Exam MB6-870:

Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 Trade and Logistics

Published:	August 29, 2011
Language(s):	English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Spanish, Chinese (Simplified)
Audience(s):	Information Workers
Technology:	Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012
Type:	Proctored Exam

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Overview

Preparing for an Exam

This certification exam measures your ability to understand and articulate how to use, maintain, and support Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 trade and logistics functionality including managing the supply chain foundation, managing distribution and trade, and managing BOMs.

Exam Topics Covered

The following list includes the topic areas covered on this exam.

Managing the Supply Chain Foundation
Managing Distribution and Trade
Managing Bills of Materials

Audience Profile

This exam is intended for individuals who are accountable for the typical daily procedures required to effectively use Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 trade and logistics functionality. This audience typically includes product designers, store managers, sales and purchase managers, salespeople, purchasers, and other people responsible for bill of materials (BOM) setup and administration, trade and logistics, inventory and warehouse management, and product information management.

Additional Skills Recommended:

General working knowledge of purchase and inbound operations, sales and outbound operations, and inventory management. Working knowledge of Windows 7 and Microsoft Office 2010.

Note This preparation guide is subject to change at any time without prior notice and at the sole discretion of Microsoft. Microsoft exams might include adaptive testing technology and simulation items. Microsoft does not identify the format in which exams are presented. Please use this preparation guide to prepare for the exam, regardless of its format.

Skills Measured

Skills Being MeasuredThis exam measures your ability to accomplish the technical tasks listed below.The percentages indicate the relative weight of each major topic area on the exam.The higher the percentage, the more questions you are likely to see on that content area on the exam.

The information after “This objective may include but is not limited to” is intended to further define or scope the objective by describing the types of skills and topics that may be tested for the objective. However, it is not an exhaustive list of skills and topics that could be included on the exam for a given skill area. You may be tested on other skills and topics related to the objective that are not explicitly listed here.

Managing the Supply Chain Foundation (38 percent)

Managing product information.

This topic may include: supply chain logistics; defining products; modeling configurable products; authorizing product setup in a legal entity; finalizing product setup in a legal entity; defining products as not stocked

Setting up inventory management.

This topic may include: item types; item groups; item model groups; storage and tracking dimension groups; warehouse management; inventory parameters; defining inventory policies

Managing purchase orders.

This topic may include: working with purchase orders; purchase order types; setting up account payable purchase parameters; purchasing not-stocked items; shipping to multiple addresses; managing delivery schedules; change management; processing purchase orders; generating a receipts list; generating a product receipt

Managing serial and batch numbers.

This topic may include: handling storage and tracking dimensions; manual allocation; automatic allocation; tracing

Managing sales orders.

This topic may include: working with sales orders; sales order types; sales parameters; sales orders for not-stocked items; shipping to multiple addresses; using enhanced delivery date control; managing delivery schedules; managing available ship dates and receipt dates; order entry deadlines; direct delivery; generating a sales order confirmation; generating a sales order picking list; processing a picking list registration; processing a sales order packing slip; shipping carrier interfaces

Managing quality and quarantine.

This topic may include: setting up quality management basics; setting up automatic quality order generation; creating a manual quality order; working with a non-conformance; managing quality reports and certificates; setup parameters for quarantine warehouses; managing item quarantines; managing inventory transactions on quarantined items; item dimension–based quality checks; automatic initiation of quality orders when goods are registered

Managing inventory journals and reports.

This topic may include: setting up inventory journals; managing inventory adjustment and movement journals; transfer journals; BOM journals; counting journals; creating a journal-specific setup; tag-counting journals; ABC inventory classification; inventory reports; forecasting reports; inventory blocking

Managing Distribution and Trade (31 percent)

Managing over/under delivery and charges.

This topic may include: over/under delivery setup and transactions; methods of adding a charge; price settings; charge codes; manual charges; automatic charges; landed cost charges; adding charges to a purchase order invoice; allocating charges; maximum approval limits

Managing customer and vendor agreements.

This topic may include: activating trade agreements; setting up trade agreements; trade agreement parameters; trade agreement policies; supplementary items; managing purchase and sales agreements

Managing item arrival and registration.

This topic may include: setting up item registration; using the arrival overview form; managing not-stocked item arrivals

Managing sales quotations.

This topic may include: setting up sales quotations; working with quotations; managing additional sales quotation features

Managing item reservations.

This topic may include: reservations, dimensions, and transactions; manual and automatic reservations; selection of lots; explosion reservations; view reservations; blocking reservations; lock reservations; canceling reservations; batch reservations; picking reserved items

Picking sales orders.

This topic may include: enabling sales order picking and setup; releasing sales order picking; managing picking operations

Managing returns.

This topic may include: setting up customer returns; creating a return order; managing item arrival and receipt registration; managing quarantine orders; managing replacement orders; handling not-stocked item returns; creating vendor returns; creating vendor returns for serialized items

Managing commissions.

This topic may include: setting up a commission; viewing commission transactions; managing commission transactions for returned items

Managing transfer orders.

This topic may include: setting up transfer orders; using the transfer order form; selecting items for a transfer order; shipping and receiving a transfer order; managing goods in transit

Managing Bills of Materials (31 percent)

Creating simple BOMs.

This topic may include: using the BOM form; working with BOMs in the BOM Designer; approving and activating BOMs

Creating versioned BOMs with versions.

This topic may include: creating BOMs by using the Released Products form; activating multiple BOM versions; copying BOM versions; changing BOM versions; creating BOMs with a version from the BOM form; creating BOMs with versions in the BOM Designer; managing quantity-dependent BOMs; working with validity dates and sub-BOMs on component lines

Working with BOM and product configurations.

This topic may include: managing BOM configurations; managing product configurations

Working with BOM calculations.

This topic may include: managing the BOM calculation structure; managing cost groups, profit settings, and calculation groups; viewing costing versions and BOM calculations; cost and sales price calculations; managing explosion mode and BOM stop explosion

Managing sales orders and BOMs.

This topic may include: configurable BOMs and sales orders; viewing BOMs in a sales order; exploding a BOM from a sales order; calculating a BOM from a sales order

Managing scrap and measurement.

This topic may include: BOM scrap; BOM measurement

Managing reports and other BOM functionality.

This topic may include: reporting a BOM as finished; standard BOM reports; managing other BOM functionality

Preparation Materials

Preparation Tools and ResourcesTo help you prepare for this exam, Microsoft Learning recommends that you have hands-on experience with the product and that you use the following training resources. These training resources do not necessarily cover all of the topics listed in the "Skills Measured" tab.

Learning Plans and Classroom Training

Microsoft E-Learning

80306AE: Distribution and Trade in Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 (9 Hours)
80305AE: Supply Chain Foundation in Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 (7 Hours)
80339AE: Bill of Materials in Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 (7 Hours)

Microsoft Press Books There are no Microsoft Press books currently available.

Practice Tests There are no practice tests currently available.

Microsoft Online Resources

General Ledger, Accounts Receivable, Accounts Payable, Inventory Management, Master Planning, Production and Basic Online Help available from within the Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 product.

80308: Procurement in Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012

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