Microsoft Dynamics AX for Manufacturers

Designed for managing discrete, process and lean manufacturing

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As a manufacturer today, you face a challenging and opportunity-rich environment. You must navigate changing demand patterns, manage global complexity and meet growing sustainability and compliance requirements. To do so, your people need simple, powerful manufacturing solutions that can help them with:

Managing global complexity

  • Off-shoring and on-shoring strategies

  • Managing global supply and demand

  • Meeting new opportunities quickly

  • Incorporating mergers and acquisitions

Facilitating compliance

  • Tracking and traceability

  • Safety and environmental regulations

  • Country-specific tax and employment rules

Upgrading legacy systems

  • Unstructured data

  • Limited insight into operations

  • Lack of information to drive decision-making

  • Organisations spread across multiple geographies

Responding to rapidly changing supply and demand

  • Social media-driven consumers

  • Shortened product lifecycles

  • Faster, more immediate feedback and customer service

  • Need to protect privacy

Why choose Microsoft Dynamics AX for the manufacturing industry?

Microsoft Dynamics AX offers a powerful, agile, simple solution that enables manufacturing organisations to run and continuously improve your own unique mix of discrete, process and lean processes, across multiple sites and geographies, on a single unified platform.

Microsoft Dynamics AX is:

Powerful: Purpose-built for the manufacturing industry solution to meet the specific needs of your business

  • Improve control across make-to-order, make-to-stock and other product processes.

  • Provide ad hoc, self-service business intelligence and reporting for key manufacturing operations, including pre-built reports from Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services.

Agile: Helps you respond to changing conditions, correct capacity imbalances and track sustainability

  • Configure processes with a graphical workflow editor that helps you identify inefficiencies and optimise performance.

  • Track waste, water usage, energy consumption, carbon footprint and related costs with the Environmental Sustainability Dashboard.

Simple: Provides a familiar user experience makes it easy to find, use and share information

  • Quick ramp-up for users of all generations with Kanban boards and other visualisation tools, and touch-based screens for shop floor workers.

  • Simplify basic supply chain collaboration with Microsoft SharePoint portals for vendors and customers.

Learn more:

Watch a video from the Hannover Messe 2011 conference showing the powerful manufacturing capabilities in Microsoft Dynamics AXDownload the fact sheet: What’s new in Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 (PDF, 1.24 MB)Find a partner with Microsoft Dynamics AX manufacturing expertise in the Microsoft Dynamics Marketplace

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Resources

Fact sheet: Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 for Manufacturing Organisations (PDF, 1.18 MB)Fact sheet: What’s New in Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 (PDF, 1.24 MB)White paper: Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 – A new generation in ERP (PDF, 739 KB)Blog: Inside Microsoft Dynamics AXMagazine: PrimeMore resources

In the news

September 2011: Microsoft Dynamics AX helps Team Lotus growAugust 2011: IT supports lean thinkingJune 2011: Talley
Group selects Microsoft Dynamics AX June 2011: Taking advantage of CRMJune 2011: Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 makes play for high-end ERP

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Hydra-Power Systems

85 employees
Automotive and industrial manufacturing

“With Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012, it’s very easy to scale horizontally or vertically to meet the challenge of whichever requirements the business presents. The solution is so stable and flexible that IT almost becomes invisible.”

Bob Jablonski
Operations Manager, Hydra-Power Systems

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Met-Pro Corporation

350 employees
Industrial equipment and machinery manufacturing

“We want to take this company to $200, $300, $400 million a year in revenue, and to do that, we need a very good ERP solution. With Microsoft Dynamics AX, we have that. “

Raymond De Hont
Chairman, CEO and President, Met-Pro

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