Dynamics 365 Project Operations has made significant improvements to consistently apply tax calculations and expanded support for scenarios including sales tax across the application. This new functionality standardizes behavior and establishes common rules to simplify how taxes are calculated and ensures consistency in how cost price, sales price, and taxes interact together. Read on for more information.  

Streamline cost price and sales price calculations 

With the 10.0.32 release, the Streamline cost price and sales price calculations feature is available to be enabled in your Dynamics 365 environment. With this change, improvements have been made to project-related scenarios in the following areas: 

• Purchase orders and vendor invoices created in combination with the general ledger parameter for applying taxation rules 
• Purchase orders and vendor invoices in combination with posting with amounts including sales tax 
• Tax involving use tax 
• Funding source limits 
• Committed costs 
• Purchase order corrections 
• Adds support for “amount include sales tax” in the Purchase Order header 

Let’s dive into the basics of how sales and costs interact. This feature and scenarios are targeting the Dynamics 365 Project Operations for production/stocked deployment model. For any project expense type transaction, Dynamics 365 can modify the sales price dynamically based on one of several factors defined in the sales price – expense form. One of the commonly used methods is to apply a charges percentage markup, to mark up all costs by a set amount. For example, a 5% markup on all expenses which makes a $1000 expense invoiceable at $1050 by defaulting that sales price in the vendor invoice which will later transfer to our customer invoice.  

Next, we want to understand how taxes impact costs. The two scenarios below are situations where taxes should be included in the project cost.  

• Legal entities with the sales tax parameter Sales taxation rules is enabled. Typically, this is US-based legal entities.  
• Legal entities with non-deductible tax percentages. This non-deductible tax is always included in the project cost. 

Let’s look at some specific examples to understand how prices and taxes are calculated. For these examples, the tax percentage is set to 5% and there is a sales price 5% markup on cost price. We will follow the document flow of a purchase order through to a vendor invoice and review the financial impact in the posted project transactions form.  

Similarly, these same rules apply when determining the project cost and sales price when entering a purchase order with an amount that already includes sales tax. In the case of the purchase order or vendor invoice, there is an option in the header that prices include sales tax to indicate the amount entered should be inclusive of tax and the base amount and tax need to be calculated from the entered amount. Since the actual cost and sales price may include a markup of tax, the amounts entered for sales price and cost will be recalculated and different values will be posted in the final voucher. Consider the examples below with the same 5% tax rate and 5% markup described earlier: 

Check it out for yourself 

In conclusion, this new feature is available in Dynamics 365 10.0.32 and later releases. Enable the Streamline sales tax calculations with project cost and sales price feature in your test environment and look for yourself.  

Additional documentation 

For more information, see https://aka.ms/ProjEnableStreamlineCostAndSalesPriceCalcFeature.

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Dynamics 365 Project Operations has made significant improvements to consistently apply tax calculations and expanded support for scenarios including sales tax across the application. This new functionality standardizes behavior and establishes common rules to simplify how taxes are calculated and ensures consistency in how cost price, sales price, and taxes interact together. Read on for more information.  

Streamline cost price and sales price calculations 

With the 10.0.32 release, the Streamline cost price and sales price calculations feature is available to be enabled in your Dynamics 365 environment. With this change, improvements have been made to project-related scenarios in the following areas: 

• Purchase orders and vendor invoices created in combination with the general ledger parameter for applying taxation rules 
• Purchase orders and vendor invoices in combination with posting with amounts including sales tax 
• Tax involving use tax 
• Funding source limits 
• Committed costs 
• Purchase order corrections 
• Adds support for “amount include sales tax” in the Purchase Order header 

Let’s dive into the basics of how sales and costs interact. This feature and scenarios are targeting the Dynamics 365 Project Operations for production/stocked deployment model. For any project expense type transaction, Dynamics 365 can modify the sales price dynamically based on one of several factors defined in the sales price – expense form. One of the commonly used methods is to apply a charges percentage markup, to mark up all costs by a set amount. For example, a 5% markup on all expenses which makes a $1000 expense invoiceable at $1050 by defaulting that sales price in the vendor invoice which will later transfer to our customer invoice.  

Next, we want to understand how taxes impact costs. The two scenarios below are situations where taxes should be included in the project cost.  

• Legal entities with the sales tax parameter Sales taxation rules is enabled. Typically, this is US-based legal entities.  
• Legal entities with non-deductible tax percentages. This non-deductible tax is always included in the project cost. 

Let’s look at some specific examples to understand how prices and taxes are calculated. For these examples, the tax percentage is set to 5% and there is a sales price 5% markup on cost price. We will follow the document flow of a purchase order through to a vendor invoice and review the financial impact in the posted project transactions form.  

Similarly, these same rules apply when determining the project cost and sales price when entering a purchase order with an amount that already includes sales tax. In the case of the purchase order or vendor invoice, there is an option in the header that prices include sales tax to indicate the amount entered should be inclusive of tax and the base amount and tax need to be calculated from the entered amount. Since the actual cost and sales price may include a markup of tax, the amounts entered for sales price and cost will be recalculated and different values will be posted in the final voucher. Consider the examples below with the same 5% tax rate and 5% markup described earlier: 

Check it out for yourself 

In conclusion, this new feature is available in Dynamics 365 10.0.32 and later releases. Enable the Streamline sales tax calculations with project cost and sales price feature in your test environment and look for yourself.  

