Microsoft - Microsoft Dynamics 365 Supply Chain Management Functional Consultant Expert

Curriculum

Module 1: Functional groups Configure products (15–20%)

Implement product information for production

• Configure planning items, co-products, and by-products for batch orders
• Configure catch weight handling policies
• Configure inventory batches, batch attributes, and lot inheritance
• Manage product compliance including regulated and restricted items
• Define configuration groups and routes for dimension-based products
• Manage products with dimension-based, constraint-based, and pre-defined variants
• Configure bills of materials (BOMs), formulas, and routes to manage scrap

Implement Product Configurator for Dynamics 365

• Create and manage product configuration model components and subcomponents
• Create calculations for product configuration models
• Differentiate between table and expression constraints
• Configure BOM lines and route operations for a product configuration model
• Configure and manage pricing for configuration models
• Describe the purpose and capabilities of the product configurator
• Validate, approve, and test product configuration models

Implement Engineering Change Management

• Design an engineering product lifecycle
• Configure engineering categories
• Configure product readiness policies and product release policies
• Create an engineering product with engineering attributes
• Review and accept released products to a local company
• Add engineering products to a sales order, purchase orders and production orders
• Schedule and implement engineering change requests and change orders

Module 2: Configure production prerequisites (20-25%)

Configure resources, routes, and calendars

• Implement and manage work calendars and working time
• Create and configure resource capabilities
• Implement and manage resources and resource groups
• Create and manage operations and routes Configure production settings and processes
• Create production units, production groups, production pools, and production journal names
• Describe integration between general ledger and production control modules
• Manage reservations in production process, including partial reservations and re-reservations
• Configure warehouse processes for raw materials picking and finished goods put away
• Describe unified (mixed mode) manufacturing
• Configure production control parameters
• Describe production and batch order process statuses

Implement costing

• Configure costing sheets and indirect costs
• Configure and manage cost groups, costing versions, and cost categories
• Configure cost allocations for co-products and burden allocation for by-products
• Configure and perform BOM/formula calculations
• Activate item prices
• Describe production posting profiles
• Describe common sources of production variances
• View and analyse production and inventory costs

Module 3: Implement production methods (15–20%)

Implement discrete manufacturing

• Create BOM and item configurations
• Create and process production orders
• Create and process picking list journals
• Create and process job card and route card journals
• Create and process reports as finished journals
• Reset the status of a production order
• Describe use cases and configure production-related reservations

Implement process manufacturing

• Configure batch reservations and release to warehouse process
• Configure consolidated batch order processes
• Manage batch balancing and batch order sequencing
• Configure formulas features
• Create and process report as finished journals with co-products and by-products
• Create and process batch orders and a rework batch order
• Create formulas and formula versions

Implement lean manufacturing

• Create value streams and production flows
• Configure production flow costing
• Create kanban rules
• Process kanban orders by using kanban boards
• Create and manage fixed, scheduled, and event kanbans

Module 4: Configure production control (20–25%)

Implement subcontracting

• Describe use cases for subcontracting processes
• Implement activity-based subcontracting
• Configure BOM and formula lines, resources, and routes for subcontracting items
• Create service items for subcontracting
• Create and process subcontracting purchase orders

Implement manufacturing execution

• Configure time and attendance prerequisites and activate workers for time registration
• Identify the capabilities of manufacturing execution
• Process production and batch orders by using manufacturing execution processes
• Configure production floor execution interface and job card terminals
• Calculate and approve time registrations

Implement advanced master planning scenarios

• Process and view planned orders
• Configure intercompany master planning
• Configure forecast models and parameters
• Run demand forecasting and adjust as appropriate
• Execute explosion and validate results
• Describe how supply chain calendars affect master planning

Implement production scheduling and capacity planning

• Define scheduling parameters
• View, monitor, and update production schedules
• Configure capacity for production resources including machines, labour, and tooling
• Describe infinite and finite scheduling and capacity
• Describe differences between operations and job scheduling

Module 5: Describe and implement additional supply chain management features (10–15%)

Describe cloud and edge scale units

• Describe the value proposition for scale units for warehouse workloads
• Describe warehouse management processes that can run on a scale unit
• Describe manufacturing processes that can run on a scale unit

Describe use cases for integrating mixed reality technologies with Dynamics 365 Supply Chain Management

• Describe use cases for Dynamics 365 Guides
• Describe the process for integrating mixed reality Dynamics 365 Guides with manufacturing processes
• Describe the process for integrating mixed reality Dynamics 365 Guides with asset management

Implement Asset Management

• Configure maintenance plans
• Configure functional locations
• Manage maintenance requests
• Manage work orders consumption
• Manage work order scheduling