver consistent service levels by providing accurate order visibility and proactive communication.

Optimize Warehouse Operations
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Improve storage, picking, and shipping efficiency with streamlined warehouse processes and automation capabilities.

Increase Fulfillment Throughput
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Enhance warehouse productivity through optimized workflows, intelligent task management, and operational visibility.

Enable Real-Time Inventory Control
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Maintain accurate inventory tracking across locations to support faster fulfillment and improved planning.

Enhance Distribution Agility
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Support scalable logistics operations that adapt to changing demand and complex distribution networks.

Dynamics 365 Project Operations

Customize costing and pricing
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Model robust pricing and costing variations on geography and local market economics that influence your global workforce and exchange rates.

Use tailored deal structures
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Create fixed-price, time and materials, or retainer-type contracts for your projects using adaptable billing models.

Shorten deal cycles
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Use standardized templates to quickly develop detailed estimates, schedules, and pricing for quotes.

Manage your pipeline
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Consolidate your customer data using the built-in interoperation with Dynamics 365 Sales to get actionable insights.

Visualize key insights
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Use built-in dashboards surfacing KPIs such as resource utilization, forecasting, and budgeting to quickly adapt to changing business conditions.

Democratize data
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Use Microsoft Power BI to easily visualize and share business intelligence with your project teams to help drive better customer outcomes.

Create forecasting snapshots
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Generate budget and time snapshots to forecast in resource and non-stocked deployments.

Draft time sheets quickly
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Speed time sheet creation with Time Entry Agent (preview)—auto-drafting entries to capture hours, track resources, and bill accurately.

Build expense reports fast
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Expense Agent (preview) turns receipts, emails, and trip details into draft reports—cutting effort and enforcing compliance.

Prioritize approvals
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Activity Approvals Agent (preview) flags only entries needing review—saving time, reducing backlogs, and enforcing policy.

Have the tools to succeed
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Improve productivity with Copilot in Dynamics 365 Project Operations. Use AI to generate status reports, identify risk assessments, and build project task plans.

Track projects to budget
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Develop accurate estimates for labor, expenses, and materials, and track budget-to-actual consumption as projects progress.

Collaborate across projects
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Bring your teams together around project plans, scope, and budget while capturing conversations, sharing content, and using apps.

Adjust projects using insights
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Use built-in insights to understand how your projects are trending and drive timely decisions for course correction.

Forecast trends for projects
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Create budget and time snapshots for forecasting in resource and non-stocked deployments to get a clear view of spending and progress targets.

Maximize your resources
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Easily distribute workloads across your resources to optimize project delivery.

Align people to the right projects
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Maintain resource profiles to easily match people’s skillsets with projects and rate skills using proficiency models.

Anticipate resourcing needs
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Streamline scheduling and get visibility into resource availability using universal resource scheduling.

Recognize revenue accurately
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Support your global teams’ adherence to accounting standards and practices, including International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS).

Improve cash flow
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Manage billing queues, subscriptions, and progressive billing. Add details and group transactions to customize invoices for easy reconciliation.

Accurately manage project accounting
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Set up project cost and revenue profiles for fixed-price or time and materials billing using accounting rules for cost and revenue, accruals, and postings.

Get a service-centric ERP system
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Interoperate with Dynamics 365 Finance or external ERP systems via open APIs to extend financial capabilities.

Dynamics 365 Human Resources

Increase productivity
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Allow employees to easily view time-off balances and submit leave requests in Microsoft Teams.

Centralize employee profiles
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Foster connections with rich employee profiles that include career accomplishments, skills, certifications, and interests.

Empower employees
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Get your people the information they need with easy access to employee profiles, training, performance tracking, goal setting, and time-off requests.

Improve manager success
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Complete routine and HR-related tasks faster with business process automation and team performance and feedback tracking.

Accelerate development
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Help employees grow with training and certification tracking.

Simplify leave and absence
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Easily create compliant and competitive programs that meet changing global regulations.

Create compensation plans
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Develop compensation programs based on defined guidelines and easily adjust to automate company-wide rollouts.

Redefine benefits packages
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Transform benefits administration with flexible, configurable, self-service enrollment tools that allow for life events.

Connect your payroll system
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Deliver payroll, budgets, and tax filings by integrating with payroll providers for comprehensive operating expenses tracking.

Improve recruitment
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Find candidates and manage recruiting by integrating with talent acquisition systems such as LinkedIn Talent Solutions.

