Microsoft Dynamics AX for consumer-packaged-goods manufacturers allows you to lower your cost of manufacturing while improving your customer satisfaction. This helps you drive more successful products to market more quickly by integrating product development with customer relationship management (CRM) and manufacturing systems. It can help you decrease stock-outs on retailer shelves with greater visibility into demand, and meet retailer expectations of transparency to production with familiar desktop tools. The flexibility of it will help you integrate your systems with radio frequency identification (RFID) and manage inventory more effectively.

Supply and demand chain transparency

Synchronize demand data from retailers with supplier and production availability. Utilize this data to more effectively forecast need and schedule production. By utilizing familiar desktop tools, your people will be ready to make fast and accurate decisions based on changes in demand or disruptions in supply.

Advanced supply chain management

Automate inventory control and warehouse processes to help move goods efficiently to distribution centers and stores. Be better equipped to negotiate with retailers about product costs, timing and product placement.

Campaign management

Track sales and inventory based on key performance indicators (KPIs). Calculate delivery dates for complex orders using a mix of cross-docking, internal movement and vendor-ordering activities. Automatically calculate delivery dates based on predefined trade parameters.

Improve operational efficiency

Streamline operations on the shop floor and beyond—including research and development, administration, product life-cycle management and customer service—by automating processes and integrating project, customer and financial information. Bid and execute contracts effectively to reduce the time needed to procure materials and manufacture or assemble products. By streamlining product development, manufacturing, sales, customer service and delivery - your business can improve design, control costs, monitor quality, and serve customers effectively.

Support global design teams

Shorten time to market for new product innovations by integrating processes and managing programs effectively. By enabling global collaboration of design, integrating innovation into the manufacturing process and collaborating effectively with suppliers, partners and customers - your staff can deliver lower-cost products more quickly and enhance customer satisfaction.

Control your processes from start to finish

Track items from the time of materials purchase to the time of production and sale with lot and location control. Retrieve data easily to respond to recall notices or queries about how the item was engineered and where it may currently be in use.

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