Supply Chain Management
Microsoft Dynamics™ AX uses the Internet to manage your supply chain and help you connect your suppliers and customers.
Key features include:
- Trade
- Enterprise Portal
- Commerce Gateway
Trade
The Trade module automates the entire sales process. When you enter sales orders, the system automatically checks credit limits, customer account information, and inventory levels so you can give your customers real-time information. You can print, fax, e-mail, or publish order confirmations on the Web using the Microsoft Dynamics™ AX Enterprise Portal.
You can also provide customers with flexible invoicing options, keep track of backorders, and manage returned items.
The Trade module allows you to:
- Initiate purchase orders from production orders, sales orders, or inventory coverage rules
- Generate a price calculation in real-time for increased customer service
- Compare cost prices against revenue
- Automatically convert purchase units into inventory handling units, or convert inventory handling units into sales units
- Create credit notes from invoice journals
- Get a notification of backorders when receiving goods, and follow-up on purchase backorders
- Print backorder information on delivery documentation and invoices
- You can automatically substitute unavailable items with alternate items
- Cost price principles: FIFO, LIFO, standard cost price, and weighted average
- Easy reconciliation of inventory values versus ledger transactions for revision purposes
- Add miscellaneous charges to item cost prices
- Use tag counting and transfer to counting journal
- Launch e-mails for confirming orders from within Microsoft Dynamics™ AX
Enterprise Portal
Microsoft Dynamics™ AX Enterprise Portal enables customers, vendors, business partners and employees to have web-based access to your ERP system via specifically defined roles.
The Enterprise Portal platform offers the following functionality:
- Security
- Designed for little or no user training
- Access via intranet, extranet, web portal or online communities
- Real time access to ERP functionality and data
- Customizable
- Rapid deployment via wizard
- Multiple language / currency
- Personalization
The Enterprise Portal offers the following standard roles:
- Sales Representative
- Employee
- Consultant
- Customer
- Vendor
A “role” is simply a collection of relevant functionality that may be customized or personalized. The Enterprise Portal also provides a range of content management capabilities including:
- Flexible definition of topics
- Subscription
- Online editing and publishing of articles
- Administration of topics
- Moderation support
- Attachment of documents
- Discussion forums
Commerce Gateway
The Commerce Gateway module facilitates electronic commerce with Microsoft Dynamics™ AX. The module offers the following capabilities:
- Trading partner management
- Business process integration
- Automated document interchange
- Content based routing
- Digital certificates
- Management and analysis tools
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