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Process Industries for Microsoft Dynamics AX

Process Industries for Microsoft Dynamics AX enterprise resource planning (ERP) software specifically addresses the needs of food and beverage, chemical, pharmaceutical, life sciences, primary metals and pulp and paper manufacturers. With all the functionality of the Microsoft Dynamics AX ERP solution, Process Industries also includes modules for process manufacturing, process distribution and total quality management. It can help improve operational efficiency by integrating sales, production, inventory, quality control, distribution, and customer service capabilities throughout the process manufacturing life cycle so you can better manage all the variables required to engineer and build products to custom specifications, optimize capacity, comply with regulatory demands, and drive continuous process improvement.

Process Industries for Microsoft Dynamic AX

Increase the speed and flexibility of your process manufacturing operations

Process Industries for Microsoft Dynamics AX, process manufacturing ERP software, supports a range of manufacturing processes, including make to order, make to stock, and mixed mode, or a hybrid environment incorporating both process and discrete operations with process manufacturing software. Your company can build a flexible solution that fits your needs by integrating production processes and implementing best practices that standardize operations and increase efficiency.

Increase connectivity and communication internally and with customers and trading partners

With streamlined processes your company can maintain high production levels and on-time deliveries by sharing real-time information among key departments and integrating critical production and quality control (QC) data into your buying, selling, and production decisions. Your sales and customer service employees can communicate effectively with customers by responding quickly to order status, certificate of analysis, and delivery queries. With up-to-date production information, your trading partners can better meet delivery dates or quickly alert you to changing market conditions.

Provide insight into production processes and costs to manage resources effectively

Gain valuable insight into production schedules, capacity loadings, shop floor activities, and production costs with Process Industries for Microsoft Dynamics AX, process manufacturing ERP software. View up-to-the-minute client, contract, and project management details for an accurate accounting of profitability. Manage co-products and by-products in your formulas or recipes centrally and always know the correct inventory status for any given item. By tracking items from cradle to grave, your company can implement effective recall procedures with complete forward and backward traceability of any material.

Respond quickly to changing market conditions or new opportunities

Process Industries for Microsoft Dynamics AX enterprise resource planning software enables you to tailor your production management system to meet the changing needs of your process operations. By modeling your production capabilities and providing accurate capacity planning and production costing, you can capitalize on new opportunities as they arise while complying with the legal, regulatory, and market requirements of individual markets and jurisdictions.

Features Overview

Benefit	Description
Fast RFQ development time	Shorten development time for requests for quotations (RFQs) and reduce risk by streamlining quoting and estimating processes.
Flexible planning and scheduling tools	Quickly adjust product mix to respond to changes in demand. Estimate the impact of different sales scenarios using what-if simulations. Schedule multiple package types within a single production run and consider recurring or rework products when scheduling. Deploy finite or infinite capacity and materials scheduling, backward or forward scheduling, detailed scheduling by hours and minutes, or scheduling by day.
Customizable item and dimensionality structure	Define multiple inventory dimensions and understand the dynamics of your stocking practices, including packaging codes, variations to the main item, lot management, and inventory status. Conduct comprehensive where-used analysis, including alternate formula and recipe tracking.
Variable inventory and order tracking	Monitor inventory using dual units of measure, to manage total weight as well as packaging units (catch weight calculations). Track order status using real-time updates on net purchasing, production and capacity requirements, and graphical symbols on each level of the formula or recipe.
Integrated quality control capabilities	Know the correct inventory status for any given item, including designations for quality control (QC) testing, QC and failed, and downgrade of product. Manage quarantined products throughout the QC process and track their release from quarantine.
Customized product and packaging capabilities	Provide your customers with increased packaging flexibility by defining effective units of measure. Enable customers to request multiple quality specifications per product while maintaining inventory visibility. Support highly flexible configurations and packaging types while combining similar products in production to improve machine utilization.
Detailed production costs analysis	Analyze and monitor production costs and requirements for each component of a sales order using graphical representations of multilevel formulas and recipes.
Optimized picking	Pull inventory in optimal sequence, employing "best before" management. Employ either first expired/first out (FEFO) or first in/first out (FIFO) calculations for inventory picking, reducing inventory, and eliminating waste.
Manufacturing process validation	Accelerate and simplify compliance with requirements from regulatory agencies such as the FDA by validating manufacturing processes with Microsoft Business Solutions–Dynamics AX for Life Sciences.
Extensive audit trails	Incorporate electronic signature functionality into your business processes, providing complete visibility and audit trails.
Web-based, workflow-enabled communication	Share information with employees using the Internet to maintain high production levels and on-time deliveries. Allow customers to order in their preferred unit of measure (UOM), and provide product availability, delivery, pricing, and other critical information to customers and suppliers through the Microsoft Dynamics AX Enterprise Portal.

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