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In standard outbound warehouse execution, moving goods from the picking face directly to outbound staging works well for bulk pallet moves. However, e-commerce and retail fulfillment typically require goods to be brought to a packing bench, inspected, sorted into shipping boxes (containers), and subsequently moved to staging or baydoors. In Dynamics 365 Supply Chain Management (D365 SCM), this flow hinges on two tightly coupled concepts: Container Packing Policies and Packing Work Creation (Container Conversion) . For consultants who cut their teeth on legacy AX 2012 WAX or manual packing stations, the interplay between packing profiles, container closing policies, and automated follow-on work creation can seem confusing. In this post, we unpack how to set up container conversion and container packing policies to streamline your outbound packing flow. Coming from AX 2012? In Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 R3 (when WMS/WAX was first integrated), the manual packing station allowed workers t...

Accelerating Data Retention in Dynamics 365 Finance and Operations Managing database growth is one of the most critical responsibilities for a Dynamics 365 Finance and Operations (D365 F&O) administrator. Years of heavy transaction processing across General Ledger, Sales Orders, and Inventory transactions lead to ballooning database sizes, degraded reporting speed, and slower indexing maintenance windows. For years, archive routines ran as monolithic, single-threaded batch tasks. When attempting to archive millions of historical records, these jobs frequently hit batch execution timeouts, triggered SQL lock escalations, or spilled into daytime business hours. With the introduction of parallel processing capabilities for archive jobs, administrators and technical architects can now divide large archive workloads across multiple batch threads simultaneously, cutting down runtime from dozens of hours to a fraction of that time. Coming from AX 2012? In Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012, data ...

Ax 2012  Monthly Inventory Close in Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 If you've ever asked yourself this question you are not alone.  Although Dynamics AX offers some great tools in helping you close out inventory every month many people do not even know they are there. Inventory closing is necessary for your business to calculate the correct costs prices of inventory, so it is critical to make sure we run inventory close correctly to ensure accurate results.  In this post we are going to go through the steps associated with completing a successful inventory close.   Steps to perform a monthly inventory close: 1.        Navigate to Inventory and Warehouse management > Periodic > Closing and Adjustment 2.        In upper right hand corner click on ‘Close Procedure’ button.  And perform steps 3-5. 3.        Click ‘1. Check open quantities’: · ...