Manufacturing

Reduce time to market and respond quickly to changing customer demands with Production in Microsoft Dynamics AX. Real-time insight into business and supply chain information- including inventory, warehouse, and production - helps you optimise production flow by planning effectively, maximizing resource utilization, driving accurate delivery performance, and streamlining business processes.

Production in Microsoft Dynamics AX gives you real-time insight into your manufacturing processes to help increase both your production efficiency and profitability, while helping to reduce your overall costs.

Product Builder in Microsoft Dynamics AX simplifies and streamlines the process of ordering, planning and producing customized products, helping you to win more orders and increase customer loyalty.

Shop Floor Control in Microsoft Dynamics AX automates the collection of employee time and attendance information, project and production data, giving you accurate and detailed insight into your production environment.

Lean Manufacturing for Microsoft Dynamics AX has been designed specifically to help manufacturing organisations compete today by supporting theimplementation of lean manufacturing strategies. It’s an integrated business management solution that also delivers the specific functionality that can empower your people to achieve demand-driven, flow production.

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Functionality includes:

• Finite and infinite capacity and material planning
• Job scheduling and sequencing
• Resource Management
• Shop Floor Management
• Work Order Management with job costing
• Product configuration
• Quality Management
• Lean Manufacturing.

Benefits Include:

• Manage production in a demand driven environment.
  View real-time, integrated work in progress (WIP) with actual costs; make adjustments to avoid potential delays or cost overruns; and streamline inventory management based on demand and forecasting.
  
  
• Anticipate and reduce bottlenecks.
  Gain tight control over every aspect of the production floor with bottleneck scheduling. Quickly view processes and work utilization as a whole with a Gantt chart and use drag-and-drop rescheduling to minimize delays.
  
  
• Gain deep insight across the supply chain.
  With visibility throughout the entire supply chain, you can streamline business processes, optimise resources, minimize lead times, and identify accurate delivery dates.
  
  
• Improve control of production processes.
  Define manufacturing resources, including machines, people, tools, and subcontractors, and allocate them to work centre groups. Tightly control schedules by using finite or infinite capacity scheduling for maximum flexibility.
  
  
• Microsoft Dynamics AX 2009 Production Brochure
• Microsoft Dynamics AX Production Brochure 2
• Microsoft Dynamics AX Shop Floor Brochure
• Microsoft Dynamics AX Product Builder Fact Sheet
• Microsoft Dynamics AX Master Planning Fact Sheet
• Microsoft Dynamics AX White Papers