Your 2025 release wave 1 roadmap for Microsoft ERP
Are you ready for what’s coming to your Dynamics 365 Finance and Supply Chain Management system (F&SCM)? Microsoft’s 2025 Release Wave 1 is rolling out between April and September 2025, and honestly, it’s packed with some game-changing features that could transform how your team works every day. Visit the Microsoft site for more details on planned release information.
As your trusted Microsoft Solutions Partner, we at Boyer & Associates have been diving deep into these updates, and we’re excited to share what we think will make the biggest impact for our clients. Let’s walk through the highlights together—and more importantly, discuss how these changes will make your business better.
The AI revolution is here (and it’s actually useful)
The biggest theme of this release wave? Microsoft is going all-in on AI and Copilot integration. Not surprised as AI is all the buzz this year. But here’s the thing—this isn’t just flashy tech for tech’s sake. These AI enhancements are designed to tackle the mundane, time-consuming tasks that eat up your team’s day. Check these out:
Finance gets smarter with Copilot-first experiences
Dynamics 365 Finance capabilities are designed with a copilot-first experience, delivering enhanced automation and agentic capabilities. This release focuses on simplifying complex tax management and regulatory compliance, automating account reconciliations with agents, improving bank reconciliation processes, and adding intelligence to planning.
What does this mean for your finance team? Well, instead of spending hours on account reconciliations at month-end, your system can now handle much of this work proactively and in real-time. We continue our preview of the account reconciliation agent, moving this process from end of period to a systematic, real-time experience.
At Boyer, we’ve seen firsthand how manual reconciliation processes can bog down finance teams. With these new AI agents, your team can focus on analysis and strategic decision-making instead of data matching—exactly the kind of efficiency gain that pays for itself quickly.
Supply chain gets an intelligence boost
Dynamics 365 Supply Chain Management advances autonomy by integrating intelligence, automation, and analytics to improve productivity and organizational adaptability. How so you ask? The standout feature here is the new Supplier Communications Agent, which automates those tedious vendor follow-ups and helps improve purchase order accuracy.
Think about how much time your procurement team spends chasing suppliers for delivery confirmations or order status updates. This agent can handle routine communications automatically, freeing your team to focus on strategic sourcing and relationship building. Watch this 3-minute video to learn more.
Manufacturing and planning get major upgrades
For our manufacturing clients, this release wave brings some particularly exciting enhancements:
Demand Planning Revolution: Copilot, generative insights, and cell-level explainability improve forecasting accuracy. This isn’t just about better predictions—it’s about understanding why the system is making certain forecasts, giving your planning team the context they need to make informed adjustments.
Quality Management Digitization: New features include optimized testing strategies and digitized records for quality management. If you’re in a regulated industry, this could be a huge compliance and efficiency win.
The Planning Optimization engine also gets enhanced support for lean manufacturing and catches weight pricing systems—features that many of our distribution and manufacturing clients have been asking for.
Business performance analytics: your new strategic advantage
One area we’re particularly excited about is the expanded business performance suite. The business performance suite of capabilities brings together analytics, planning, and insights as an extensible solution on a single platform to continuously plan, act, and analyze your financial and operational data.
Here’s what makes this special: you can now create dimensions and cubes using Copilot in business performance planning, dramatically reducing the time it takes to set up new analytical views. For organizations that have struggled with complex planning implementations, this could be a game-changer.
Watch in awe how easily your team can build data models.
Why partner with Boyer for these updates?
As we’ve learned over our years of partnership with businesses across manufacturing, distribution, and nonprofit sectors, technology updates are only as good as their implementation and adoption. That’s where Boyer’s approach makes the difference.
We listen first: Just like Eric from Mall of America told us, “The biggest thing that they’ve [Boyer] always done for us is they’ve listened to our needs.” These new features are powerful, but they need to be configured and deployed in a way that matches your specific business processes.
We understand your industry: Whether you’re managing complex supply chains like Owl’s Head Alloys or coordinating vast operations like Mall of America, we bring industry-specific insights to help you maximize these new capabilities.
We’re your long-term technology partner: These release waves happen twice a year, and each one brings new opportunities to optimize your operations. With Boyer as your Microsoft Solutions Partner, you have a team that stays current on every update and helps you prioritize which features will deliver the most value for your specific situation.
Getting ready for release wave 1
So, what should you be doing now? Here are our recommendations:
Start planning early: Many of these features will need administrator configuration before your users can take advantage of them. We recommend reviewing the full release plan with your team to identify which capabilities align with your current pain points.
Consider change management: AI-powered features can dramatically change how people work. Our experience shows that organizations that invest in proper training and change management see much faster adoption and ROI.
Test in your sandbox first: We strongly recommend testing new capabilities in a sandbox environment first—and Boyer can help set up and manage this testing process.
This release wave represents Microsoft’s most significant investment yet in making Dynamics 365 F&SCM truly intelligent and autonomous. The potential for efficiency gains is enormous but realizing that potential requires thoughtful planning and expert implementation.
Reach out – we’re not just here to implement software—we’re here to make your business better through technology. These new features offer incredible opportunities to streamline operations, reduce manual work, and gain deeper insights into your business performance.
Contact Boyer & Associates today to schedule your Release Wave 1 planning session. Because you shouldn’t have to spend so much time working on your technology that it interferes with your actual business—let us take care of the tech so you can focus on what’s important.
