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Improve operational efficiency by integrating sales, production,
inventory, quality control, distribution, and customer service capabilities
throughout the process manufacturing life cycle. With Process Industries
for Microsoft Dynamics AX, 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.
Increase the speed and flexibility of your process manufacturing
operations 
Process Industries for Microsoft Dynamics AX 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. 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. 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 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
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Benefit
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Description
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Fast RFQ development time
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Shorten development time for requests for
quotations (RFQs) and reduce risk by streamlining quoting and estimating
processes.
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Flexible planning and scheduling tools
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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.
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Customizable item and dimensionality
structure
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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.
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Variable inventory and order tracking
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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.
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Integrated quality control capabilities
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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.
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Customized product and packaging capabilities
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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.
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Detailed production costs analysis
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Analyze and monitor production costs and
requirements for each component of a sales order using graphical
representations of multilevel formulas and recipes.
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Optimized picking
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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.
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Manufacturing process validation
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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.
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Extensive audit trails
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Incorporate electronic signature functionality
into your business processes, providing complete visibility
and audit trails.
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Web-based, workflow-enabled communication
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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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