This document discusses the new features in Dynamics AX 2012 for managing supply chains. It overviews investments in supply chain management (SCM), including improved product information management, intercompany functionality, purchasing, and sales order management. It also describes enhancements to supply chain optimization through better integration of production types, visual scheduling tools, and batch processing. Finally, it outlines improvements to the multi-entity architecture for managing products across companies and enhanced governance and control capabilities in AX 2012.

1. Managing your Supply Chain in
Dynamics AX 2012
James Page
Tim Schofield
10 August 2011

2. Managing your Supply Chain in Dynamics AX 2012
What’s new in Dynamics AX 2012?
 Overview of investment made in SCM
 Supply chain optimisation
 Integration of Lean, Process and Discrete production
 Visual scheduling
 Batch processing
 Multi-entity architecture improvements
 Product information management
 Intercompany master planning
 Governance and control
 Workflow & Portal PO approval
 Budgetary controls and governance
 Leveraging the Cues, KPIs and Reporting
 Session summary

3. Investments in Supply
Chain Management

4. Managing your Supply Chain in Dynamics AX 2012
Investments made in AX 2012 SCM
 Product information management
 Product master
 ‘Release’ products to companies
 Product configurator
 Intercompany
 Intercompany setup simplified
 Intercompany ‘goods in transit’ reporting
 Intercompany planning and overviews

5. Managing your Supply Chain in Dynamics AX 2012
Investments made in AX 2012 SCM
 Purchasing
 Decouple purchasing from inventory
 Purchase order approval and change management
(in addition to Purchase requisition approval)
 Line level approval
 Purchase requisition consolidation
 Purchase delivery schedule
 Purchase agreements
 Tighter integration with fixed assets

6. Managing your Supply Chain in Dynamics AX 2012
Investments made in AX 2012 SCM
 Sales orders
 Sales agreements
 Sales delivery schedules

7. Managing your Supply Chain in Dynamics AX 2012
Investments made in AX 2012 SCM
 Manufacturing and scheduling
 New flexible resource scheduling model
 Resource scheduling performance improvements
 User defined period templates for summary display
(day/week/month buckets)
 Lean manufacturing re-implemented and more closely integrated
with traditional supply chain processes
 Visual scheduling displays improved
 ‘Time and Attendance’ function replace old ‘Shop Floor control’
module

8. Supply Chain Optimisation

9. Managing your Supply Chain in Dynamics AX 2012
Supply chain optimisation
 Integration of Lean, Process and Discrete production
 New inventory transaction, order and planned order types
 Visual scheduling
 Kanban scheduling board
 Supply overview
 Available to promise
 Batch processing
 Batch inventory disposition codes
 Batch attributes
 Batch reservation (single batch and batch attributes)

10. Multi-entity architecture

11. Managing your Supply Chain in Dynamics AX 2012
Multi-entity architecture improvements
 Product information management
 New system-wide table holds Products and ‘Product masters’
 Products and Product variants are ‘Released’ to specific
operating companies
 Intercompany master planning
 Downstream planned orders now show in the upstream supply
companies
 New inquiry forms for inter-company planning
 New multi-level pegging inquiry displays inter-company supply
chain

12. Governance and Control

13. Managing your Supply Chain in Dynamics AX 2012
Governance and control
 Workflow & Portal PO approval
 Budgetary controls and governance
 Leveraging the Cues, KPIs and Reporting

14. Managing your Supply Chain in Dynamics AX 2012
Session Summary
 Investigated the investment made in SCM
 Stepped through some key changes in Dynamics AX
2012 SCM:
 Integration of Lead, Process and Discrete
 Visual scheduling
 Batch processing
 Multi-entity architecture improvements
 Governance and control

15. Questions

16. And finally
Our “Optimising Supply Chain Processes through
Mobility Solutions” session will give you the opportunity to
enter sales orders from your smartphone
 Phone must have wi-fi and a browser
 If you want to try this, you must see Julian Brown during
lunch break to get your phone connected to our local wi-fi
network
 Number of spots is limited
 Julian will be located in the Experts Lounge next to the
Dynamics AX stand

17. Thank you