Microsoft Dynamics AX – Logistics: An inventory optimising software

Jul 8 2007 - Microsoft Dynamics AX - Logistics connects production, purchasing and sales to help you reduce costs through optimised purchasing and inventory management.

Key benefits:
1 - Optimise inventory levels by better matching supply with customer demand;
2 - Improve your inventory management with detailed insight into your inventory and item tracking;
3 - Improve your materials requirements planning with flexible options for managing bills of material; and
4 - Create bills of material with lesser time in an easy way using the graphical BOM designer.

Microsoft Dynamics AX Logistics gives you the flexibility to manage inventory and purchasing according to your needs, with functionality to support forecasting, classifying and tracking inventory and the efficient creation and management of bills of material.

Microsoft Dynamics AX is an all-in-one solution that gives you real-time connectivity across your business. Logistics exchanges information with many other functional areas in the solution including Production, Master Planning, Trade, Finance and CRM to help ensure a high degree of synergy between logistics and other key areas of your business.

Optimise inventory levels:
Microsoft Dynamics AX Logistics offers better forecasting functionality that supports long-term planning and helps you to optimise inventory levels.

You can create sales and purchase forecasts based on items and time periods and use an unlimited number of forecast models to simulate various future scenarios. To project cash flow, you can transfer item forecasts to the general ledger forecast.

Get detailed insight into your inventory:
Inventory dimensions are better tools for classifying your inventory according to storage and item characteristics, so that you can get a detailed overview of your inventory whenever you need it.

You can track items throughout the system using batch and serial numbers. You can also view documents related to an item using a simple tree-graphic from anywhere in the system.

At any time, you have direct access to information telling you where items were used and where they can be found.

Flexible management of bills of material:
Microsoft Dynamics AX Logistics gives you an efficient and flexible means of managing bills of material (BOM) to ensure you get the accurate costing and materials requirements information.

An infinite number of BOM levels can be managed in an efficient manner and accurate consumption of raw materials can be calculated using formulas specific to each component. Price calculations, using cost price, can be done for each level of the BOM, giving you accurate and detailed pricing information which is updated throughout the solution.

Multiple BOM versions can be created to provide maximum flexibility and the version date can be used to control the validity of particular BOM versions. Previous BOM versions can be accessed and reused at any time.

Create bills of material quickly and easily:
The Graphical BOM Designer is a graphical suite used to create and manage BOMs based on Microsoft drag-and-drop technology. The familiar and user-friendly environment makes it faster and easier to construct BOMs using a graphical tree-structure. The BOM designer displays all levels and components of the BOM, and you can drag and drop relevant items from the inventory table into the BOM.

The BOM designer also displays the route for the current BOM, allowing you to drag and drop items from the BOM into the operations on the route where they are to be consumed.

This helps to achieve more accurate lead time calculations when scheduling production in Microsoft Dynamics AX Master Planning.

Scalable Data Systems provides customisation services for implementing Microsoft Dynamics AX –Logistics.