Microsoft Dynamics AX for industrial distributors enables your people to make your organization more efficient by integrating your business and financial systems with sales, warehouse operations, suppliers and customers.

 

It can help you:

•	Drive down the cost of distribution by removing wasted activities in your warehouse.
•	Improve customer service by integrating specific customer requests into the business software.
•	Accurately track shipping and delivery of product by integrating automatic data collection (ADC) functionality with your enterprise resource planning (ERP).
•	Brow sales with powerful customer service capabilities and create transparency into your supply chain.

Supply and demand chain transparency with distribution ERP software

 

Synchronize demand data from customers with supplier product availability. Utilizing demand data to more effectively forecast need and schedule orders is critical to your bottom line. 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 between branches and to customers. Be better equipped to negotiate with suppliers and customers about product costs, timing and placement.

 

Complete integration

 

Automatically integrate customer demand generated by customer relationship management (CRM) activities into inventory reordering, finance, shipping, and billing. Utilize Automatic Data Collection (ADC) to keep inventory and accounting systems up to date with little manual interaction.

 

Improve operational efficiency

 

Streamline warehouse operations by removing wasted efforts. Tightly and automatically integrate product receiving and delivery with integrated back-end financial systems. Execute contracts effectively to reduce the time needed to procure stock and ship products.

 

Control your processes from start to finish

 

Track items from the time products are purchased out of the warehouse to the time of delivery 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.

 

Features overview

Benefit	Description
Total supply chain visibility	Gain visibility and monitoring ability across the extended supply chain and heterogeneous systems and underlying technologies. Scorecards and key performance indicators (KPI) tracking tools improve the quality and accessibility of information.
RFID support	Standards-based radio frequency identification (RFID) infrastructure platform provides automation and business process transformation. Business applications connect seamlessly to this RFID infrastructure.
Integration with warehouse	Integration between corporate financial systems and warehouse management systems allows for effective planning and execution and hub and spoke enablement.
Available to promise (ATP) capabilities	Manage the capacity and availability of materials with available to promise (ATP) capabilities that provide accurate inventory, scheduling and delivery information throughout the supply chain.
Integration with familiar technology	Maximize your technology investment by taking advantage of the close integration Microsoft Dynamics AX has with familiar, powerful Microsoft products such as Microsoft SQL Server 2000, Microsoft Internet Information Services 6.0, the Microsoft Office system and the Microsoft Office Outlook 2003 messaging client
Graphical planning engine	A specialized planning engine lets you use drag-and-drop functionality to graphically view the impact of changes on your processes, allowing you to evaluate several what-if scenarios and determine an effective course of action.
Flexible analysis and reporting capabilities	Integrated information in both summary and detailed views can help you improve decision-making, target the most attractive markets and reduce risk.
Multi-country capabilities and CRM	Add functionality, such as multi-country capabilities or CRM, as your business grows. Customize your solution to meet increasing customer demands for quality, safety and performance.

Next step:

 

Request more information about how Microsoft Dynamics AX can meet your organization's needs.