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Paving the Road to Your Business’s Success with Dynamics 365 for Finance & Operations, On-Premise

Dynamics 365 & Dynamics AX  are on-premise enterprise resource planning (ERP) solutions for your medium to large sized business.  The familiar software offers a united, and comprehensive business solution to handle most if not all of your business needs from financials, human capital management, and operations management that helps your company:

  • run efficiently
  • discern patterns and analytics
  • make smart business decisions
  • engage customers

Dynamics 365 Finance and Supply Chain  or Operations is now available to purchase on-premise.  Dynamics 365 Finance and Supply Chain/Operations (Microsoft has changed the name from Dynamics for Operations to Dynamics 365 Finance and Supply Chain)


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Note: This graphic extracts the best qualities and functions of Dynamics 365 & Dynamics AX, but can not document them all.

 For more specifics visit the modules section of this page.

Dynamics 365 & Dynamics AX On-Premise Functionality


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Why Clients Choose Dynamics 365 or AX On-Premise?

Key elements to success in today’s business world are the company’s software and its ability to process business intelligence. Microsoft Dynamics AX On-Premise, based on a powerful and flexible platform built by Microsoft, enables you to achieve visibility, insight and control over your operations.  And most importantly, it’s designed to work the way your people already work—with Microsoft business apps and IT infrastructure—so you’ll see faster adoption and broader usage.

What makes Dynamics AX an ideal candidate for both local and comprehensive global management solutions is its multi-language and multi-currency features.  An added bonus is that, Dynamics AX is designed to cost-effectively support customizations that are necessary for companies to adapt, grow and maintain a competitive edge.  These customizations are implemented by our team to make the system work better for your company, and require little to no maintenance from your team. This may sound complex, but Microsoft Dynamics AX has an interface that is built like other familiar Microsoft products and is so easy to use. Because of the customization and scalable configurabilty of AX, the solution is a better fit for manufacturers. Dynamics ERP gives businesses like retail, manufacturing, job shops, and MRO’s:

  • process improvements
  • job costing
  • resource scheduling
  • financial knowledge

Other solutions offer enterprise integration, but fall short as they don’t integrate with other software.  Dynamics AX is one unified integrative ERP solution.

Dynamics 365 & Dynamics AX On-Premise Modules and Functionality

Dynamics AX On-Premise is composed of a suite of modules, which can be thought of as functional compartments.  These modules represent areas such as financials, human resources, project accounting and production, to name just a few.

As the software is feature rich with a lower total cost of ownership; your company is getting Tier 1 software at a Tier 2 price.

The core ERP capabilities or modules support your users with the role based information they need. Think of Dynamics AX as an all inclusive tool-kit.  It has many parts, but is not complicated to use.  Use what you need after implementation, and if your business obligations demand more functionality, Dynamics AX can help with that in the future too.

View the 14 most used modules and their description below to realize there really is no better ERP package that scales for growth than Dynamics AX.

Business Intelligence

Financial Management

Human Capital

Procurement & Sourcing

Production Management

Project Management

Sales & Marketing

Service Management

Supply Chain Management

365 & AX Transport

Warehouse Management

Global Data Management

Master Data Management

Multi-country & Multi-currency

Procurement & Sourcing

Dynamics 365 & Dynamics AX On-Premise Business Intelligence & Reporting

Module
Description
Management Reporter
Create boardroom-quality reports without IT assistance, consolidate across both Microsoft Dynamics ERP and other general ledgers, and take advantage of secure report distribution and storage through the centralized Report Library.

Microsoft SQL Server Analysis Server
Drive actionable insights to people across the enterprise using easy-to-use online analytical processing (OLAP) and data-mining capabilities. Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 provides preconfigured data cubes for key business areas. Employees can easily access the data from KPIs in their Role Center or directly from Microsoft Excel.
Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services
Give employees instant access to information with built-in reports using Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services. Automatically generate custom reports with Microsoft SQL Server Report Builder, an ad hoc query tool. Access a wide variety of standard reports (more than 800) including analytical reports.

