
The MB-330: Microsoft Dynamics 365 Supply Chain Management Functional Consultant certification is designed for professionals responsible for designing and configuring solutions in Dynamics 365 Supply Chain Management that align with specific business requirements. Certified candidates are expected to understand the complete supply chain lifecycle and utilize system capabilities to implement solutions in accordance with industry best practices.
– Core Knowledge Areas
As a functional consultant, you should have hands-on expertise in deploying and managing the following key features and modules within Dynamics 365 Supply Chain Management:
- Product Information Management
- Sales and Procurement Processes
- Vendor Collaboration
- Inventory Management
- Quality Control Procedures
- Warehouse Management and Mobile App Integration
- Master Planning and Planning Optimization
- Asset Lifecycle Management
- Transportation Management
- Landed Cost Tracking
- Copilot and AI Features in Dynamics 365 Supply Chain
– Responsibilities and Capabilities
Successful candidates are proficient in:
- Analyzing cross-functional business requirements
- Mapping business needs to system features to create efficient and scalable solutions
- Managing interdependencies across processes
- Applying best practices in enterprise solution implementation
– Collaboration and Solution Delivery
To ensure successful implementation, you collaborate closely with a variety of stakeholders, including:
- Solution Architects
- Developers
- Functional Consultants
- Business Users
- Project Managers
- Other key stakeholders
Exam Details
Exam MB-330: Microsoft Dynamics 365 Supply Chain Management Functional Consultant is designed for individuals at an intermediate level, specifically targeting the role of a Functional Consultant. The exam assesses a candidate’s ability to implement and configure Dynamics 365 Supply Chain Management in alignment with business requirements.
Candidates are allotted 100 minutes to complete the exam, which is proctored and may include interactive tasks. The exam is available in English and Japanese. To pass, a minimum score of 700 is required. Microsoft provides accommodations for individuals who use assistive technologies, require additional time, or need specific modifications to the exam experience. These accommodations can be requested before taking the assessment.
Course Outline
The exam covers the following topics:
1. Implementing product information management (20-25%)
Creating and managing products
- creating and releasing products and product variants (Microsoft Documentation: Create products )
- create and apply product templates (Microsoft Documentation: Product templates)
- Creating bills of materials (BOMs) and BOM versions
- create and configure category hierarchies (Microsoft Documentation: Create and configure category hierarchies and attributes)
- Creating and managing product states during the life cycle of a product (Microsoft Documentation: Product lifecycle state overview)
- Creating and managing product attributes (Microsoft Documentation: Manage attributes and attribute groups)
Configuring prerequisites for products
- Configuring inventory dimensions, including storage, tracking, and product dimension groups (Microsoft Documentation: About inventory dimensions and dimension groups)
- Creating item model groups
- Configuring reservation hierarchies (Microsoft Documentation: Set up reservation hierarchies)
- Configuring unit sequence groups
Configuring additional product details
- Creating and assigning bar codes and Global Trade Item Number (GTIN) codes (Microsoft Documentation: GS1 bar codes)
- Configuring product unit conversions (Microsoft Documentation: Set up units and unit conversions (Retail essentials))
- Configuring default order settings (Microsoft Documentation: Default order settings for dimensions and product variants)
- Configuring product filter codes for warehouse operations
Managing inventory pricing and costing
- Configuring and maintaining costing versions for standard and planned costs (Microsoft Documentation: Costing versions overview)
- Configuring price groups
- Configuring items with standard costs (Microsoft Documentation: Prerequisites for standard costs overview)
- Configuring default item prices, purchase and sales prices, and discounts in trade agreements Create a new trade agreement)
2. Implementing inventory and asset management (15–20%)
Managing and processing inventory activities
- Creating and processing journals, including BOMs, item arrival, output order, transfer, movement, inventory adjustment, and counting journals (Microsoft Documentation: Inventory journals )
- creating and processing transfer orders (Microsoft Documentation: Create and process transfer orders from the warehouse app )
- Describing the inventory closing and adjustment process (Microsoft Documentation: Inventory close )
- Apply and remove inventory blocking manually (Microsoft Documentation: Inventory blocking )
- Creating batch disposition codes
- Configure and run inventory reports including ABC classification
Managing quality
- Configuring and processing nonconformances (Microsoft Documentation: Create and process nonconformances)
- Configuring quality associations (Microsoft Documentation: Quality associations)
- Configuring components for the quality control process
