Stop Drowning in PO Changes: Let Copilot Manage the Risk

 Stop Drowning in PO Changes: Let Copilot Manage the Risk

Are your procurement managers overwhelmed by vendors changing dates and quantities after orders are confirmed?

In the latest Dynamics 365 Supply Chain Management updates, Copilot acts as an intelligent risk assessor. It doesn't just list changes; it analyzes them to tell you which ones actually matter.

What it does:

The "Confirmed purchase orders with changes" workspace uses Copilot to scan all incoming changes from vendors. It automatically categorizes them into:

1. Low Impact: Changes that don't affect downstream sales or production orders.

2. High Impact: Changes that will cause delays to customers or manufacturing lines.

Copilot then provides a natural language summary of the low-impact changes, allowing you to bulk-approve them with confidence, while flagging the high-risk items for manual review.

Key Benefits:

• Risk Mitigation: Instantly spot changes that threaten your production schedule.

• Mass Approval: safely approve hundreds of minor date slips in one click based on AI analysis.

• Communication: Copilot can draft emails to vendors to negotiate the high-impact changes.

Technical / Configuration Note:

To enable this, you must have the specific feature flags turned on in Feature Management.

• Feature Name: Confirmed purchase orders with changes

• Copilot Feature: Purchase order changes after confirmation

If you are a developer looking to check if this feature is enabled in X++ before running custom logic, you can use the standard FeatureStateProvider:

Code snippet

// Example: Check if the feature is enabled in X++
if (FeatureStateProvider::isFeatureEnabled(classStr(PurchCoordPurchaseOrderChangesAfterConfirmationFeature)))
{
    // Execute logic relevant to the new workspace
    info("PO Changes Workspace is active.");
}

Official Microsoft References:

• Feature Guide (Verified): Review and accept changes to confirmed purchase orders

• FAQ (Verified): Responsible AI FAQ for purchase order changes