42 articles
BYOD in D365 F&O for BI: Setup, Incremental Export, and Why Rows Go Missing

In my first article in this series I walked through the four roads out of D365 Finance and Operations for BI: OData, the entity store, BYOD, and the Synapse and Fabric links. I pro…

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Intercompany Invoicing and Reconciliation in D365: Auto Posting, Due To and Due From, Eliminations

In the pricing article I left the transfer price sitting on the intercompany sales order line and the matching cost on the purchase order line. That is where most projects stop pay…

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The D365 F&O Data Landscape for BI: AxDB, Data Entities, Entity Store, BYOD, and the Lake

I have spent most of my career on the other side of the ERP: not configuring Dynamics 365, but getting numbers out of it that finance, operations and leadership can trust. This art…

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Intercompany Pricing in D365: Where the Transfer Price Comes From and Who Owns the Margin

The planning article ended with planned purchase orders firmed into an intercompany chain. From that moment a number appears on the intercompany sales order and on the intercompany…

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Intercompany Master Planning in D365: Planned Intercompany Demand and the Plan Run Sequence

The first two articles in this intercompany series dealt with documents: the trading relationship and its policies , and then the order chain that those policies produce once a pur…

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The radio buttons on my form were invisible to the agent

I've been quietly enjoying the fact that the ERP MCP server has form tools, not just data tools. Data tools are the obvious half: read, create, update, delete. Fine. But form tools…

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The Intercompany Order Chain in D365: Synchronisation, Direct Delivery, and What You Can Change

In the trade setup article I stopped at the moment the trading relationship exists and the policies are saved. Nothing has been ordered yet. Today I want to follow one order all th…

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BOM Changes and Standard Cost in D365: Timing Cost Recalculations Around Revision Cutovers

In my last article I walked through engineering changes and how to get a revision into BOMs and production orders cleanly. I ended on a promise: the costing side. Because every BOM…

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Intercompany Trade Setup in D365: Trading Relationships, Order Policies, and Defaults

With the asset management thread wrapped up in the asset analytics article , I am starting a new series on a subject that touches almost every multi-entity D365 implementation and…

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Asset Analytics in D365 Asset Management: Lifetime Cost, MTBF, and the Replace or Repair Decision

Every maintenance article I have written in this series ends at the same point: the work order is ended and the cost posts. In the work orders article I made the case that ending o…

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I decorated an X++ class with an attribute — and Copilot started answering questions with my code

What actually happened The 2026 pattern for this is the "AI tool" (Microsoft's word for it — you'll also hear "AI plugin"). You write a normal X++ class, deploy it, and decorate it…

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The Trust Gap in Supply Chain Data

Every company wants real time visibility into their supply chain. Fewer companies actually trust that visibility enough to act on it. I've noticed this pattern again and again arou…

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