Microsoft Dynamics AX for automotive
Updated: April 18, 2007
Synchronize demand with supply on a weekly, daily, and often hourly basis by opening up the visibility to supply and demand. Deliver the transparency needed into inventory, product availability, and demand while helping to lower costs by supporting lean implementations. Enable your people to make faster and better decisions on how to react to the ever-changing market by providing real time, industry specific key performance indicators (KPIs). Microsoft Dynamics AX for Automotive can also help your people to efficiently track and trace products to support government regulations such as the Transportation Recall Enhancement, Accountability, and Documentation (TREAD) Act.
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Supply and demand chain transparency
Synchronize demand data with supplier and production availability. Utilizing this data to more effectively forecast need and schedule production is critical to your bottom line. By using familiar desktop tools, your people will be ready to make fast and accurate decisions based on changes in demand or disruptions in supply.
Support multiple release accounting styles
Enable multiple release accounting styles to integrate and support many different original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) and suppliers. By integrating shipping information directly to your accounting software your people will be able to lower costs and improve customer service.
Real time production scheduling
Support of a "pull" system by your software can make or break its success. Microsoft Dynamics AX allows you to set up powerful pull methodology and support it with real time notifications of production or demand changes, therefore enabling your people to react quickly and keep costs low.
Lean manufacturing enablement
Saying you are going to be lean is one thing however, implementing lean processes is another. Staying lean for the long haul requires software that supports your lean business processes and makes it easy for your people to work with the system, not around it. Microsoft Dynamics AX directly supports the processes and practices required to embed "lean" into everyone’s daily routine.
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 assemble 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 automotive 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.
Control your processes from start to finish
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 engineered and where it is currently in use.
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
Lean manufacturing support | Reduce waste and produce more efficiently throughout all aspects of your manufacturing process. |
Just in time (JIT) capabilities | Manage production, schedule shop floor activity, and track order progress efficiently for just in time (JIT) delivery. |
Release accounting capabilities | Produce blanket orders using automotive specific accounting techniques. These include cumulative order quantities instead of individual shipment quantities and tight integration into the advance ship notice (ASN) and electronic data interchange (EDI) requirements. |
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. Enhance product flexibility and give customers a range of product options by configuring build-to-order items easily and effectively. |
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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