Additional documentation 

For more information, see https://aka.ms/ProjEnableStreamlineCostAndSalesPriceCalcFeature.

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Knowledge is the lifeblood of customer service organizations. Timely access to the most accurate and relevant knowledge articles critically influences agents’ productivity and ability to deliver exceptional customer support and boost CSAT scores.  

Agents rely on the availability of an up-to-date knowledge base. Additionally, they bring a wealth of tacit insights and personal competency to troubleshoot and resolve customer cases. However, once resolved, these valuable knowledge insights remain trapped unless documented by someone—whether knowledge authors or agents. This process requires additional effort, time, and specialized writing skills. It may also be outside the agents’ core priorities, especially in high-velocity support operations. 

Harvesting such tacit knowledge insights from resolved cases into mainstream knowledge articles can significantly help other agents discover and reuse them, accelerating overall knowledge sharing.   

Introducing knowledge draft assist in Dynamics 365 Customer Service

We’re thrilled to announce the launch of knowledge draft assist, now in preview. This Copilot feature helps agents generate knowledge draft proposals from resolved case data. 

How does it work?

As the agent resolves a case, they can now click the Propose new knowledge using this case checkbox. This triggers Copilot to auto-generate an initial knowledge draft from a set of important case data. Copilot uses case descriptions, email exchanges, summaries, and agent notes to quickly draft a knowledge article. The agent can further revise the article using multi-turn prompts in natural language. 

This auto-generated knowledge draft encompasses symptoms, root causes, troubleshooting steps, and insights. The draft adheres to industry-standard Knowledge-Centered Service (KCS) format. The agent can validate the draft and send it for further content quality and compliance checks to downstream reviewers for approval and publishing.  

Next-generation AI that is ready for enterprises 

Microsoft Azure OpenAI Service offers a range of privacy features, including data encryption and secure storage. It also allows users to control access to their data and provides detailed auditing and monitoring capabilities. Microsoft Dynamics 365 is built on Azure OpenAI, so enterprises can rest assured that it offers the same level of data privacy and protection. 

AI solutions built responsibly 

We are committed to creating responsible AI by design. Our work is guided by a core set of principles: fairness, reliability and safety, privacy and security, inclusiveness, transparency, and accountability. We are putting those principles into practice across the company to develop and deploy AI that will have a positive impact on society. 

Learn more about drafting knowledge articles with Copilot

Watch a quick video introduction.

For more information, read the documentation:

• Enable Copilot to suggest knowledge from cases in Customer Service admin center

• Use Copilot to generate knowledge drafts from cases as an agent  

The post Empower agents to draft case-based knowledge articles with Copilot appeared first on Microsoft Dynamics 365 Blog.

Knowledge is the lifeblood of customer service organizations. Timely access to the most accurate and relevant knowledge articles critically influences agents’ productivity and ability to deliver exceptional customer support and boost CSAT scores.  

Agents rely on the availability of an up-to-date knowledge base. Additionally, they bring a wealth of tacit insights and personal competency to troubleshoot and resolve customer cases. However, once resolved, these valuable knowledge insights remain trapped unless documented by someone—whether knowledge authors or agents. This process requires additional effort, time, and specialized writing skills. It may also be outside the agents’ core priorities, especially in high-velocity support operations. 

Harvesting such tacit knowledge insights from resolved cases into mainstream knowledge articles can significantly help other agents discover and reuse them, accelerating overall knowledge sharing.    

Introducing knowledge draft assist in Dynamics 365 Customer Service

We’re thrilled to announce the launch of knowledge draft assist, now in preview. This Copilot feature helps agents generate knowledge draft proposals from resolved case data. 

How does it work?

As the agent resolves a case, they can now click the Propose new knowledge using this case checkbox. This triggers Copilot to auto-generate an initial knowledge draft from a set of important case data. Copilot uses case descriptions, email exchanges, summaries, and agent notes to quickly draft a knowledge article. The agent can further revise the article using multi-turn prompts in natural language. 

This auto-generated knowledge draft encompasses symptoms, root causes, troubleshooting steps, and insights. The draft adheres to industry-standard Knowledge-Centered Service (KCS) format. The agent can validate the draft and send it for further content quality and compliance checks to downstream reviewers for approval and publishing.  

Next-generation AI that is ready for enterprises 

Microsoft Azure OpenAI Service offers a range of privacy features, including data encryption and secure storage. It also allows users to control access to their data and provides detailed auditing and monitoring capabilities. Microsoft Dynamics 365 is built on Azure OpenAI, so enterprises can rest assured that it offers the same level of data privacy and protection. 

AI solutions built responsibly 

We are committed to creating responsible AI by design. Our work is guided by a core set of principles: fairness, reliability and safety, privacy and security, inclusiveness, transparency, and accountability. We are putting those principles into practice across the company to develop and deploy AI that will have a positive impact on society. 

Learn more about drafting knowledge articles with Copilot 

Watch a quick video introduction.

For more information, read the documentation:

• Enable Copilot to suggest knowledge from cases in Customer Service admin center

• Use Copilot to generate knowledge drafts from cases as an agent  

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