Microsoft Dynamics AX for food and beverage manufacturers
Microsoft Dynamics AX for helps your people to help keep your products safe, develop more successful new products, and meet retailer demands.
Benefits include:
| • | Improve food safety by tracking products from the farm to the retail shelf—so if products were to be recalled, you could execute the recall process quickly and efficiently. |
| • | Develop new products and get them to market more quickly by integrating product development with manufacturing and sales. |
| • | Decrease stock-outs on retailer shelves by having greater visibility into demand. |
| • | Sell products based on units or catch weights, with complete integration into your financial, inventory, and billing systems. |
| • | Integrate with radio frequency identification (RFID) and manage inventory effectively. |
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Food safety
Track items from the time of materials purchase to the time of production and sale with lot and location control. Retrieve data easily to respond to recall notices or queries about how the item was made and where it may currently be in use.
Advanced supply chain management
Automate inventory control and warehouse processes to help move goods efficiently to distribution centers and stores. Be better equipped to negotiate with retailers about product costs, timing, and product placement.
Campaign management
Track sales and inventory based on key performance indicators (KPIs). Calculate delivery dates for complex orders using a mix of cross-docking, internal movement, and vendor-ordering activities. Automatically calculate delivery dates based on predefined trade parameters.
Improve operational efficiency
Streamline operations on the shop floor and beyond—including research and development, administration, product life-cycle management, and customer service—by automating processes and integrating project, customer, and financial information. Bid and execute contracts effectively to reduce the time needed to procure materials and manufacture or package products. By streamlining product development, manufacturing, sales, customer service, and delivery, your business can improve design, control costs, monitor quality, and serve customers effectively.
Support global design teams
Shorten time to market for new product innovations by integrating processes and managing programs effectively. By enabling global collaboration of design, integrating innovation into the manufacturing process, and collaborating effectively with suppliers, partners, and customers, your people can deliver lower-cost products more quickly and enhance customer satisfaction.
Gain a positive ROI
Because Industrial Equipment Manufacturing for Microsoft Dynamics AX is built on proven, reliable Microsoft technologies and comes with one-stop support from Microsoft Business Solutions Support Services, your business can gain a positive return on your investment. And because they are supported by a wizard-based configuration and system setup tool, Microsoft Dynamics AX solutions have been shown to significantly reduce implementation times for a lower total cost of ownership for customers.*
*Nucleus Research, Inc. The Real ROI from Axapta, Research Note E116, October 2004
Features overview
Campaign management | Track results continuously and automate tasks and processes as you manage the marketing and sales efforts driven by your customer campaigns. |
RFID support | Achieve compliance with important supply chain relationships and take advantage of improved efficiency, visibility, and exception handling brought about by RFID enablement and support. |
Lot and location tracking | Being able to trace product back to its origin is of vital importance. These vital tracking features allow you to track the origins of inventory effectively and correct inconsistencies and exceptions affecting your operations. |
Product life-cycle management (PLM) system | Implement a complete product life-cycle management (PLM) system to manage items from design through assembly, test, and shipment. |
Available to promise (ATP) capabilities | Manage the capacity and availability of materials with available to promise (ATP) capabilities that provide accurate inventory, scheduling, and delivery information throughout the supply chain. |
Integration with familiar technology | Maximize your technology investment by taking advantage of the close integration Microsoft Dynamics AX has with familiar, powerful Microsoft products such as Microsoft SQL Server 2000, Microsoft Internet Information Services 6.0, the Microsoft Office system, and the Microsoft Office Outlook 2003 messaging client. |
Graphical planning engine | A specialized planning engine lets you use drag-and-drop functionality to graphically view the impact of changes on your processes, allowing you to evaluate several what-if scenarios and determine an effective course of action. |
Integration with PDM, CAD, and ECO systems | Create engineering design documents quickly and accurately with built-in integration between product data management (PDM) systems and computer-aided design (CAD) systems. Engineering change order (ECO) functionality helps you quickly adjust to new specifications and minimize rework for projects already in process. |
Flexible analysis and reporting capabilities | Integrated information in both summary and detailed views can help you improve decision-making, target the most attractive markets, and reduce risk. |
Multi-country capabilities and CRM | Add functionality, such as multi-country capabilities or customer relationship management (CRM), as your business grows. Customize your solution to meet increasing customer demands for quality, safety, and performance. |
Next steps
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