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Dynamics 365 & AX On-Premise Financial Management Capabilities

ModuleDescription
Role center
Accountant, accounting manager, accounts payable coordinator, accounts receiveable administrator, bookkeeper, CEO, CFO, controller, treasurer, budget manager, environmemtal manager, credit, collections manager, and create your own (CYO) role center.
Accounts payable
Match and pay invoices, allocate charges, pay expenses, commissions, and salaries,
and track purchase order prepayments. Offer vendors access to relevant information
through the vendor portal.
Accounts receivable
Track invoices, terms, and discounts. Process customer prepayments. Receive and enter customer payments. Monitor credit checks and manage collections with integration to case management to centralize and monitor all activities per case.
Bank management
Maintain the legal entity’s bank accounts and financial instruments that are
associated with those bank accounts. Monitor deposits, payments, drafts, and bank
balances with support for electronic payments. Manage letters of guarantee and
checks.
Compliance and internal controls
Help ensure compliance with laws, regulations, policies, and business rules. Manage the implementation and execution of internal controls with the Compliance Center. Define corporate policies for expenses, invoices, and purchase orders and automate the auditing process with the Audit Workbench. Use electronic signatures to identify and register the person changing and/or approving changes. The toolset is supplemented with a database log that enables administrators to see when a record was created or last changed, and who changed it. Ensure segregation of duties with role-based security. Determine the organization’s environmental footprint using the Environmental Manager Role Center
Country-specific capabilities
Supports multiple currencies, as well as country-specific capabilities to help organizations meet local and regional financial regulations (such as value-added tax (VAT) requirements) and market requirements (such as electronic banking).
Financial dimensions
Get insight into your business by tagging transactions using unlimited financial dimensions. Dimensions are used across the various modules in Microsoft Dynamics AX, and can be used for tracking profit, cost centers, departments, value streams, product lines, or any other reporting units. The ability to update the general ledger online provides fast and accurate financial reporting.
Financial reporting
Financial statements enable a custom reporting structure and mapping of ledger accounts or dimensions to the reporting structures. Financial reports, to comply with legal requirements and international accounting standards, include balance sheet, income statement, and cash flow statement. Financial statements are compatible with Extensible Business Reporting Language (XBRL). In addition, gain insight into the organization’s financials using transactional reports (retrieve data from the transaction processing database), analytical reports (retrieve data from Microsoft SQL Server® Analysis Services cubes), and key performance indicators (KPIs). Examples of predefined cubes for the financial domain are accounts payable, accounts receivable, environmental sustainability, and general ledger. Create boardroom-quality reports without IT assistance, consolidate across both Microsoft Dynamics ERP and other general ledgers, and take advantage of secure report distribution and storage through the centralized Report Library using Management Reporter.*
Fixed assets
Manage the full accounting life cycle of assets from acquisition to depreciation, and transfer/disposition.
General ledger
Financial accounting record management with ability to configure multiple and recurring journals, allocation of cost and income, and support creation of closing transactions, including preparation of preclosing documents and closing books. Gain insight using unlimited financial dimensions and advanced account structures and rules.
Intercompany accounting and shared services
Book transactions across subsidiaries and the parent company. Consolidate financial records. Support shared services in organizations with multiple legal entities by using centralized processing of customer and vendor payments
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Dynamics 365 & Dynamics AX Human Capital Management Capabilities

ModuleDescription
Role center
Human resource manager, training manager, and create your own.

Absence management

Establish, communicate, and monitor absence policies.
Benefits administration
Define organizational benefit plans, enroll workers in benefits, assign dependent coverage, and designate beneficiaries

Compensation management

Manage employee compensation

Employee self-service portal

Manage employee development and performance including development plans, skill-gap analysis tools, and periodic career discussions
Organization administration

Administer organizational structures, including formal and informal hierarchies and position management.
Questionnaires
Design, schedule, and use questionnaires that can be used across functional domains and legal entities. The capabilities also include the communication capabilities with target audiences within and outside the organization. Questionnaires can be published on the web.

Recruitment and selection management
Administer recruitment processes including campaigns, screening, developments, and candidate correspondence. Sites Services extend the recruitment process with a cloud-based service facilitating the job posting process to and application of external candidates.

Skill mapping

Analyze skills (gaps) based on job profiles and search for skills (including filtering and weighting of skills).