- Processing quality orders (Microsoft Documentation: Quality orders)
- Processing quarantine orders (Microsoft Documentation: Quarantine orders)
Configuring asset management
- Creating and managing work orders (Microsoft Documentation: Manually created work orders)
- Creating and configuring assets and asset types (Microsoft Documentation: Create an asset)
- Viewing and managing capacity for work orders
- Configuring work order settings
- Scheduling preventive maintenance and reactive maintenance (Microsoft Documentation: Schedule maintenance plans)
- Managing and configuring asset loans (Microsoft Documentation: Asset loans)
- Creating and configuring asset lifecycle models and states
Implementing asset management
- Configuring maintenance plans
- Configuring functional locations (Microsoft Documentation: Create functional locations)
- Managing maintenance requests (Microsoft Documentation: Maintenance requests)
- Managing work orders consumption (Microsoft Documentation: Introduction to work orders)
- Managing work order scheduling
3. Implementing and managing supply chain processes (20–25%)
Implementing Procurement and sourcing
- Creating and maintaining vendors
- creating and managing purchase requisitions, requests for quotes (RFQs), and purchase orders (POs) (Microsoft Documentation: Creating purchase requisitions )
- Creating purchase agreements and vendor rebates
- Configuring and processing consignment inventory (Microsoft Documentation: Inventory management overview )
- managing over and under deliveries and delivery schedules (Microsoft Documentation: Delivery schedules )
- Configuring procurement categories, charge codes, and purchasing policies (Microsoft Documentation: Purchasing policies overview)
- Configuring vendor collaboration features
- Create and process vendor returns (Microsoft Documentation: Process sales return orders)
- Managing registration and product receipt
- Configuring procurement workflows (Microsoft Documentation: Set up Procurement and sourcing workflows)
Implementing landed cost
- Configuring landed cost parameters and voyage statuses (Microsoft Documentation: Landed cost parameters setup)
- Creating and processing voyage with purchase orders or transfer orders
- Configuring cost estimations, tracking control center, over/under tolerance setup, and journey templates (Microsoft Documentation: Work breakdown structures overview)
- Configuring cost type codes and auto-costs
- Track inbound voyages and shipping container journeys
Implementing common sales and marketing features
- Creating and maintaining customers
- Configuring sales agreements
- Configuring and processing sales quotations, sales orders, and sales returns (Microsoft Documentation: Create a sales quotation)
- configuring sales groups, commissions (Microsoft Documentation: Configure and use commissions )
- Configuring and processing intercompany orders
- Configure and process customer rebates
- Configure and manage delivery schedule, available-to-promise (ATP), and capable-to-promise (CTP)
- Configure and use product bundles
4. Implementing warehouse management and transportation management (25–30%)
Configuring warehouse management
- creating sites, warehouses, locations, location formats, location profiles, location types, and zones (Microsoft Documentation: Warehouse management overview )
- Configuring work policies and work breaks
- Implementing location directives (Microsoft Documentation: Location directives )
- Configuring wave, load, and work templates
- Create and print labels, including product, wave, GS1 label segments, and license plate labels
- Configuring packing dimensions
- Configure inbound receiving process
- Configuring outbound shipment process
- Configuring and update inventory status
Performing warehouse management processes
- Configuring and processing replenishment
- Managing load planning workbench
- Configure and process inventory movements via warehouse work
- Creating cycle counting work and perform cycle counting (Microsoft Documentation: Cycle counting )
- Process inbound and outbound orders by using the Warehouse Management mobile app (Microsoft Documentation: Inbound operations, Outbound operations)
- Configuring containerization and packaging options
- Configuring and processing cross docking
Implementing transportation management
- Configuring shipping carriers and carrier groups
- perform planning and executing of loads and shipments (Microsoft Documentation: Plan loads and shipments using the Load planning workbench )
- configuring and generating freight bills and invoices (Microsoft Documentation: Plan freight transportation routes with multiple stops )
- configuring route plans and guides (Microsoft Documentation: Transportation management engines )
- configuring route and rate engines (Microsoft Documentation: Transportation management engines)
- configuring and use dock appointment scheduling (Microsoft Documentation: Set up an appointment for a load )
- Reconcile freight by using manual or automatic processes
Implement the Warehouse Management mobile app
- Configure mobile device menus, menu items, and display settings
- Configure detours for mobile device steps
- Install and configure the Warehouse Management mobile app
- Create and manage warehouse workers for the Warehouse Management mobile app
