The New Era of Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012: Faster, Better and Simpler!

AX 2012 is not just the next version of a great Microsoft ERP product but a drastic generational shift in business software which has great capabilities, startling agility, and blessed with an empowering UI experience. But the new entrant is still stuck with the original principle of simplicity. It has a simple design, is easy to implement, simple to maintain and upgrade and simple to use!

The best part about AX 2012 is its prebuilt, industry-operational functionality for different industries including manufacturing (all three: process, discrete, and lean manufacturing), distribution, retail, public sector, and service industries.

AX 2012 also acts as a global solution, which can easily scale with your business. Additionally, it provides support for 36 countries too. It also provides strong insights to boost productivity and help in better decision-making. This is the heart of Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 which at the core provides Dynamics RoleTailored user experience along with rich BI capabilities.

Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 has a set of unified, natural models that can affect your business in a positive way. Some of the other important features out of the 1000+ enhancements include

• Auto-generated SSRS reports

• Complex workflows creation capability

• Environment sustainability dashboard

• Unified procurement strategy across employees, purchasing agents, and vendors

• International Support

The RoleTailored User Interface feature highlights relevant items, multitasking, and reduces chances of critical data changes and introduces role centers. It also presents a smoother and better interface with an incredibly-looking UI with Action Panes and lot more configuration options.

AX 2012 has made several enhancements by provides collaboration workspaces which are pivotal for quick organization and information sharing about multiple projects, different marketing campaigns etc.

Microsoft’s newest ERP solution also uniquely combines a plethora of domain-specific capabilities and makes them available to a host of organizations that require capabilities of more than one industry.

The major different for the manufacturing domain from its previous version is that AX 2012 has incorporated changes for all three modes of manufacturing: discrete, lean and process manufacturing. All the three sections are now run in a single solution. One can also schedule operations and even model and execute lean manufacturing on different production flows.

Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 can also help manufacturing companies to reduce delivery lead times and cut down on inventory which is shared between work centers. The new feature of constraint-based Product Configurator can be used for product model creation, maintenance and reuse. Product components and attributes will be subjected to change as and when required.