Connect partner HR solutions
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Connect with other HR solutions, including payroll, talent management, recruiting, and LinkedIn.

Simplify HR administration
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Reduce complexity with tools that accurately reflect organizational hierarchies, personnel records, and job descriptions.

Automate workflows
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Improve productivity and efficiency with automated processes, workflows, and task management.

Do more with Power Platform
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Easily customize and extend Dynamics 365 Human Resources using Microsoft Power Platform.

Visualize your HR data
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Improve workforce planning with Power BI dashboards that help you centralize, analyze, and visualize your data.

Take advantage of analytics
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Make decisions confidently using embedded analytics that track and analyze HR programs.

Centralize your data
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Reduce complexity and centralize your data by integrating with existing systems and partner applications.

Capture employee insights
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Use survey insights from Dynamics 365 Customer Voice to capture employee sentiment and create a more collaborative environment.

Dynamics 365 Commerce

Personalize purchasing experiences
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Provide exceptional purchasing experiences by connecting in-store, digital, and back-office operations on a unified commerce platform.

Increase customer engagement
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Empower customers to decide when, how, and where they want to purchase—on any device, across all online and offline retail channels.

Provide choice and convenience
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Enable customers to buy online and pick up in-store or receive home delivery via connected ordering and fulfillment tools.

Create and manage sales promotions
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Centrally manage promotions and discounts across all retail channels using accurate, real-time omnichannel sales and cost data.

Expand partner engagement
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Use purpose-built functionality and capabilities needed by B2B organizations and users for self-service buying experiences.

Personalize customer experiences
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Enhance customer experiences across retail shopping channels, exceeding expectations with personalization and tailored product selections. Adventure Works surfboard listings with prices: Kiama Classic, Noosa, Sunnox, and Bondi Twin Surfboards.

Expand customer choice
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Deliver virtually endless purchasing options with access to your full product catalog, in store or online.

Get a 360˚ view of customers
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Build a single view of customer interactions and orders across physical and digital storefronts.

Empower employees
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Help employees foster customer relationships with upsell and cross sell recommendations, insights, loyalty programs, and intelligent actions.

Enhance sales capabilities
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Utilize native support for Dynamics 365 Customer Insights, Dynamics 365 Sales, and Dynamics 365 Customer Service to address all aspects of the buying journey.

Create intelligent storefronts
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Quickly launch websites using drag-and-drop content authoring and integrated content management with an easy-to-use visual page builder.

Better engage online shoppers
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Deliver personalized, appealing web experiences with content-driven commerce strategies.

Enrich the B2B buying experience
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Bring B2C e-commerce to your business partners and wholesale vendors with customer-specific catalogs and trade agreement pricing.

Simplify omnichannel management
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Get a single view of customers, products, promotions, inventory, and pricing across physical and digital channels.

Optimize digital channels
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Take advantage of targeting and personalization tools that can be integrated with Dynamics 365 Customer Insights.

Improve attach rate
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Use intelligent product lists to drive cross-sell and upsell recommendations so customers can easily discover relevant products.

Streamline payments
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Easily authorize and capture payments around the world using native integration with the Adyen payment gateway service.

Increase conversion with Copilot
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Enrich product content to engage and educate customers about your brand and products with Microsoft Copilot.

Help customers find products
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Provide intelligent, contextual product search powered by Azure AI Search to help customers search online and in store.

Improve accessibility
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Use Commerce authoring tools and Accessibility Insights to help customers of all abilities easily access page content.

Create seamless customer journeys
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Easily orchestrate personalized multichannel journeys by using Commerce with Dynamics 365 Customer Insights.

Maximize customer conversions
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Take advantage of brand centric e-commerce experiences and rich, engaging product pages to reduce customer-abandoned carts.

Rapidly respond to customer needs
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Create AI-powered chatbots that resolve common issues and answer questions 24 hours a day using Microsoft Copilot Studio.

Boost customer satisfaction
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Support customer inquiries and post-sales experiences with intuitive tools for call center and service center management.

Effectively target customers
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Use segmentation via rich customer data to group audiences and deliver more relevant campaigns and shopping experiences.

Deploy an API-first commerce engine
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Adapt to business needs and support traditional and emerging channels with an agile, API-driven headless commerce engine.

Customize solutions with ease
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Employ a configurable and extensible platform that expands to fit your needs.

Meet global business demands
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Scale with flexible deployment options on-premises, in the cloud, or at the edge.

Proactively safeguard data
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Take advantage of cohesive security management and comprehensive compliance coverage to run your business with confidence.