Supply Chain Execution - Microsoft Dynamics AX
Streamline and synchronize your supply chain and distribution processes, and seize global opportunities to stay ahead of the competition. Supply Chain Execution for Microsoft Dynamics AX helps companies overcome the challenges of ever-changing customer requirements, globalization, compliance initiatives, and multiple distribution channels. Go beyond traditional warehouse or business management solutions to maximize operational effectiveness, reduce costs, boost profitability, and build competitive advantage.
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Synchronize real-time product movement
Streamline receiving and shipping processes, and facilitate cross-docking or back-order shipments for a more efficient flow of goods.
Improve order fulfillment and accuracy
Base product placement on sales demand to help increase workforce efficiency, boost fulfillment rates, reduce cycle time, and eliminate user error and chargebacks. Support the requirements of leading retailers with built-in radio frequency identification (RFID) and electronic product code (EPC) technology.
Reduce inefficient processes and excess inventory
Improve inventory control and enhance in-stock positions. Analyze workflows to help eliminate redundancies and manual activities throughout the warehouse.
Plan and balance workload
Track and measure warehouse activities against baseline standards to help allocate resources, optimize workforce performance, and reduce labor costs. Integrated radio frequency (RF) technology helps employees stay connected in the warehouse or at a desktop. Automated workflows help prioritize work, increase productivity, and improve performance.
Facilitate compliance with industry standards
Meet customer and carrier requirements with product identification options, easy-to-generate load documentation, parcel manifesting support and online bill of lading and manifest information.
Reduce transportation costs
Standardize procurement processes, automate carrier assignments, and use tracking or tracing tools to integrate transportation management, reduce costs, and improve customer service.
Features
RF/RFID support | Use RF wireless devices or RFID systems to synchronize product movement, optimize labor resources, comply with demands of top retailers, and reduce paperwork. |
Integrated transportation management | Automate manual activities, such as carrier assignment and delivery confirmations, to reduce costs and speed order processing. Eliminate stand-alone parcel manifesting systems while ensuring compliance with industry standards for manifesting and bills of lading. Enhance product visibility with easy-to-use track and trace tools. |
Shipping load management | Build loads, schedule carriers, provide one-click confirmation for multiple orders, keep track of containers, and generate customer- and carrier-compliant shipping documentation. |
Cycle counting | Help eliminate physical inventories and increase inventory accuracy with real-time cycle counts that deliver immediate reconciliation and discrepancy resolution. Perform cycle counts whenever picking or other activities make it convenient. |
User-defined document types | Use familiar Microsoft Office Word templates that define printing options to increase user control, eliminate the need for extra programming, and ease implementation and support. |
Comprehensive transaction history | Track system events by user, activity, date, and time for real-time insight into distribution processes and user actions. |
Appointment scheduling | Schedule appointments for expected receipts to optimize receiving dock efficiency. |
Put-away location optimization | Implement best practice strategies, user-defined put-away criteria, or exception logic for guiding the selection of put-away locations to increase space utilization and eliminate human decision-making. |
Automated order release | Improve order fulfillment and accuracy, and automate manual functions. Release pick orders to the warehouse automatically or manage them according to specified fulfillment policies. |
Workflow integration | Define multiple order process flows to eliminate inefficient processes while ensuring critical processes are performed. |
Enhanced pick location selection | Base selection strategies on preconfigured best practices or user-defined criteria to increase picking productivity and eliminate human errors. |
Pick/pack operational support | Use sophisticated packing algorithms to predetermine shipping containers. Then, scan and pack. Help ensure order accuracy, automate manual activities, and allow for pick-to-ship container processes. Easily provide advance ship notice (ASN) information and track shipping container contents. |
Replenishment | Optimize storage and pick location assignments to increase storage utilization, boost picker productivity, and reduce unnecessary picker or inventory movement. |
Warehouse control center | An executive dashboard provides graphical representations of operational data to help you plan and balance workload in real time. Track key performance indicators, compare actual productivity with goals, and receive alerts of floor-level exceptions. |
Modular solution | Build a solution to meet the needs of your business, from RF data collection to full warehouse management. Add or modify functionality as your requirements change. |
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