Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central Supply Chain Management (Business User) — Lesson 2: Purchasing, Vendors, and Replenishment

Learning Objectives

• Manage vendors, purchase quotes, orders, receipts, invoices, and returns
• Apply replenishment, planning parameters, lead times, and availability decisions
• Review purchasing controls, approvals, exceptions, and vendor-performance information

Detailed Topics

• Manage vendors: Manage vendors, purchase quotes, orders, receipts, invoices, and returns
• Apply replenishment: Apply replenishment, planning parameters, lead times, and availability decisions
• Review purchasing controls: Review purchasing controls, approvals, exceptions, and vendor-performance information

Guided Demonstration

1. Review the requirement, environment, dependencies, roles, risks, and expected outcome.
2. Demonstrate the relevant configuration, analysis, code, or administration workflow step by step.
3. Capture settings, outputs, logs, screenshots, calculations, or test evidence.
4. Compare the observed result with the stated acceptance criteria.

Hands-On Activity

Complete a purchasing and replenishment scenario from demand to receipt.

• Document assumptions and the planned sequence before making changes.
• Complete the activity and preserve evidence of normal and exception behavior.
• Record issues, corrective actions, and reusable operational or development notes.

Troubleshooting Focus

• Separate symptoms from causes and collect evidence before applying a fix.
• Check configuration, permissions, data, dependencies, capacity, connectivity, and recent changes.
• Validate rollback, recovery, support ownership, and user or business impact.

Validation Checklist

• The requirement and expected outcome are clear.
• The selected configuration, design, query, code, or process is documented.
• Normal, boundary, failure, security, and operational conditions are reviewed.
• The result is supported by evidence and the next improvement is prioritized.

Lesson Outcome

Learners can explain and apply Purchasing, Vendors, and Replenishment in a realistic scenario and validate the result with documented evidence.