Posts Tagged ‘axapta’

Process Improvement Comes First

Thursday, June 24th, 2010

By: Donald Clark CFPIM, CSCP

Companies around the world implement ERP systems for a wide variety of reasons: some to eliminate manual efforts, some to run their businesses in an integrated environment, some for regulatory reasons, and on and on. I think that if you ask many people why they undertake an ERP implementation, you might get an answer like “So we can improve”.

True as it is that an integrated ERP system can help a company gain efficiencies, it seems like that improvement sought is not always clearly understood or realized.

There is an old saying that goes something like this: “When you automate a bad process, you can now produce junk at the speed of light”. I do not remember who originally said it and the first time I heard it, it was stated more colorfully. The point needs to be well taken though. (more…)

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Microsoft Dynamics AX 2009 Food and Beverage Solution

Tuesday, March 23rd, 2010

Adapting standard ERP applications to the demanding needs of food and beverage producers and distributors is usually quite a chore. Work-around processes, add-in modules and continued reliance on spreadsheets are the orders of the day.

Microsoft has changed all of that through the introduction of its Food and Beverage Solution for Dynamics AX 2009. This product delivers the functionality food and beverage producers need to run their businesses effectively.

Here is the product fact sheet – don’t worry because it is not long.

Dynamics AX 2009 Food and Beverage Solution

Take some time to find out more about how the Food and Beverage Solution for Dynamics AX 2009 can help your business improve. Contact our California office at 888-222-8827 if you would like more information or if you would like to see a no-charge demonstration of this product.

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Dynamics AX 2009 Technology Enables User Experience Customization

Monday, October 5th, 2009

Dynamics AX 2009’ technology provides the capability for users to modify screens easily in Dynamics AX 2009 to meet their requirements and make their jobs easier to perform and data entry much more efficient.

Here is a screenshot of a standard Dynamics AX 2009 customer record screen, showing the general tab:

AX Morphx_2

The user may find that many of the fields are not needed in this form and that navigating between the needed fields is time-consuming.

This is not a problem because Dynamics AX 2009’s technology makes is a simple matter to change the look of this form (and any other forms) to meet the user’s needs.

The user can right click on an unneeded field, or field group, and one of the options includes “hide” as shown below. Now the user can go through the form and hide any fields or groups that the user does not need.

AX Morphx_1

Here is the same form, after the user has spent some time re-organizing it:

AX Morphx_3

Notice that numerous fields been hidden and that the landscape that the hidden fields used to take up has been automatically rearranged as well. By the way, this change took less than 2 minutes to make. Now the user only sees what needs to be seen, thus speeding up data entry.

Keep in mind that access to this functionality is permissions-controlled and that changes made can be done for individual users or system wide.

Contact us through our website or by calling 888-222-8827 to learn how Dynamics AX 2009’s technology can help to make the user experience more efficient and productive. Ask us also about other features and benefits that Dynamics AX 2009 delivers.

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Dynamics AX 2009 Audit Trails Enable Tight Control

Thursday, September 24th, 2009

Companies often times experience the need to figure out what changed in one of their records, who changed it and when. This can be a laborious, even impossible, task in many systems. Dynamics AX 2009 , through its audit trail capability, enables companies to automatically track changes made in the system and quickly identify who did it and when.

Setting up the audit trails is straightforward. The company simply needs to determine which records – item master, general ledger, sales order, etc., to track in the database log. Then it is a matter of deciding what types of changes to track – additions, deletions, numerical changes – and the company is all setup and ready to track.

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Dynamics AX 2009 Workflows Automate Business Processes

Thursday, September 17th, 2009

Microsoft Dynamics AX 2009 features a powerful workflow capability that allows companies to mirror their business processes in the system and then automate those processes.

Here are a few examples of workflow templates that come with Dynamics AX (Formerlly Axapta) 2009 and how you can use them to automate and control your processes.

Purchase Requisition Approval

Tom works in the quality department of his company and needs a new test instrument. His user role in Dynamics AX 2009 does not allow him to create purchase orders but he can create requisitions. So, he creates a requisition for the test instrument that he needs. (more…)

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