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Commodity contract management for growers, packers and shippers extends Dynamics 365 finance and supply chain management to effectively manage contractual relationships with vendors. CCM for the grower industry eases the management of contracts, adjustments, product receptions and vendor AP settlement processes. The accelerator accommodates AP transactions and inventory updates to avoid redundant data entry tasks. Some of the main features include advance payment management, material issuance and finished goods recovery, third-party vendor payment, and grower discounts.

Commodity contract management for the dairy industry facilitates documents and manages contractual relationships with processors. From contract creation to automatic AP invoice generation, and from quality-controlled product reception to inventory update and tank management, this accelerator leverages base infrastructure such as product formulas and batch attributes to calculate producer payments based on component potencies. Adjustment and advance management are added to support financial processes related to price-changing strategies and payment advance and deductions.

Advance load building is a platform that integrates inbound and outbound shipments from a diverse set of documents into a managing platform able to route and direct loads in a dynamic fashion. Documents such as purchase orders, sales orders, production orders and transfer orders can be added and removed as needed. Actions such as pickups and drop-offs are created on the fly and results automatically update the original documents as well as inventory status and locations.

CLEARthru is the first enterprise resource planning (ERP)-based blockchain traceability solution that brings best-in-class supply chain integrity, safety and product source tracking information to consumers. By leveraging blockchain technology, CLEARthru provides access to information across the value chain in seconds.

Advanced trade promotions management enhances the existing capabilities of Dynamics 365 finance and supply chain management in several areas. Indirect bill backs extend bill backs to address distributor, wholesaler and retailer relationships. Enhanced demand forecasts allow bidirectional communication with the existing item forecast framework to accommodate expected responses to marketing initiatives. Fund distribution and reporting generation provide ease of use, flexibility and visibility to fund utilization at different states of the process.

Direct-to-consumer solutions offer additions to the base product and complement existing processes with the use of features like reason codes, sales order-related remittances and a personalization engine to help guide product individualizations.

Microsoft’s postage and handling function provides revenue streams from shipment activities. Strategies based on weights and distances, flat fees and free shipping can be leveraged to generate automatic sales charges to sales orders.

Microsoft’s retail reporting pack provides visibility into retail transactions at various levels of granularity and from different perspectives. Analysis on sales, discounts, products sold and day-to-day activities are provided to several audiences.

Lot trace and safety brings a versatile and easy-to-use platform for tracking inventory operations. Both downstream and upstream activities throughout the system can be found and relayed. Actions such as inventory blocking selected items can be taken from this platform.

The ProShip accelerator adds to the base D365FO shipping functionality by providing integration with ProShip services. This facilitates automatic and pseudo-mechanized carrier selection for outbound shipments.

This accelerator integrates with Xtracta's cloud-based OCR engine to automatically convert accounts payable data in scanned images to text for processing. The cloud-based OCR engine is powered by artificial intelligence, and the use of machine learning eliminates the need for manual template setup.

Advanced financials provides automatic bank file retrieval into D365 for processing. From the electronic deposit workbench, the imported data is available for analysis and payment application. Once approved, payment journals are automatically created.

The TraceGains accelerator integrates with TraceGains supplier management, which connects suppliers with their customers. The supplier management solution identifies certified product solutions to streamline the supply chain and new product creation process.