ERP software: Microsoft Dynamics AX for industrial distributors
Microsoft Dynamics AX for industrial distributors enables your people to make your organization more efficient by integrating your business and financial systems with sales, warehouse operations, suppliers, and customers.
It can help you:
| • | Drive down the cost of distribution by removing wasted activities in your warehouse. |
| • | Improve customer service by integrating specific customer requests into the business software. |
| • | Accurately track shipping and delivery of product by integrating automatic data collection (ADC) functionality with your enterprise resource planning (ERP). |
| • | Brow sales with powerful customer service capabilities and create transparency into your supply chain. |
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Supply and demand chain transparency with distribution ERP software
Synchronize demand data from customers with supplier product availability. Utilizing demand data to more effectively forecast need and schedule orders is critical to your bottom line. By utilizing familiar desktop tools, your people will be ready to make fast and accurate decisions based on changes in demand or disruptions in supply.
Advanced supply chain management
Automate inventory control and warehouse processes to help move goods efficiently between branches and to customers. Be better equipped to negotiate with suppliers and customers about product costs, timing, and placement.
Complete integration
Automatically integrate customer demand generated by customer relationship management (CRM) activities into inventory reordering, finance, shipping, and billing. Utilize Automatic Data Collection (ADC) to keep inventory and accounting systems up to date with little manual interaction.
Improve operational efficiency
Streamline warehouse operations by removing wasted efforts. Tightly and automatically integrate product receiving and delivery with integrated back-end financial systems. Execute contracts effectively to reduce the time needed to procure stock and ship products.
Control your processes from start to finish
Track items from the time products are purchased out of the warehouse to the time of delivery with lot and location control. Retrieve data easily to respond to recall notices or queries about how the item was engineered and where it may currently be in use.
Gain a positive ROI
Because 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. With support by a wizard-based configuration and system setup tool, Microsoft Dynamics AX solutions have been shown to significantly reduce implementation times resulting in a lower total cost of ownership for customers.*
*Nucleus Research, Inc. The Real ROI from Axapta, Research Note E116, October 2004
Features overview
Total supply chain visibility | Gain visibility and monitoring ability across the extended supply chain and heterogeneous systems and underlying technologies. Scorecards and key performance indicators (KPI) tracking tools improve the quality and accessibility of information. |
RFID support | Standards-based radio frequency identification (RFID) infrastructure platform provides automation and business process transformation. Business applications connect seamlessly to this RFID infrastructure. |
Integration with warehouse | Integration between corporate financial systems and warehouse management systems allows for effective planning and execution and hub and spoke enablement. |
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. |
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 CRM, as your business grows. Customize your solution to meet increasing customer demands for quality, safety, and performance. |
Next steps
Request more information about how Microsoft Dynamics AX can meet your organization's needs.