Time and attendance

Track profile-based, clock-in/clock-out registrations for workers and generate pay information to payroll system.
Training

Set up, deliver, and analyze training courses.
Travel and expense
Manage expenses with integrated workflow. Submit a travel requisition including projected cost of travel for approval. Define expense policies and automate the reimbursement of travel expenses. Gain insight into expense behavior with the expense management cube.
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Dynamics 365 & Dynamics AX On-Premise Procurement and Sourcing

ModuleDescription
Role centers
Purchasing agent, purchasing manager, employee, shipping and receiving, order processor, and CYO.
Category management
Provides category managers the ability to define different category hierarchies that are independent of, but still related to, commodity codes or catalog/item hierarchies in order to easily manage the overall spending based on categories.
Direct procurement
Manage the entire life cycle of procurement from planned purchase order to confirming and changing a purchase order. This cycle also includes returned orders. This module also supports direct deliveries, pro-forma purchase orders, and landedcost charges to purchase orders such as freight, insurance, and unrecoverable taxes.
Indirect procurement (catalog and non-catalog)
Manage purchase requisitions of indirect goods and services using a catalog-based or non-catalog-based procurement process. The procurement process is supported by an approval workflow using the organizational hierarchy. A Microsoft SharePoint®–based catalog can easily be created from products defined in product information management. The catalog also supports punch-out capabilities to external vendor sites. Sophisticated budget check is included.
Procurement reporting
Gain insight into the organization’s procurement performance using transactional reports, analytical reports (such as vendor and procurement spend analysis, top 100 vendors, vendor performance), and KPIs. A predefined data cube for purchasing is included.
Procurement workflows
Procurement operations can be driven and governed by workflows. With the flexible and visual workflow engine, procurement managers are able to set up workflows that make the procurement cycle more efficient and enforce purchasing policy compliance.
Purchasing policies and signing limits
Enforce purchasing policies with a collection of purchasing policy rules that control the procurement process. A centralized procurement desk defines policy rules to support global policies and processes, and applies them to purchase requisitions and purchase orders based on the legal buying entity and operating unit. For procurement and sourcing there are six policy rules: catalog, catalog access, category, purchase requisition RFQ, purchase requisition control, and purchase order creation and demand consolidation. In addition to policy rules, Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 provides expenditure reviewers and signing limits.
Request for quotations (RFQ)
Manage the RFQ process including vendor reply, comparison, and selection. Replies can be entered by the vendor in the vendor portal. Take advantage of Sites Services* to extend the procurement process with a cloud-based service facilitating the RFQ process.
Trade agreements (vendor)
Manage price and multifaceted discount policies in all currencies. The price revision process can be governed by workflows to ensure compliance with internal policies. The generic currency agreement allows prices to be set up in a single currency and automatically converted to the vendor’s currency
Training with task guides
A Task Guide is an end-user focused experience that allows the user to follow a guided step-by-step set of how-to instructions to complete a business scenario that is contained in a Task recording. The user is instructed to complete each step by way of a pop-up prompt.
Vendor management
Vendor management includes vendor search, vendor maintenance, and support for requesting and approving a new vendor via the Enterprise Portal supported by workflow. Take advantage of Sites Services* to extend the vendor onboarding process with a cloud-based service facilitating the dialog with new vendors.
Vendor self-service portal
Enable vendors to update profile data, upload catalog content, and review invoices and payments. Vendors can receive notifications from the organization, respond to RFQs, and view vendor performance.
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Dynamics 365 & Dynamics AX Production Management

