License up to seven more fi nancial dimensions to complement the three provided in the Base Package to perform more extensive analytical accounting. Open Dimensions enables allocation via debit/credit from one dimension type value to another.
COST ACCOUNTING III (INTERNAL COST ACCOUNTING)
With Cost Accounting III in Microsoft Dynamics AX, you can allocate or apportion costs through cost rates.
COST ACCOUNTING IV (FLEXIBLE PLANNED COST)
Cost Accounting IV includes accounting and budget forecasting features. Flexible cost calculation capability enables cost planning based on capacity usage and measure deviation of the target cost according to actual capacity usage and costs.
Prerequisite: Cost Accounting I
Prerequisite: Cost Accounting I
Prerequisite: Cost Accounting I
Supply Chain Management
INTERCOMPANY
Intercompany in Microsoft Dynamics AX enables several subsidiaries or distribution centers to trade with each other internally within one Microsoft Dynamics AX installation. Sales and purchase orders can be created manually or automatically across your subsidiaries.
Intercompany
• Defi ne and apply different trading policies when trading between different Microsoft Dynamics AX companies
• Create Intercompany order chains directly and automatically from sales order to end customer with and without direct delivery
• Create sales orders in real time, and
update intercompany sales orders from purchase orders and vice versa
• Full order and logistics transparency upstream and downstream in the intercompany chain
• Support for master scheduling across companies
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• Support for automatic payment and settlement
• Support for multiple intercompany pricing policies
• Support for various degrees of process automation for sales and purchase orders
• Exchange of information between companies, subsidiaries, and distribution centers without having to use identical identifi cation for customers, vendors, items, or units
• Receive items based on the selling subsidiary’s delivery note
• Invoice items based on the selling subsidiary’s invoice
• Make stock-on-hand inquiries in all subsidiaries
Benefi t statement:
Intercompany can give you and your customers more accurate information about inventory on-hand and delivery times. You can minimize backorders on items you’ve promised customers and reduce your stockholding costs by having visibility into inventory in all subsidiaries and sourcing inventory across locations.
Key questions:
• Can one site at your company order inventory electronically directly from other sites in your network?
• Is your company forced to tie up funds in large safety stocks distributed across different sites to keep from running out of inventory unexpectedly at any of those sites?
• Can you determine the exact inventory levels of items at all your sites to make sure you can give your customers what you promised them?
Prerequisite:
Trade
WAREHOUSE MANAGEMENT II (INVENTORY DIMENSION)
Warehouse Management II in Microsoft Dynamics AX adds logic and rules to the placement of inventory across your warehouses. When you receive inventory items, this module suggests optimal placement for storage in your warehouses based on preset rules. When you receive an order, the functionality not only tells you where it is with pallet identifi cation, but can also generate an optimized picking route.
Placement and Storage
• Specify different location and storage policies at both the warehouse level and the item level
• Random location storage functions determine the storage location based on rules regarding size, volume, and height Storage Dimensions
• Describe storage by individual warehouse, pallets, and locations Warehouse Zones and Locations
• Organize warehouses into storage zones in order to prioritize selection of locations for incoming inventory
• Specify warehouse locations on fi ve levels: warehouse, aisle, rack, shelf, and bin
Random Location Storage
• Determine storage location based on rules regarding size, volume, and height
• Allocate storage based on priority of picking locations fi rst and then buffer locations
Pick and Shipments
• Drill down output orders to possible pick locations through the shipment journal
• Include shipments for multiple orders per customer
Output Orders
• Release order-picking sales order helps ensure you have stock on hand for multiple orders
• Derive output orders from sales order lines or production order lines
• Generate output orders as requisitions to warehouse
• Defi ne shipments so that they result in the creation of optimized picking routes Shipments
• Point out orders that can be shipped together to reduce total picking time
• Consolidate shipments of multiple sales orders placed by the same customer
• Derive output orders from sales order lines or production order lines Benefi t statement:
Warehouse Management II can save you time and resources when receiving items by suggesting optimized placement for storage in your warehouses. Optimized picking routes can also save time when picking and shipping items from your warehouses. Overall, this module helps you respond more quickly to orders and reduce inventory costs.
Key questions:
• Can you track where your inventory is with precision, down to the individual pallet?
• Do your employees spend too much time trying to fi nd the best place to store newly received items in your warehouses?
• Are your warehouse operations less effi cient than they should be because your employees don’t use picking routes?
Prerequisite:
Warehouse Management l