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From the Microsoft Dynamics AX blogs: Direct Delivery Sales Orders; Using Surrogate Keys; Retail Inventory Data; Configuring the CRM Connector

by Linda Rosencrance
Contributing Writer, MSDW

A selection of the latest insight from the Dynamics AX blogs:

  • Managing Direct Delivery Sales Orders with Direct Delivery Journals;
  • How to: Use Surrogate Key, Surrogate Foreign Key, Surrogate Key Replacement Fields and Alternate Key;
  • Retail Inventory Availability with Proximity for Dynamics AX 2012 R3;
  • Configuring the Dynamics Connector to Synchronize Dynamics AX with CRM

Managing Direct Delivery Sales Orders with Direct Delivery Journals

Kelly G from the Microsoft Dynamics AX Support Team explains that with Dynamics AX R3 you now have a place to manage many Direct Delivery Sales Orders in one place, the Direct Delivery Journal. Kelly likes to think of it as the Direct Delivery "Workbench" because, like other workbench forms in R3, it provides a collective place to display many different Sales Orders and work on processing the Direct Delivery portion of the processing in one place. Kelly says this eliminates the need to bounce back and forth between the Sales Orders and Purchase Orders.

You can read more about the Direct Delivery Journals here:

How to: Use Surrogate Key, Surrogate Foreign Key, Surrogate Key Replacement Fields and Alternate Key

On his DAX for Beginners blog, Christian Silva explains that the surrogate key is a system-generated value that acts as the primary key of a table. A surrogate key is typically used in place of a set of fields, called the natural key, which would normally act as the primary key of a table.

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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.