Topic: ‘Dynamics AX’

When creating calendars to use in Dynamics AX, most users don’t want to spend a lot of time manipulating working days on each calendar especially when dealing with holidays and planned shut downs that affect the entire operation.

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Non-conformances in AX 2012 are used to report anything that may be an issue with a product.  But that also comes with the stipulation that any non-conformance that is created, must have a product associated with it as well as a quantity of that product specified.  When creating a non-conformance, the required information is a type, an item number, and a problem type.  Also, if the type is customer or vendor, those accounts must be specified as well. Read the rest of this entry »

For those of you out there who know and “love” Microsoft’s’ Product Builder (PB), there’s now a new alternative.
It does basically the same thing as PB, but it’s got a new name and a new look. Surprise! Surprise!
Yay! Here comes Product Configurator (PC), just when you thought that some things never change!
Just like PB, Microsoft says that you do not need developer skills to build a Configurator Model, but BEWARE! Read the rest of this entry »

The purpose of this week’s blog is to take a look into the return order process in ADAX.  The following process will illustrate how to issue a return to a customer starting from customer service handling the initial request all the way through shipping a replacement order back to the customer.  Please continue reading to see how see how the logistical flow works on the order, view the return documentation that is sent to your customer, and see how a replacement order pulls in the appropriate return order information.

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In early stages of most implementations, companies tend to try to keep things simple. With all that needs to be done in a new system implementation, sometimes the more complex subject matter gets pushed to “phase 2” or users are left to handle data and difficult situations some other way. Use of Coverage Groups in Master Planning is a good example of this.

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In AX 2012, most forms have at least one “factbox” on the right side of the form.  They will most often contain information pertaining to the highlighted record.  But often times, we would like to see other or more information in one of these boxes.  I’m going to use an example to explain a fairly straight forward way to create a new factbox (or “part”) that doesn’t require too much technical knowledge. Read the rest of this entry »

Continuing along with the Human Resources Series I’ve been writing the past few weeks, find the most recent post here, I wanted to briefly touch on the topic of terminations. AX 2012 has streamlined the process of “hire to retire” with this new release, adding an employee history dialog and reason codes. Keep reading to find out more.

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 AX 2012 & ADM (Advanced Discrete Manufacturing) contain functionality to optimize, engineer-to-order (ETO), make-to-order (MTO), configure-to-order (CTO) and assemble-to-order (ATO) business processes.  ADM utilizes standard functionality but adds critical components where concurrent engineering is required as well as project specific planning and analysis is required. Read the rest of this entry »

Fictional or not, the threat of transgressions being preserved on a permanent record was always effective in keeping grade schoolers in line. While making paper airplanes might not end up in your employment records, the sensitivity of the information is still high enough to warrant a complicated series of tables and relationships to insure the privacy of employees. This blog will aim to highlight some of these tables and how they interact with each other.

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The following blog discusses managing activities in AX 2012.  The activities used to be in the CRM module in 2009 and are now found in the Sales Marketing module in 2012.  Continue to read to learn more about activities and to take a look at them in AX 2012.

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