This post is part of the New Functionality In Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central 2024 Wave 1 series in which I am taking a look at the new functionality introduced in Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central 2024 Wave 1.
The 7th of the new functionality in the Copilot and AI innovation section is create product information faster with Copilot.
In a business landscape that changes fast, companies often need to evolve the portfolio of products they sell. Whether it’s a handful of new products, modifications to existing products, or entire new product lines and categories, it’s often time consuming to create and manage product (item) information. Copilot can significantly reduce this effort and accelerate the time to market for new products to meet customer demand. This means more time for you to focus on what matters most, your business. Copilot is the AI-powered assistant for work that boosts creativity and improves productivity for Business Central users.
Enabled for: Users, automatically
Public Preview: Jul 2024
General Availability: –
Feature Details
Because product (item) information in Business Central is spread out across several tables, creating and managing this information can be a time-consuming task. The effort involves looking up information based on existing items, pasting values, and ensuring the new product is ready to transact. Creating variants, dimensions, units of measure, and other item-related information also takes time that delays market readiness for new products.
Copilot can help you create item-related information based on similar items. To begin with, Copilot can suggest the following item-related information:
- Variants
- Units of Measure
- Substitutions
- Dimensions
When you manage a product and work with the pages that manage this information, Copilot offers assistance by suggesting the data. Powered by AI, Copilot finds similar products (items) and suggests meaningful data for the related tables.
Not only does this assistance reduce the time it takes to create a product, but it also ensures that your products are ready to transact faster than ever before.
Note
This feature is available as a production-ready preview for production and sandbox environments in any country localization, with the exception of Canada. Production-ready previews are subject to supplemental terms of use. For more information, see Supplemental terms of use for Dynamics 365 preview. AI-generated content may be incorrect.
Geographic areas
This feature will be released into the following Microsoft Azure geographic areas:
- Germany
- Norway
- Singapore
- South Africa
- Switzerland
- United Arab Emirates
- United States
- Europe
- Asia Pacific
- United Kingdom
- Australia
- South America
- India
- Japan
- France
- Korea
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My Opinion
Most of the clients with whom I work with who have stock, tend to have large quantities of it and create data in Business Central through the use of imports using configuration packages or other tools. I’m not sure how much use this function will get?
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