Ace Your MB-330 Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations Exam

A: Commitment types

Each line in a purchase agreement is a commitment to buy something. You can use lines from multiple purchase orders (POs) to fulfill the commitment. There are four types of commitments:

Product quantity commitment – You purchase a specific quantity of a product.

Product value commitment – You purchase a specific currency amount of a product.

Product category value commitment – You purchase a specific currency amount in a procurement category. The amount can be for a catalog item or a non-catalog item.

Value commitment – You purchase a specific currency amount of any product or products in any procurement category.

Policies for purchase agreements

B: The following policies affect the way that the link between a purchase agreement commitment and the corresponding PO lines works:

Max is enforced – The total quantity or amount for all order lines can't exceed the quantity or amount that is specified on the related commitment.

Price and discount is fixed – The price on an order line and the price on the related commitment must be the same. If the price is changed on the order line, the link to the commitment is broken. If the link is broken, the order line doesn't contribute to the fulfillment of the commitment.

Minimum release amount and Maximum release amount – If an amount is specified, you receive a message if you make any change to an order line that causes the order line to differ from the related commitment.

Note: As whiteboard paint grows in popularity, so does the demand. This causes supply shortages. Whiteboard paint is ordered six months in advance.

Requirements. Customers and sales

(A) Schools must agree to the amount of whiteboard paint they will purchase for the whole school year.

(B) Sales of whiteboard paint must be limited so that one school does not buy all the inventory and force backorders for other schools.

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Box 1: Price group

A school that is part of the special paint program reports that a sale price on canvas last month was a better price than its paint program price. The school requests a price adjustment.

Trade Agreement Logic

Before we go and set up a trade agreement let’s first discuss how the system evaluates trade agreements. When Dynamics 365 Finance and Operations evaluates trade agreements it tries to find the most specific pricing that falls within the validity dates. What I mean by “most specific” pricing is, the system checks the “Party type code” as well as the “Product code type” to see if there is a valid price specific to that customer or vendor for the specific product selected on the sales order or purchase order line respectively. Then if it cannot find that most specific combinations it looks for the next level up which are the price groups and then finally if it can’t find prices at the group level it looks for prices that may apply to all vendors or customers.

Box 2: Find next on trade agreement line for select customers only

The next trade agreement type is a line discount. As the name suggests a line discount will appear on the sales order line as a percentage discount or a per unit discount depending on how the trade agreement is set up.