Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 Is Coming on September 8 … Be the First to See It.
The world is risky enough—if your company is considering a new ERP system, consider the safest bet on the market: Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012.
Join us live on September 8 and see the new safe and powerful ERP system for discrete and process manufacturing and distribution companies in one of these cities: Minneapolis, Dallas, Irvine, Portland, Charlotte, Grand Rapids or Cincinnati. We’ll also hold launch events in Atlanta on September 29 and Boston on October 4.
Each launch event will be held at the local Microsoft office in each city, and will feature Dynamics AX 2012 highlights from Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer, insights from Gartner Group ERP Analyst Nigel Montgomery, plus the opportunity to see AX 2012 in action from both a high level and industry-specific perspective.
All attendees will be able to take advantage of special Dynamics AX 2012 offers from event sponsors Sunrise Consulting and Edgewater Fullscope. Each attendee will also be registered to win free Xbox Kinect system.
If you have any business manufacturing processes that are causing you enough pain to consider looking a new enterprise resource planning system within the next two years, come see what is in Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 and how it may be able to help make your job easier and your company more profitable.
Visit http://bit.ly/axlaunch to learn more or register.
AX Technical Tip #5: Alerts
June 2, 2011
When creating an Alert in Microsoft Dynamics AX ERP software, the field where you initially create the Alert affects your options when defining the Alert. For example, if you start defining the Alert on a date field, the options displayed are related to dates: “has been postponed until at the earliest,” “is set to an earlier date,” and “is due.” For numeric fields, available options include: “has decreased,” “has increased above,” and “has decreased below.” Alphanumeric fields options are “record has been created,” “record has been deleted,” “has changed,” and “is set to.”
Why deep industry functionality is important for chemical, food and beverage and pharmaceutical companies
While the process manufacturing market is typically categorized as large and mature, it remains one of the most competitive and dynamic segments of manufacturing. In today’s frenetic global markets, process manufacturers must evolve to meet the challenges of changing market demands, the increasing commoditization of products, and the volatility of pricing in energy and raw materials.
Industry analysts define process manufacturing as in the middle of a transformation in which established systems with deep functionality on older technology are being displaced by more sophisticated and agile systems. A modernization is clearly underway.
The stakes have never been higher for process manufacturers as they replace or upgrade their systems: they need to boost quality, efficiency, safety, and regulatory compliance for maximum productivity and process control. For the major process segments including chemicals, pharmaceuticals, food processing, pulp and paper, cosmetics and metals (industries whose business model is typically high volume, low margin), the ability to improve margins and to cost product and inventory based on the active ingredients central to their recipes are key to maintaining and improving competitive vitality.
Microsoft Dynamics AX is a leading ERP system for process manufacturers that offers broad and robust functionality, and it delivers low TCO through integration with other Microsoft products and technologies.
A new offering from Fullscope takes industry functionality to a deeper level. New Process Accelerators for Microsoft Dynamics AX provides powerful and detailed capabilities to help food and beverage, chemical and pharmaceutical manufacturers achieve the following:
- Manage active ingredients throughout their operations by enabling them to buy raw materials and cost finished goods more precisely by potency.
- Scale formulas up or down, automatically, by the identification of potent ingredients.
- Track lot inheritance.
- Define product sequencing, which is evaluated based on multiple characteristics, to reduce downtime and changeover costs in the production schedule.
Each Process Accelerator has been designed to address complex processes through an easy interface to automate activities as much as possible to reduce error. Each one also provides flexibility for a manufacturer’s procurement, design, and regulatory compliance personnel so that they can easily value their inventory of materials for potency-dependent products, address factors that influence production, and trace with precision what was used in the production process. The idea is to automate processes for production and traceability as much as possible.
The Fullscope Process Accelerators for each industry integrate with the Process Industry layer of Microsoft Dynamics AX and provides new functionality concentrated in three basic areas:
- Potency, including automated batch balancing for raw materials and potency-based purchase pricing
- Lot genealogy
- Product sequencing
This article uses the word “potency,” but some process industries may use the terms assay, concentration, or even others. The underlying technology in the Process Accelerator supports these potency-like types of requirements found across the chemical, food and beverage and pharmaceutical industries.
Coming next month: The Power of Potency
AX Technical Tip#3: Saved Filter Form
March 10, 2011
Microsoft Dynamics AX ERP lets users easily create a saved filter on a form that can be recalled and used multiple times. To begin, open the form that you want to filter and press Control F3 to open the Advanced Filter form. Add or modify the filter criteria. If a desired filter field isn’t available, click the add button and specify another table and field filter. Once the filter criteria is correct, click modify, select save as, give the saved filter a name and click OK.
To retrieve the saved query, press Control F3 on the form and click the drop down list box on Select Query and select the saved query. Click OK to apply.
AX Technical Tip #2: Record Level Security
February 9, 2011
Designed for Microsoft Dynamics AX users, each month Fullscope publishes a short technical tip to for greater insight into this powerful ERP system.
Technical Tip#2: Record Level Security
Microsoft Dynamics AX lets users easily manage screen/table and report filters through record level security. Use this feature to filter screen and report data that you specifically design by user group.
To begin, open the Record Level Security screen (in the Administration module), and choose the appropriate user group. Click on the “new” button and the Record Level Security wizard will walk you through the remaining setup. This feature allows you to apply specific queries to data tables resulting in data security and an enhanced end user experience where the user doesn’t have to filter through irrelevant data. The table queries also apply to report data, which allows you to filter down to critical data.
AX Technical Tip #1: Report Manager
January 11, 2011
Designed for Microsoft Dynamics AX users, each month Fullscope will publish a short technical tip to for greater insight into this powerful ERP system.
Technical Tip#1: Report Manager
Did you know there is a property in Report Manager that allows you to enter a Report Builder Custom Launch URL string which enables you to run the most recent version of Report Builder that your SQL Server platform supports? SQL Server 2008 supports Report Builder 2.0 and SQL Server 2008 RC2 supports Report Builder 3.0.
To begin, start the Report Manager and on the home screen, select site settings (top right). In the general tab, change the custom report builder launch URL to /ReportBuilder/ReportBuilder_2_0_0_0.application, and select apply.
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