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From the Microsoft Dynamics AX Blogs: AX 2012 R2 Mixed-Mode Manufacturing; Consolidated Invoices; Modelstore Deployment; Performance Analyzer 1.16

by Linda Rosencrance
Contributing Writer, MSDW

Innovations in Process Manufacturing: As part of its effort to highlight different industry-specific features, the Dynamics AX product team offer up a closer look at the process manufacturing capabilities of Dynamics AX 2012 R2. In this blog post, the team points out some of the benefits that process manufacturers, even those with mixed modes, will receive.

Manufacturers such as Peet's Coffee and Tea or Amalie Oil Company have bits and pieces of discrete, process, and even lean manufacturing processes throughout their organizations. If you have mixed-mode manufacturing needs then you too may find the new "out-of-the-box" capabilities in R2 extremely beneficial.  If you'd also gain value from improvements in your process manufacturing efforts, let's take a look at three key process manufacturing enhancements within the R2 release . . .

You can read about those three processes: potency management, basic sequencing, and lot inheritance (lot genealogy) here.

Dynamics AX 2012 R2: Fine Tune Consolidated Invoices: In his Dynamics AX blog, Kurt Hatlevik says that in Dynamics AX, sales orders have a customer account and an invoice account. The idea is to support the scenarios where customers in an enterprise have centralized their invoice processing. So you have the customer account where the items should be sent, and an invoice account, where the invoice should be sent. Hatlevik says:

In AX 2012 you also have the option to create consolidated invoices, where multiple sales orders are consolidated into a single invoice. In standard AX 2012 R2, the consolidation will happen per invoice account. But we have experienced that many customers wants to have a consolidated invoice per customer AND invoice account. The reason for this ...

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About Linda Rosencrance

Linda Rosencrance is a freelance writer/editor in the Boston area. Rosencrance has over 25 years experience as an reporter/investigative reporter, writing for many newspapers in the metropolitan Boston area. Rosencrance has been writing about information technology for the past 16 years.

She has covered a variety of IT subjects, including Microsoft Dynamics, mobile security issues such as data loss prevention, network management, secure mobile app development, privacy, cloud computing, BI, big data, analytics, HR, CRM, ERP, and enterprise IT.

Rosencrance is the author of six true crime books for Kensington Publishing Corp.

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