ModuleDescription
Role centers
Operations manager, production manager, and CYO.
Inventory dimensions for process manufacturing
Define multiple inventory dimensions, including dual units of measure, catch-weight calculations, packaging codes, variations to the main item, and lots.
Lean manufacturingModel manufacturing and logistics processes as production flows. Use kanbans and kanban boards to signal demand requirements.
Material and capacity planning
Optimize production and materials planning, forecasting, and scheduling. Simultaneously schedule materials and capacity. Calculate available-to-promise (ATP) and capable-to-promise (CTP) deliveries. Plan and execute routing and operations. Use finite or infinite planning.
Product configuration
Configure custom products with a unique bill of materials and routing by using the product configurator. The product configuration models are based on constraints, and can be used from sales order, sales quotation, purchase order, and production order.
Production bill of materials (BOM)
Create a bill of materials for production including phantoms using a graphical BOM designer. Modify and track individual line items. Manage multilevel formulas or recipes, coproducts, and byproducts. Use version control to release the right BOM.
The process can even be simplified with an ISV product called CADLink.
Production costing
Understand work in progress (WIP) and actual cost through production tracking and reporting. Track detailed resource and throughput costs, including work center costs. Report production variances to standard costs.
Production orders
Create, schedule, view, track, split, roll back, or categorize production orders to maximize efficiency. Create production orders from sales orders. Follow production through creation, estimation, schedule, release, started, finished, and costed. Use scrap on BOM, resource, and route.
Production reporting
Gain insight with predefined KPIs in the SQL Server analysis data cube for production.
Production scheduling and sequencing
Use finite or infinite scheduling, forward and backward from various dates. Quickly (re)schedule jobs and simulate alternatives by dragging Gantt chart items. Resolve scheduling overloads by reassigning operations to alternate work centers. Optimize scheduling across the organization with a unified resource model and scheduling engine. Improve machine utilization by combining similar products while letting customers request multiple quality specifications per product.
Resource management
Schedule and track material, shop, and manpower resources. Plan resources based on production activities and capabilities of resources. Types of resources can be tool, machine, vendor, location, and human resource. Resource allocation principles include resource requirement types: resource (group), type, capability, skill, course, certificate, and title
Routing
Manage routing: Plan simple, sequential, and complex networks; use simultaneous routes in the same network. Use rough-cut capacity and detailed scheduling capabilities. Organize the shop floor into logical production units at individual sites.
Shop Floor Control
Manage and track shop floor operations. Register products and resources and items for operations and jobs including a touch-enabled data entry.
Subcontracting
Manage various ways of partnering with subcontractors including outsourcing of route operations, vendor-supplied items, and item provisioning to subcontractors. Link subcontractor purchase order (PO) to production order
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Dynamics 365 & Dynamics AX On-Premise Project Management and Accounting

ModuleDescription
Role centers
Project manager, project team member, and CYO.
Grant management
Manage project and grant funding by associating multiple funding sources with a project or grant, optionally linking any transaction to a specific funding source, prioritizing funding sources, and restricting funding sources to exclusive activities or classes of expenditures.
Interoperability with Microsoft Project
Projects can be integrated with the scheduling and resource management capabilities of Microsoft Project Server 2010 to streamline project management for any size of project. Take advantage of bidirectional interoperability with Microsoft Project for projects, activities, tasks, and resource allocation.
Project accounting and invoicing
Enter and itemize project costs, employee hours, materials used, and fees incurred. Streamline billing of projects by creating and editing invoice proposals for hours, expenses, items, sales orders, fees, subscriptions, advance and deduction payments, or milestones. Split billing enables shared project costs between multiple customers or internal organizations. Retention terms can be specified on customer invoices and vendor payments. Approval workflow ensures accurate project invoices before they are sent to the customer. Schedule payments to project vendors when you receive payments from customers (pay when paid). Retain part of payment to a vendor. Funding limits enforce contractual caps on project costs.
Project budgeting and cost control
Manage projects with forecast (hour, expense, item, fee, on-account) and budgets. Project budgets are workflow-enabled for approval of original budgets and revisions. Maintain project cost control by summarizing actual cost, committed cost, and remaining budget to discover total expected cost, and compare with the original budget. Measure utilization rates by comparing actual hours to budgeted hours. Compare the status of invoiced and chargeable transactions of a project or contract with the project quotation.
Project management
Plan, create, manage, control, and complete projects for your organization including time and materials, fixed price, and internal projects like investment, cost, and time projects. Create a project hierarchy comprising multiple subprojects. Easily plan projects, large or small, by matching work requirements with available resources. Work breakdown structure (see below) templates make it easy to quickly plan common types of projects. Task requirements (skills, education, experience) help find the right resource for the job.
Project quotations
Work breakdown templates enable you to quickly build accurate project quotations. And project quotation profitability helps you select the right opportunities to pursue. Gain project visibility with quotation approval workflows.
Project time and expense
Capture project time and expense quickly and accurately. Enter timesheets through project time management or Enterprise Portal. Time-entry is supported by an approval process. Charge travel-related expenses against specific projects with expense management. Full integration with expense management enables expenses to be distributed to a single project or across multiple projects.
Reporting
Gain insight in project management performance with predefined KPIs in the project accounting cube. Access standard reports including reports for profit and loss, consumed costs, payroll allocation, invoice on-account, actual versus budgeted costs, and cash flow. Project control gives you a real-time snapshot of project performance. Utilization control gives you a real-time snapshot of project performance
Revenue recognition and work-in-progress (WIP)
Recognize actual costs to avoid potential cost overruns. Post and accrue revenue for fixed price based on completion percentage or completed contract. Accrue revenue or capitalize costs for time-and-material projects to recognize gross margin. Handle WIP for investment projects during the project before final elimination of the WIP value to a fixed asset upon completion.
Work breakdown structures
Create your own hierarchical work breakdown structure for more detailed control. Add specific information to these activities including schedule, requirements, estimated cost and revenue, and worker attributes
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Dynamics 365 & Dynamics AX Sales & Marketing

