TL;DR: Stop letting your Accounts Payable and Procurement teams act as manual data-entry clerks for new vendors. By leveraging D365 F&O’s Vendor Requests, Vendor Collaboration, and Workflows, you can push the busywork back to the vendor and automate the approvals. Trying to manually onboard a new vendor via email chains is a lot like trying to get three kids out the door for school on a Monday morning. Someone is missing a critical piece of information (a W-9 instead of a lef

A kid counts the cash box and says the lemonade stand made $100. Finance has questions. This DynamicsDad blog uses a lemonade stand to explain why revenue is not profit and why D365 F&O margin visibility depends on clean costing, pricing, charges, dimensions, inventory valuation, and operational discipline.

This past weekend, my daughter participated in our town’s annual lemonade stand day. Naturally, my ERP brain turned it into a Dynamics 365 F&O lesson. Because behind every cup of lemonade is product master data, procurement, inventory, production, pricing, cash management, and reporting.

This past weekend, my daughter participated in our town’s annual lemonade stand day. And when I say lemonade stand day, I do not mean one card table in a driveway with a handwritten sign and a pitcher of lemonade. I mean the town shows up. There are probably 30 to 40 lemonade stands scattered around, kids competing, music playing, families driving from stop to stop, and enough sugar in the air to make every dentist in a 10-mile radius start quietly updating their retirement p