Sixteen years is a long time to work with any software platform. Long enough to see it evolve from what felt like a clunky on-premise system into one of the most capable cloud ERP platforms on the market. Long enough to have implemented it dozens of times across distribution centers, manufacturing floors, and everything in between.
It’s also long enough to notice a gap.
There’s a lot of Dynamics 365 content out there. Microsoft’s own documentation is thorough — sometimes exhaustively so. But there’s a shortage of content that bridges the gap between “what this feature does” and “why you’d actually want it, and how it fits into a real operation.”
That’s what this blog is for.
Who This Is For
If you’re a solution architect trying to design a warehousing strategy for a client with a complex picking operation — this is for you.
If you’re an operations manager at a distribution company who just went live on D365 and is wondering why your wave processing isn’t behaving the way you expected — this is for you.
If you’re a consultant who’s solid on the functional side but wants to go deeper on the supply chain modules — this is for you.
What You’ll Find Here
Expect posts on:
- Advanced Warehousing — wave templates, work creation, cluster picking, directed putaway logic
- Transportation Management — rate shopping, load building, carrier integration
- Inventory Management — costing methods, movement journals, quality orders
- Production Control — production orders, BOMs, routes, and reporting in discrete manufacturing
- ERP Strategy — how to think about implementations, scoping decisions, and change management
I’ll keep it practical. Real scenarios. Real decisions. The kind of thing that comes up in design sessions, not just in the documentation.
The Bourbon Angle
The name is a nod to one of my other interests. Good bourbon is the product of time, craft, and simplification — you start with raw ingredients and through a careful process, something complex becomes clear and refined.
That’s the goal here. D365 SCM is a deep, complex platform. The goal of this blog is to distill it — to take the complexity and make it accessible, without losing the substance.
Pull up a chair.
— Dan