Essential Guide for Discrete Manufacturing using Microsoft Dynamics AX: 2016 (Essential Guides for Microsoft Dynamics AX) (Volume 2)

This book focuses on how Dynamics AX supports supply chain management (SCM) in discrete manufacturing businesses. It provides an overview of the essential business processes and capabilities, and presents a linear sequence of topics that build on each other. It covers the embedded conceptual models that ultimately shape your vocabulary for describing system usage. The targeted reader consists of SCM professionals that need to initially learn AX. This Essential Guide represents an abbreviated version of Supply Chain Management using Microsoft Dynamics AX: 2016 Edition , and it focuses on the manufacturing-related topics. It covers essential topics such as BOM and routing information as well as more complex topics such as cost calculations, master scheduling, and production order processing. It also covers both the basic and advanced approaches to warehouse management for production order picking/receiving. This book also represents one of a series of Essential Guides for using Dynamics AX in a manufacturing/distribution business. Each Essential Guide covers the most critical capabilities and business processes for initially learning AX. The book contents cover two major options currently available for using AX, which can be labeled Dynamics AX 2012 R3 and the new Dynamics AX . The two options provide the same supply chain management functionality with some slight differences, so that the book contents apply to both options.