A company uses Dynamics 365 Supply Chain Management. You need to use Microsoft Flow to automate the process of receiving and tracking raw materials. Which type of connector should you use?

Dynamics 365 Supply Chain Management is a Finance and Operations (F&O) application. The "Dynamics 365 for Fin & Ops" connector is the purpose-built connector for Power Automate (formerly Microsoft Flow) to interact directly with F&O applications. It allows flows to be triggered by business events, such as the receipt of materials, and to execute actions like creating or updating records within the Supply Chain Management module. This makes it the most direct and appropriate tool for automating the described process.

A. Common Data Service: While F&O data can be synchronized with Microsoft Dataverse (formerly Common Data Service), this is not the primary connector for automating core F&O business processes and events.
B. Dynamics 365: This is a legacy connector that has been superseded by the more specific Microsoft Dataverse and "Dynamics 365 for Fin & Ops" connectors.
D. Dynamic Signal: This is a connector for a third-party employee communication platform and has no functional relationship with Dynamics 365 Supply Chain Management. ---

1. Microsoft Learn. (2023). Finance and Operations apps connector reference. This official documentation explicitly states

"Microsoft Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations provides organizations with enterprise resource planning (ERP) for their business. With this connector

you can create flows that are triggered by Finance and Operations business events."

Source: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/connectors/dynamicsax/

2. Microsoft Learn. (2023). Business events overview. This document details how business events in Finance and Operations apps

such as Supply Chain Management

are used as triggers for external systems

specifically mentioning Microsoft Power Automate as a primary endpoint. The integration is facilitated by the F&O connector.

Source: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dynamics365/fin-ops-core/dev-itpro/business-events/home-page

Section: "Business events consumption".

3. Microsoft Learn. (2023). Microsoft Dataverse connector reference. The documentation for the Dataverse connector (formerly Common Data Service) focuses on its use with model-driven apps like Dynamics 365 Sales

Customer Service

and Field Service

distinguishing it from the dedicated F&O connector.

Source: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/connectors/commondataserviceforapps/