ModuleDescription
Role centersMarketing executive, sales manager, super sales rep, dedicated sales rep, account manager, marketing manager, and marketing staffer.
Sales force automation
Forecast and plan sales.
Trade agreements (customer)
Manage price and multifaceted discount policies in all currencies. The price revision process can be governed by workflows to ensure compliance with internal policies. The generic currency agreement allows prices to be set up in a single currency and automatically converted to the customer’s currency
Sales agreement
Manage agreements based on monetary or volume commitments. Organizations are able to set up agreements with specific terms and conditions and monitor the status.
Marketing automation
Develop, conduct, follow up on, and analyze marketing campaigns for any defined group of customers and prospects.
Lead and opportunity management
Manage leads and opportunities including the ability to create, review, update, and manage information about leads. Associate employees, responsibilities, and campaign data with stored information.
Sales management
Set, monitor, and manage sales performance of sales personnel, sales units, and sales companies.
Connector for Microsoft Dynamics CRM
Share sales information between Microsoft Dynamics AX and Microsoft Dynamics CRM both online and on-premises.
Case management (including Sites Services)
Efficiently open, assign, resolve, and follow up on customer issues from a single form. Sites Services* extend the case management process with a cloud-based service, facilitating the dialog with customers.
Sales and marketing reporting
Gain insight in sales and marketing performance with predefined KPIs in the sales and customer relationship management (CRM) cubes.
Questionnaires
Design, schedule, and use questionnaires that can be used across functional domains and legal entities. The capabilities also include the communication capabilities with target audiences within and outside the organization. Questionnaires can be published on the web.
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Dynamics 365 & Dynamics AX On-Premise Service Management

ModuleDescription
Role centersCustomer service manager and CYO

Customer feedback management
Use case management and questionnaires to improve your customer service delivery.
Performance reporting
Analyze expenses and profit and loss associated with the service engagement.
Repair management
Register repair tasks, track diagnosis, and record resolution. Identify faulty products.
Service agreements
Tailor agreements to a wide range of customer requirements, service prices, and payment arrangements. Work with flexible templates and quickly create detailed, multilevel agreements, and define tasks and frequency for service calls.
Service calls and dispatching
Create service tasks and appointments within the Microsoft Outlook® messaging and collaboration client.
Service orders and contracts
A service order represents a visit of a service technician to a customer site. Set up orders manually or automatically at periodic intervals. Record service time, expenses, and items. Rapidly create service orders over the Internet with Enterprise Portal in Microsoft Dynamics AX.
Service subscriptions
Create and process service subscriptions for fixed-price service over a period of time. Accommodate revenue based on fixed or irregular periods and multiple price arrangements.
Training with task guides
A Task Guide is an end-user focused experience that allows the user to follow a guided step-by-step set of how-to instructions to complete a business scenario that is contained in a Task recording. The user is instructed to complete each step by way of a pop-up prompt.
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Dynamics 365 & Dynamics AX Supply Chain Management

