Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 Manufacturing Highlights: Procurement and Sourcing, Financial, Compliance and Controls

We hope to highlight the value that Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 brings to manufacturers. This week we will focus on some features that can aid in procurement and sourcing, financial, compliance and controls.

 

 

Procurement and Sourcing

• Facilitate direct and indirect procurement of goods and services.

• Utilize self-service capabilities to empower employees to order day-to-day goods and services from searchable online catalogs.

• Help vendors operate more efficiently by enabling them to perform a variety of tasks online, such as updating profile data and catalog.

• Content, submitting invoices, and reviewing payments.

• Enhance buyer capability to support procurement policies and processes.

• Extend your procurement process with a cloud-based service facilitating the RFQ process (Sites Services).

 

Financial, Compliance and Controls

• Optimize financial operations with general ledger, bank management, fixed assets, accounts payable and receivable, cost accounting, budgetary control, intercompany accounting, and shared services support.

• Help ensure organizational compliance with laws, regulations, policies, and business rules, including internal controls through the

• Compliance Center. Take advantage of the Audit Workbench to define your organization’s policies and automate auditing processes.

• Use an Environmental Sustainability Dashboard to track energy use and carbon footprint.

 

If you have a question about Dynamics AX that you would like answered, please email us. Or visit the BWIR website for more information about the company.

 

What's New in AX 2012 R2: Procurement and Sourcing and Product Information Management

We hope to share some of the changes coming to AX 2012 R2. We will cover accounting to sales and everywhere in between. It is our job to put the value in AX.

Take time to discover the new changes in-store for AX 2012 R2 and stay ahead of the curve.

Procurement and sourcing

• Changes to Order management features


• Data partition added for the Order management upgrade


• Enhancements to the new vendor registration process


• Enhancements to the purchase order change management process


• Fulfillment of purchase requisition demand orchestrated by master planning


• Integration of sales agreements and return orders


• Product search on Employee Services site


• Sales auto charges based on tiers and modes of delivery in sales orders

Product information management

• Enhanced modeling capabilities in Product configurator


• Improvements made to the overview of production information, approval and calculation of worker registration on projection jobs, and worker absences


• Improvements to planning tools


• The Configuration form in Product configurator is easier to extend

 If you have a question about Dynamics AX that you would like answered, please email us. Or visit the BWIR website for more information about the company.