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CU 10 for Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 R3 Available: What’s New?

by Dann Anthony Maurno
Assistant Editor, MSDW

In case you missed it, Microsoft last week released Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 R3 CU10 for download on Lifecycle Services, CustomerSource and PartnerSource.

There appears to be no overarching theme to CU10, other than some much-in-demand, real-world utilities from warehouses, shop floors and retail stores (where mobile point-of-sale or MPOS looms large), and some nuts-and-bolts country-specific regulatory requirements.

Following is a summation. According to the What's New document, most changes were made in the areas of:

  • Warehouse management
  • Transportation management
  • Retail
  • New regulatory features

Warehouse management enhancements

Among the WMS-centric enhancements are:

  • Improvements to replenishment. Among other enhancements, wave demand replenishment now recognizes existing min/max replenishment work as supply when evaluating if it should create new replenishment work. Also, cancelling wave based replenishment work will now unblock sales order work automatically.
  • Improvements when viewing inventory on hand. A new field called Available physical on exact dimensions has been added to the On hand by location form. This field shows the available physical quantity for all the dimensions displayed on the screen. Also, a new clean up job has been added under Inventory management > Periodic > Clean up > Warehouse management on-hand entries cleanup. This job will delete records in the InventSum and WHSInventReserve tables for closed on-hand entries.
  • Enhanced serial number functionalities. Items with a tracking dimension using serial numbers in the sales process can now be ...

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About Dann Anthony Maurno

Dann Anthony Maurno is a seasoned business journalist who began his career as International Marketing Manager with Lilly Software, then moved on as a freelancer to write for such prestigious clients as CFO Magazine; Compliance Week;Manufacturing Business Technology; Decision Resources, Inc.; The Economist Intelligence Unit; and corporate clients such as Iron Mountain, Microsoft and SAP. He is the co-author of Thin Air: How Wireless Technology Supports Lean Initiatives(CRC/Productivity Press, 2010).

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