ModuleDescription
Role centers
Purchasing agent, purchasing manager, shipping and receiving, order processor.
Forecasting
Enter and edit sales and purchase forecasts. Use specific keys to allocate forecast to individual items and time periods.
Intercompany
Automate trade between subsidiaries or distribution centers. Sales and purchase orders can be generated manually or automatically across your subsidiaries.
Inventory management
Track items by inventory dimensions including site, warehouse, pallet, location, batch, and serial number. Take advantage of multiple inventory control systems and inventory valuation methods including first in/first out (FIFO), last in/first out (LIFO), standard cost, moving, and weighted average. Reduce inventory costs and eliminate waste by using the ABC-analysis and by pulling inventory in optimal sequence using “best-before” management and first expired/first out (FEFO) or first in/first out (FIFO) picking guidance.
Multisite warehouse management
Manage storage locations and material handling within warehouses. Apply advanced inbound algorithms using multiple warehouse zones and replenishment strategies. Optimize picking with a choice of picking methods. Track inventory on hand per warehouse.
Product management of goods and services

Centralize management of products and services across the organization including BOM and process formulas (see Product Information Management).
Quality management
Improve business processes for quality assurance, quality control, and lot traceability. Manage the test process. Set aside items in quarantine using quarantine orders.
Returns management
Manage the return order process. Control who can return items, and which items can be returned. Categorize returns according to reason code or method of disposition.
Shipping carrier interface
Automatically transfer information received from shipping carriers (Fedex, UPS, and Kewill), including freight charges and tracking numbers, to Microsoft Dynamics AX.
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Dynamics 365 & Dynamics AX On-Premise Transportation Management

ModuleDescription
Route Management
manage your company’s transportation, and identify vendor and routing solutions for inbound and outbound orders. For example, you can identify the fastest route or the least expensive rate for a shipment.
Route Schedules
A scheduled route is a predefined route with predefined hubs (that being vendors, customers or warehouses) you execute regularly on a given schedule.
Transportation Planning
Calculates Inbound/Outbound Shipments and Multi-Shipment Loads. Can calculate shipment consolidation and load building. Schedules appointments. Tracks Driver Check-in/check out history as well as driver log management. Shops Rates based on set criteria.
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Dynamics 365 & Dynamics AX Warehouse Management

ModuleDescription
Role centers
Shipping and Receiving, CYO.
Advanced cycle counting
Improve your customer service level with real-time visibility into inventory using the inventory dimensions including license plates. Account for inventory with multiple cycle counting strategies including threshold cycle counting for picking, cycle counting plans, zero quantity on hand cycle counting, and ad-hoc cycle counting using filtering.
Cluster picking
Use flexible location directives to organize your warehouse layout and zones.
Configurable put away and picking workflows
Efficiently put away inbound goods with advanced put away strategies. Increase flexibility by configuring simple workflows without coding for put-away and picking activities. Use filter capabilities to determine the custom workflow.
Location replenishment capabilities
Replenish inventory based on picking, min/max, and transportation load based replenishment.
Material handling with Radio Frequency (RF)
Support material handling within the warehouse with browser-based mobile handheld RF-devices. Create mobile handheld device menus from within Microsoft Dynamics AX including creation of new menus for each user or user groups, change layout and colors, and error log and actions.
Warehouse handheld device support
Give warehouse workers scanning precision and enhanced performance in picking and put away processes.
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Dynamics 365 & Dynamics AX On-Premise Global Data

