Business Central 2024 wave 2 (BC25): Suggest item substitutions with Copilot

Dynamics 365 Business Central

Hi, Readers.
Dynamics 365 Business Central 2024 wave 2 (BC25) is generally available. More details: General availability: Dynamics 365 Business Central 2024 release wave 2 (BC25).

I will continue to test and share some new features that I hope will be helpful. In this post, I would like to talk about Suggest item substitutions with Copilot in Business Central 2024 release wave 2 (BC25).

Create product information faster with Copilot:

Business value:
In a business landscape that changes fast, companies often need to evolve the portfolio of products they sell. Whether it’s adding new products, changing existing products, or adding 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, which means you have more time to focus on what matters most, your business.

Feature details:
Because product (item) information is spread out across several pages, 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 add items by reusing information from similar items. Copilot can suggest the following information:

  • Variants
  • Units of Measure
  • Substitutions
  • Dimensions
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dynamics365/release-plan/2024wave2/smb/dynamics365-business-central/create-product-information-faster-copilot?wt.mc_id=DX-MVP-5004336

This is mentioned in Business Central Launch Event 2014 release wave 2 – Recording of Live Opening.

Business Central Launch Event 2014 release wave 2 – Recording of Live Opening

And What’s new: Item Substitution with Copilot

What's new: Item Substitution with Copilot

You can set up items to have replacements, such as other items that can be used in place of the original item. More details: Dynamics 365 Business Central: Item Substitution

For example: Item 1925-W substituted with 1896-S, 1900-S and 1906-S.

With this wave (BC25), we can add substitutions through Copilot. When you manage Item Substitution information, Copilot can assist by suggesting data from similar products (items). Copilot assistance not only reduces the time it takes to create a product, but it also ensures that your products are ready to transact faster than ever before. Let’s see more details.

PS: Before use, please confirm whether the following capability (Create product information) is activated.
Business Central 2024 wave 2 (BC25): Start using Copilot without having to set things up

Choose Substitutions to open the Item Substitution Entry page.

You can see a new Copilot prompt action, Suggest with Copilot.
PS: Business Central 2024 wave 1 (BC24): Copilot prompt actions (Floating action bar)

After clicking, there is no need to enter any parameters, the system will generate them automatically.

For example, 1896-S ATHENS Desk

1900-S ∙ PARIS Guest Chair, black

You can also click the Edit icon in the upper left corner to edit the default prompt.

Then choose Generate to generate again.

PS:

We can choose View -> Lines and Confidence -> Generate to check the Score and Confidence

You can choose Delete Line to delete the lines you don’t need.

Select Insert all and the records will be inserted.

It’s that simple. Test video:

Great, give it a try!!!😁

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Hope this will help.

Thanks for reading.

ZHU

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