From the Microsoft Dynamics 365 Finance and Supply Chain Management: Business performance planning; Financial planning; Prevent empty POs; Retail procurement

In this review of the Dynamics 365 Finance and Supply Chain Management blogs:

• Business performance planning in D365 Finance
• The future of financial reporting: SSRS
• How to prevent users from creating empty POs
• Streamlining retail procurement

Business performance planning in Microsoft Dynamics 365 Finance

An author writing on the Ellipse Solutions blog noted that managing finances can be a hassle, especially when you’re stuck digging through endless Excel spreadsheets and complicated formulas. 

Business performance planning (BPP) offers a better way, the author wrote. With BPP, Microsoft uses Power BI to turn your financial data into easy-to-read visuals. The author noted that this lets you explore your financial data in a graphical setting and interact with that data to see changes in real time — no more dealing with Excel spreadsheets and endless v-lookups.

In the blog post, the author explained in detail how business performance planning works in D365 Finance.

The future of financial reporting: how SSRS in Dynamics 365 is transforming finance teams

On the CloudFronts blog, Raviraj Hirve wrote that D365 Finance and Operations comes with built-in reports, but many companies need custom reports that are tailored to their unique business needs. And that’s where X++ and SSRS (SQL Server Reporting Services) become important, according to Hirve.