Microsoft Business Solutions Axapta Implementation – Manufacturing
Alba Spectrum Technologies
São Paulo: 55-11-38263449, USA 1-866-528-0577, 1-630-961-5918
In September 2005 Microsoft changed names for its ERP applications. New Axapta name is Microsoft Dynamics AX.
Microsoft® Business Solutions–Axapta® Production gives you real-time insight into your manufacturing processes to help you increase production efficiency and reduce costs.
Key Benefits:
Microsoft Business Solutions-Axapta Production enables you to flexibly manage your manufacturing processes for increased profitability.
Production comprises three modules: Production I, which includes basic production functionality for handling material flow; Production II, which allows you to plan and execute routes, operations and rough capacity planning; and Production III, which includes Gantt chart scheduling functionality, job management and detailed production scheduling.
Microsoft Axapta is an all-in-one solution that gives you real-time connectivity across your business. The Production modules exchange information with many other functional areas in the solution including Logistics, Master Planning and Financial Management to improve your overall business performance.
Flexibly manage your manufacturing resources:
You have the flexibility you need to achieve maximum profitability from your manufacturing resources. Production orders can be created independent of or on the basis of proposals from master scheduling, and Microsoft Axapta Production enables efficient management of bills of material (BOM). Get a quick and reliable overview of the manufacturing resources required to meet customer demand by performing rough capacity scheduling taking both finite or infinite capacity and materials scheduling into consideration. You get the flexibility to schedule production processes backwards or forwards from any date
Optimize your production flow:
You can define your manufacturing resources, including machines, employees, tools or even sub-contractors as work centers and allocate them to work center groups. Scheduling can be performed at different levels of detail: operations scheduling for work center groups and job scheduling for individual work centers. You can achieve maximum scheduling flexibility by determining whether finite or infinite capacity should be used for each work center or work center group.
Detailed
capacity scheduling can determine the “best fit” between a work center and a
specific operation and automatically selects the work center with the shortest
lead time. Reduce time spent waiting for the availability of a work center with
the option of selecting the “next best” alternative.
Increase your production efficiency:
Minimize lead times by creating cross-group links between resources that can handle the same task to help ensure the most efficient scheduling. You can also reduce setup time by using properties to ensure that operations that require the same work center setup are scheduled concurrently.
Advanced facilities for sequence and bottleneck scheduling are provided, which can reduce setup times and make tight, controlled plans on the bottleneck.
Get real-time insight into production:
With Microsoft Axapta production, you have visibility into all the information you need to efficiently manage your production processes, which include planned production orders, production start times, capacity loadings, delivery dates and materials availability. Detailed job monitoring gives you a clear overview of individual work centers’ activities during the course of the day, so that you can assess production performance to schedule.
The job scheduling Gantt chart gives you a real-time, graphical overview of your production schedule so you can make tactical, day-to-day changes that optimize production flow. Schedule changes both within and between different work and machine centers easily by using simple drag and drop functionality, and visually see the consequences of your changes on the production floor.
Improve performance with flexible routings:
Choose the best route for an operation on any given day. You can set up and maintain different routing versions, including network routes that help you avoid bottlenecks and maximize production efficiency. You also have the flexibility to define that routes are assigned automatically by the system or are selected manually.
Microsoft Axapta Production gives you access to a variety of information about the operations that make up your production routes. This includes an overview of the work centers used and the queue time, setup time, run time and transport time required for each operation. You can also specify the amount of scrap and calculate the time that is expected to be used at each operation.
Use the Gantt scheduling functionality to get insight into the production flow.
Monitor production costs with ease:
Receive flexible options for recording capacity and materials consumption. You can record consumption and costs prior to production in a forward manner using base data, or record actual consumption during production. Consumption and production costs are automatically posted into the general ledger, which cuts down on manual data entry and quickly enables you to compare actual and estimated production costs.
Part of a total solution:
Microsoft Axapta Production is part of Microsoft Business Solutions-Axapta, a customizable, scalable and global Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) solution that supports connectivity with your business community and provides you with a fast and powerful way to gain competitive advantage.
For more information about Microsoft Axapta:
To learn more about Microsoft Axapta, contact your local Microsoft Business Solutions office or Microsoft Certified Business Solutions Partner, using the following Web address. They have the expertise to meet your specific business needs.
About Microsoft Business Solutions:
Microsoft Business Solutions, a division of Microsoft, offers a wide range of integrated, end-to-end business applications and services designed to help small, midmarket and corporate businesses become more connected with customers, employees, partners and suppliers. Microsoft Business Solutions' applications optimize strategic business processes across financial management, analytics, human resources management, project management, customer relationship management, field service management, supply chain management, e-commerce, manufacturing and retail management. The applications are designed to provide insight to help customers achieve business success.
More information about Microsoft Business Solutions, please contact us: SP +55-11-38263449 – USA +1-866-528-0577, or by email help@albaspectrum.com
Anderson Rutigliani is expert in ERP system at Alba Spectrum Technologies ( http://www.albaspectrum.com )– Microsoft Business Solutions Great Plains, Navision, Axapta MS CRM, Oracle Financials and IBM Lotus Domino Partner, serving corporate customers in the following industries: Aerospace & Defense, Medical & Healthcare, Distribution & Logistics, Hospitality, Banking & Finance, Wholesale & Retail, Chemicals, Oil & Gas, Placement & Recruiting, Advertising & Publishing, Textile, Pharmaceutical, Non-Profit, Beverages, Conglomerates, Apparels, Durables, Manufacturing and having locations in multiple states and internationally.