Microsoft Business Solutions Axapta Implementation – Supply Chain
Alba Spectrum Technologies
Săo 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® Master Planning streamlines your manufacturing processes and supply chain to help you reduce costs and satisfy customer demands.
Key Benefits:
Microsoft Business Solutions–Axapta Master Planning is a flexible solution that helps you optimize the flow of product from suppliers, through production to your customers.
Microsoft Axapta is an all-in-one solution that gives you real-time connectivity across your business. Master Planning exchanges information with many other functional areas in the solution including Production, Logistics, Trade and CRM to improve your overall business performance.
Optimize production flow:
Microsoft Axapta Master Planning uses information from across your company and supply chain to help you optimize production and materials planning, and scheduling. Finite materials and capacity scheduling can be performed at the same time so that available capacity, inventory levels and purchase lead times are taken into consideration in production planning. The result is more reliable planning of purchase, production and transfer orders, which optimizes your production flow and helps ensure on-time delivery to customers.
Flexible planning results in increased efficiency:
Use different master planning versions to run online simulations and what-if calculations, so you can foresee the impact of different sales forecasts and planning strategies. Master scheduling can be run in a fast, net change mode where only the latest changes are included in the calculations. This allows you to run materials and production planning as often you need to so you can always have an up-to-date picture of net requirements.
Outsource production with ease:
Outsource production to sub-contractors as the need arises in order to help free up capacity and keep your delivery promises to customers. You can model sub-contractor capacity levels in the system and quickly implement make or buy strategies at all times in the planning process.
Quickly
respond to changes:
Action messages suggest changes to purchase and production orders based on changing requirements, helping you to optimize inventory levels and improve production flow. Additionally, future messages provide notification of the earliest possible delivery date so that you can quickly take action on sales orders to maintain customer satisfaction. Increase the efficiency and accuracy of planning with time fences that help ensure that procedures are carried out at the right time according to your manufacturing policies.
Deliver on time:
Keep your delivery promises with order promising functionality that uses information from sales, warehouse, purchasing and production to give you an accurate overview of stock availability, delivery time and price. Avoid making delivery promises you can’t keep by running available-to-promise (ATP) calculations based on available inventory and current production orders, as well as capable-to-promise (CTP) calculations based on raw material lead-times and production capacity.
Fast planning for increased customer satisfaction:
Use one master planning run to cover your entire business. With Microsoft Axapta Master Planning you can speed up planning and enable employees to act on changes quickly, because all employees from production management to the shop floor have visibility into master planning changes.
Minimize inventory levels to reduce costs:
Cut down on unnecessary inventory carrying costs while still meeting your customers’ delivery demands. Forecast scheduling in Microsoft Axapta Master Planning uses sales forecasts to project production and purchasing plans that are closely matched with demand. You can also optimize safety stock levels based on target service levels or on lead time coverage. Include seasonal deviation in product sales when calculating safety stock to further refine inventory levels.
Use sales order explosion functionality to perform master scheduling on a single sales order which helps you plan faster and quickly promise your customers a reliable delivery date.
Function seamlessly across warehouses:
Further optimize your production planning by sourcing materials from across multiple warehouses. Microsoft Axapta Master Planning can operate with any number of warehouses and automatically generates transfer orders to fulfill inventory requirements. In addition, you can set up each warehouse with individual parameters to help ensure correct levels of safety stock and service at different locations.
Search and find the right vendor for you:
Reduce costs and lead times by finding the vendor that offers either the lowest price or the shortest lead time for a particular item. You can manually search for vendors depending on your priorities or Microsoft Axapta Master Planning can automatically select the best vendor based on your predefined requirements.
Part of a total solution:
Microsoft Axapta Master Planning 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.
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.