ModuleDescription
Business policies
Define policy rules in functional modules to help guide the flow of business. The policy framework can be used to define policies including signing limits, expense reports, purchase requisitions, audit control of documents, and payment of vendor invoices.
Document management
Attach documents to records throughout the application using the document management system. It handles several types of documents, including letters, worksheets, and simple notes.
Financial dimensions
Get insight into your business by tagging transactions using unlimited financial dimensions. Dimensions are used across the various modules in Microsoft Dynamics AX, and can be used for tracking profit, cost centers, departments, value streams, product lines, or any other reporting units. The ability to update the general ledger online provides fast and accurate financial reporting.
Inventory dimensions
Inventory and tracking dimensions: Track physical and financial transactions using inventory dimensions including site, warehouse, location, pallet, batch, and serial number.
Resource scheduling
Plan resources based on production activities and capabilities of resources. Types of resources can be tool, machine, vendor, location, and human resource.
Tax calculation
Define flexible, multidimensional tax setup to comply with the various tax regulations in multiple countries. Use tax codes, tax groups, and item tax groups to configure taxes. The emphasis of the tax module is on sales taxes, but it could also be used to configure other duties and taxes, including country-specific tax reporting, packaging duties, EU reverse charge tax, and United States use tax.
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Dynamics 365 & Dynamics AX Master Data

ModuleDescription
Currency
Efficiently handle financial transactions in multiple currencies, including support of various currency calculations, and exchange rate retrieval. In addition you can use a base currency and a secondary reporting currency. Share exchange rates across multiple legal entities

Language
People and organizations have the option of presenting the Microsoft Dynamics AX user interface, online help, forms, reports, and menus in any of the available languages. Languages can also be used in printed reports, invoices, purchase and sales orders, and other business documents, and by remote users in the Enterprise Portal interface. Find an overview of the available languages here.
Other
Take advantage of other reference data such as unit of measure, category, and (fiscal) calendar.
Time zone
Support multiple time zones, which can be set at user level.
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Dynamics 365 & Dynamics AX Multi-country/Multi Currency Management

ModuleDescription
Global address book
Share information on all organizations and people—internal and external—that the organization is engaged with through a common repository. The information in the global address book is abstracted in the form of a party. Roles associated with a party include customers, prospects, vendors, employees, competitors, contacts, and workers.
Organization model
Model your organizational structures to accurately reflect your organization. Set up multiple organizational hierarchies to view and report on your business from different perspectives. You can define the following types of internal organizations: legal entities, operating units, and teams. View and edit the organizational hierarchy using a graphical representation.
Product information management
Centralize management of products and services (non-stock items) across the organization, including bills of materials (discrete manufacturing), formulas (process manufacturing), and variant and configurable products. Describe items using up to four item dimensions: configuration, size, style, and color. Manage the release of products and services to individual legal entities.

How Is Dynamics 365 & Dynamics AX On-Premise Sold & Implemented?

Microsoft Dynamics AX is sold through Value Added Resellers, commonly referred to as Dynamics AX Partners. Partners will issue and help you implement your license of Dynamics AX.  Additional modules, users and add-ons for Dynamics AX can also be licensed through your partner.

At Clients First Business Solutions, we know that there is no such thing as “universal” ERP solutions.  Dynamics AX can be implemented without customization, but to be better effective at your company, Dynamics AX can be tailored to your company’s needs, organizational culture, staff capabilities, and project’s characteristics.

We recommend consulting a Dynamics AX partner such as Clients First who has experience working with the product since its inception.  This ensures adequate experience in deploying the system in environments.  Call 800.331.8382 for any questions regarding Dynamics AX or Dynamics 365.

How does Dynamics 365 & Dynamics AX On-Premise stack up against other ERP software?

Dynamics AX is considered a leader in functionality and usability for manufacturers, job shops, and project based accounting.  Read the Panorama report detailing how and why AX is shortlisted and selected most often.

While there are other Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) packages, no others quite compare with Dynamics AX as the software has:

  • lower than average implementation time of 10 months
  • lower cost of implementation
  • lower risk in implementation due to Life-cycle services
  • higher customization abilities allowing for company wide satisfaction and user-satisfaction

Dynamics AX On-Premise versus competitors

Source: Clash of the Titans, Panorama 2015

Further Documentation Showing You the Abundant Value of Dynamics 365 & Dynamics AX On-Premise from Nucleus Research:

  • Nucleus Research: Technology Value
  • Nucleus Research:  Nucleus Research Dynamics AX For Manufacturers
  • Nucleus Research:  6 Out of 10 Customers Would Not Buy SAP Again

More Specific Dynamics 365 & Dynamics AX On-Premise Questions? View FAQ

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Frequently asked Questions About Dynamics AX Functionality

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