[Ann] Warehouse management app for Dynamics 365 SCM is in Public Preview

The day has come when we are ready for Public preview of the reworked Warehouse management app. 

Summary

The Warehouse Management app is a complete remake, using the “frontline worker” visual style, as seen in Production floor execution and HoloLens Guide. The new design concepts are based on extensive usability studies including a broad worker population. The solution is designed to help workers be more efficient, productive, and better able to complete work accurately.

The new solution provides the following benefits and capabilities:

• Faster task execution
• “Spinner” for fast quantity input
• Buttons easy to hit with gloves
• Clear text on dirty screens
• Buttons in best corner for user’s grip
• Easier ramp-up of temp workers
• Title and illustration per step
• Full-screen photo to verify product
• Solves top user pain points
• Menu hard to use
• Gray text hard to read
• Hard to learn what step means
• Settings sync’ed from FnO
• Instruction per task step, company can edit
• Great foundation for next steps
• Meets WCAG 2.1 accessibility with focus on situational disabilities
• Scales text to 400%
• Scales buttons to 200%
• Scaling to fit any device type
• Based on resulting sizes of elements
• Swaps parts
• Changes layout sequence

Demo

You can watch a quick overview of the new app in below video recording (by Markus Fogelberg, our PM):

Or go in for a more in-depth look at some of the scalability / user configuration features available in the new app (also recorded and voiced over by Markus):

Documentation

Available on Microsoft Docs

Feedback

There's still work to be done to iron out the kinks here and there, but we are proud of what we've been able to build here, and would love to hear your feedback on it, so please don't be shy :)

The best way to reach us for this is through Yammer - if you are not familiar or do not know how to connect, reach out to me in the comments or through other community sites, and I'll set you up!

Warehouse Mobile Devices Portal - Now as an App for your mobile device

Our team has been working on an application that would eventually replace the existing web-site based Warehouse Mobile Devices Portal (WMDP), as we see the trend of warehouses relying more and more on phone-based devices with added scanner capabilities (Honeywell Dolphin 75e, for example).

We are happy to announce that the app is now publicly available.
Installation and configuration instructions,  as well as download links, can be found on the Dynamics 365 for Operations wiki website:
https://ax.help.dynamics.com/en/wiki/install-and-configure-dynamics-365-for-operations-warehousing/

The app works on Windows 10 devices, as well as Android devices. iOS is not supported, since such devices are generally not used in warehouses due to high cost and some technical limitations.

The app only works with Dynamics 365 for Operations, so older releases like AX 2012 R3 can only use the old WMDP web site.

The app is an alternative front-end to all the business logic and screen generation logic in X++, so does not contain any business logic inside, similar to the old WMDP.

As you will see, we have re-worked the user interface, focusing on showing as few controls as possible at once, adding cards for showing grouped data like on-hand info, work list, etc. A special keyboard to entering quantities, support for scanning, etc.

Here is how the app looks on a Windows Phone:

Log in screen for new WMDP app

We are very excited to get this out into your hands and are looking for feedback. So don't be shy :)

Update 2017-01-20: Read a much more detailed description from Markus on the SCM blog:
https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/dynamicsaxscm/2017/01/20/announcing-dynamics-365-for-operations-warehousing/