5. Implement master planning (10–15%)
Configuring master planning
- Set up coverage groups and item coverage (Microsoft Documentation: Coverage settings )
- configure and maintain master planning parameters and master plan (Microsoft Documentation: Master plans overview )
- Define positive and negative days
- Define action messages, delay messages, and time fences (Microsoft Documentation: Master plans overview)
- configure period templates (Microsoft Documentation: Create working time templates)
Managing master plans
- Running master planning and analyze the results (Microsoft Documentation: Master planning system architecture)
- Evaluate and process planned purchase and transfer orders (Microsoft Documentation: Master planning with purchase trade agreements)
- Set up and use the Supply Schedule form (Microsoft Documentation: Supply schedule)
- Configuring safety margins
- Configuring and processing safety stock journals
Microsoft MB-330 Exam FAQs
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Microsoft MB-330 Exam Study Guide
Step 1: Understand the Exam Objectives Thoroughly
The first and most critical step in your MB-330 preparation journey is gaining a clear understanding of the exam objectives. Microsoft publishes a detailed skills outline that breaks down the key functional areas covered in the exam. These include product information management, sales and procurement processes, inventory and warehouse operations, and planning optimization, among others. Carefully review each topic to identify what’s expected and assess your current level of familiarity with each domain. This foundational step ensures that your study plan is aligned with the actual exam content.
Step 2: Use Official Microsoft Learning Resources
Once you have a grasp of the exam topics, leverage Microsoft’s official learning resources. Microsoft Learn offers structured, self-paced learning paths for Microsoft Dynamics 365 Supply Chain Management specifically tailored for MB-330. These modules provide in-depth tutorials, interactive labs, and real-world scenarios that mirror the responsibilities of a supply chain functional consultant. Additionally, you can explore Microsoft’s documentation and technical whitepapers for advanced understanding. Using official content ensures that your preparation is aligned with current product features and certification standards. However, the modules are:
- Configuring and managing products and inventory in Dynamics 365 Supply Chain Management
- Configuring and working with warehouse management in Dynamics 365 Supply Chain Management
- Set up engineering change management for Dynamics 365 Supply Chain Management
- Configuring and using discrete manufacturing in Dynamics 365 Supply Chain Management
- Configuring and managing procurement and vendors in Dynamics 365 Supply Chain Management
- Working with Asset Management for Dynamics 365 Supply Chain Management
- Working with accounts receivable in Dynamics 365 Finance
- Configuring and managing sales, and customers in Dynamics 365 Supply Chain Management
- Setting up and working with landed cost in Dynamics 365 Supply Chain Management
- Configuring and working with transportation management in Dynamics 365 Supply Chain Management
- Using warehouse management in manufacturing in Dynamics 365 Supply Chain Management
- Master planning in Dynamics 365 Supply Chain Management
Step 3: Join Online Study Groups and Forums
Engaging with a community of fellow learners can significantly enhance your exam readiness. Look for Microsoft certification-focused forums, LinkedIn groups, Reddit communities, or specialized platforms like Tech Community and Dynamics User Group. These spaces allow you to exchange ideas, ask questions, clarify doubts, and gain insights from individuals who have already passed the MB-330 exam. Peer support can also keep you motivated and expose you to alternative learning strategies.
Step 4: Take the MB-330 Practice Exams
Practice tests are an invaluable part of effective exam preparation. They not only help you assess your knowledge and identify weak areas but also familiarize you with the format and time constraints of the actual exam. Choose reputable practice test providers or use Microsoft’s official practice assessments if available. Aim to simulate real exam conditions to build confidence and improve your time management. After each practice test, review the explanations thoroughly to strengthen your understanding of incorrect answers.
Step 5: Reinforce Learning Through Hands-On Experience
Practical experience with Dynamics 365 Supply Chain Management is essential. Set up a trial environment or use Microsoft’s virtual labs to experiment with key features and processes like inventory tracking, procurement flows, warehouse configurations, and more. Applying theoretical knowledge in a real-world setting enhances retention and prepares you for scenario-based exam questions.
Step 6: Final Review and Exam Strategy
As your exam date approaches, revisit all core topics, review your notes, and retake selected practice questions. Focus on areas where you previously struggled. Make sure you’re also familiar with how the exam will be delivered—whether online or at a test center—and understand the rules and technical requirements. On the exam day, manage your time wisely and read each question carefully before answering.