Microsoft Dynamics AX is the complete ERP solution for enterprises that provides a purpose-built foundation across five industries, along with comprehensive, core ERP functionality for financial, human resources and operations management. It empowers your people to anticipate and embrace change so your business can thrive. All of this is packaged in a single global solution giving you rapid time to value.
Microsoft Dynamics AX is powerful, comprehensive ERP software that supports operational efficiency in all key functional areas, including:
- Financial management
- Business intelligence and reporting
- Sales and marketing
- Procurement and sourcing
- Supply chain management
- Project management and accounting
- Human capital management
- Global risk and compliance
- Environmental sustainability
- Country-specific capabilities
Powerful
- Gain more value faster with a single, comprehensive ERP solution that supports industry-specific and operational demands across your global enterprise.
- Multiple, purpose-built industry and operational capabilities in one solution
- Global solution that includes business management support for operations in 36 countries (country-specific functionality available in a staged rollout)
- Ad hoc reports and streamlined workflows with a Microsoft Dynamics RoleTailored user interface
Agile
Expand business opportunities, modify processes, and differentiate your business with comprehensive ERP software that provides unprecedented agility.
- Natural modeling to continuously plan, visualize, and change your processes
- Flexible deployment options (such as two-tier ERP) that can change as you grow
- Agile technology that makes it easy to change and differentiate your business
Simple
Drive user involvement and innovation with a business management solution that is simple to use, deploy, and manage—and deliver easy access to data and processes.
- Empower employees to innovate with quick access to information and business processes
- Integrated, self-service collaboration capabilities for employees, customers, suppliers, and partners
- Application life-cycle management to streamline IT processes from initial deployment through continuing change
Core Solutions
Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 raises the bar for delivering powerful ERP capabilities and supporting operational efficiency in many key functional areas. Microsoft Dynamics AX includes new capabilities such as supplier relationship management, case management, and the Audit Workbench, as well as important enhancements in the following domains: financials, Supply chain management, Procurement and sourcing, Project management and accounting, and compliance and internal controls.
Financials
- Quickly create unlimited, form-based financial dimensions that can be shared across legal entities for a complete business view, audit trail transparency, and detailed analyses.
- Transform budget information into precise, workflow-driven management tools with multiple, variable, and hierarchical budgetary controls that allow you to define how you want to manage expenditures and achieve greater control of the procurement process.
- Set up, view, and manage encumbrances, including purchase order commitments, in the general ledger, and manage workflow items with respect to year-end processing and encumbrances.
- Streamline the cash-to-collections process to save time, engage efficiently with customers, and improve cash flow.
- Simplify and help ensure accurate processing of requisitions, orders, invoices, and other key transactions by defining accounting distributions and viewing subledger journal entries before journalizing source documents.
- Improve accounts payable operational efficiency with new capabilities to match invoices, allocate charges, process and track purchase order prepayments, add lines to invoices, and more.
- Define and control the information you capture more precisely to achieve better insight into your business.
- Increase productivity and accuracy as you leverage architectural advances to share key financial data among legal entities.
- Sharply reduce time and effort for year-end closing with enhancements that include purchase order rollover and budget carry-forward options.
Supply chain management
- Easily convert a purchase order line or sales order into a delivery schedule and maintain total order discount eligibility even when multiple deliveries result.
- Support quality management with a new inventory-blocking feature that works manually or on an automated basis to enjoy greater flexibility and granularity in quality order specification, and more.
- Improve your ability to report the value of goods in transit between companies, using two new reports in Microsoft Dynamics AX.
Procurement and sourcing
- Manage direct and indirect procurement of goods and services using procurement and sourcing in Microsoft Dynamics AX.
- Empower workers to order day-to-day goods and services from searchable online catalogs. Help vendors operate more efficiently by enabling them to perform a variety of tasks online, such as updating profile data, requesting additional users, requesting that the scope of their offering be expanded, uploading catalog content, submitting invoices, reviewing payments, and more.
- Import, create, edit, stage, publish, and search catalogs of items for internal consumption on an internal shopping site. Or punch out directly to your vendor catalog.
- Create a virtual workplace where category managers can manage overall spending by category.
- Utilize requisition aggregation, work queue management, category management, and other procurement functionality through a procurement-based Role Center
- Establish a centralized procurement desk capability across your organization to support procurement policies and processes.
- Easily set up and maintain one or more different purchasing policies and apply them to different sets of requisitioners across the organization.
Project management and accounting
- View a summary as the project budget is created, compare against funding, and make corrections before submission.
- Create and manage projects in Enterprise Portal to enable remote access.
- Make time sheet entries more efficiently with enhanced time entry capabilities and user experiences from a web browser or the client application.
- Allocate and post revenue based on internal sales prices for workers, categories, and dimensions, enabling profitability monitoring by allocation area.
Industry Capabilities
Microsoft Dynamics AX is purpose-built for organizations in many industries. Combines industry-specific capabilities in one solution and makes them available to all customers, benefiting organizations that require capabilities for more than one industry.
Distribution
- Improve supply chain planning capabilities across your organization, using new views that display all intercompany supply and demand. In addition, planned intercompany demand is visible for upstream companies within the organization, and can be considered in master planning. Planning and management are also supported with a full view of intercompany order-pegging using a multilevel pegging form.
- Allow users to place orders in a more productive way with sales order process enhancements, allowing faster order entry by limiting the amount of information to be entered. This permits easier access to sales order header or line details as well as expert features, allowing users to modify default settings and customize
sales orders. - Take advantage of other features that include pricing enhancement to manage mass changes, smart rounding rules based on currency and amount, and translation of prices in multiple currencies based on a reference price list.
Manufacturing
- Utilize the flexibility of Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 to run process and discrete manufacturing models in a single solution. The mixed-mode capability also allows implementation of lean manufacturing practices in the way best suited for your company
- Take advantage of a new operations resource model to efficiently use resources at multiple locations. Schedule resources (vendors, people, machines, tools, or locations) to jobs and operations based on their capabilities (ability to perform a specific production-related activity). A scheduling engine will handle resource selection.
- Model and execute lean manufacturing on production flows to reduce delivery lead times, trim excess inventory between work centers, treat contractor labor as a service (not a BOM component), and support continuous improvement by using kanban boards, event kanbans, and kanban rules to view, plan, and run kanban jobs.
- Use the new constraint-based Product Configurator to efficiently create, maintain, and reuse product models, components, and attributes.
- Let shop floor workers use the touch-enabled job registration form to register time and quantities produced; use this functionality to let shop floor supervisors prioritize jobs and perform actions such as start/stop jobs.
Service Industries
- Strengthen proposal management, project quotation, and project budget control with complex work breakdown structures, milestone definitions, task assignments, and deliverable specification.
- Improve your ability to forecast, plan, and ultimately schedule the right resources onto projects at the right time and in the right place, matching individual skills and capabilities to service tasks and project goals.
- Take advantage of Workspace Collaboration in Microsoft SharePoint Server to increase project collaboration and foster application of best practice service-delivery methodologies. Build on that foundation to connect with service partners and clients in richer and more interactive ways.