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Warehouse Management System in AX 2012-Set Up & Configuration

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Warehouse Management System in AX 2012-Set Up & Configuration Hi All, As promised in my last post, I am back with WMS feature in AX 2012 R3. This is very interesting  and absolutely a new module that has been added to AX 2012 R3 whose purpose is basically to monitor and automate warehouse processes. WMS in AX is an Advanced distribution which provides complete real time and global view in the business efficiently. Warehouse Management for Microsoft Dynamics AX is an integrated warehousing solution for advanced distribution and order fulfillment that adds to the current capabilities of Microsoft Dynamics AX to support distribution companies and logistics providers. Overview of Features : You can configure inbound and outbound intelligent workflows. You can assign orders to clusters to pick from a single location, and configure profiles to control the validation and packing of items into shipping containers. You can create, implement, and release work by using batch-

LOADS, SHIPMENTS, AND WAVES OH MY! PART 2: MANY ORDERS TO ONE SHIPMENT

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PART 2 of 3-    Multiple Orders: One shipment to many sales orders As stated in Part 1 , Dynamics 356 for Operations offers the flexibility to manage outbound warehouse processes from the most basic order and ship processes to the most complex load planning requirements.  D365O uses a variety of concepts that allow this flexibility through configuration and management processes.   This blog series will cover scenarios which represent several common practices used in warehouses today.  These scenarios will illustrate how key D365O Warehouse Management concepts and configuration considerations used to enable the desired process design to meet the most simple and complex requirements. We will address three process scenarios regarding outbound order management: Part 1- Single Order:  One-to-one relationship between sales order and shipment Part 2- Multiple Order: One shipment to many sales orders Part 3- Multiple Shipment:  One load with many shipments and many orders per shipm

Creation and Posting of Sales orders in MS Dynamics AX 2012

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Hi All, Here I am going to explain normal Sales order posting in MS Dynamics AX 2012. when compared to earlier version of AX there are much changes in AX 2012 sales order process with respect to UI design and navigation as well. Process is explained below with screenshots. Navigate to module Sales and Marketing OR Accounts Receivable module —> Common –> Sales order—>All Sales order details—> Click Sales order icon in the Action pane, Sales order tab, New group. A new Create Sales order form is opened—> Select Customer account and fill relevant information in applicable fields—> Click OK at the bottom of the form. Now Sales order header is created. Sales order form as two icons in action pane called  Header view  and Line   view  in Sales order tab, in Show group as shown in below screenshot. Here we cannot see both Header and Lines, but we can see only one at a time. Now select  Lines view  and select Item in Sales order lines section. Enter Quantity

AX 2012 R3: How to install the Warehouse Mobile Devices Portal

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Exciting! Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 R3 has been released. One of the major new features is the new Warehouse management module. This module also supports the use of mobile devices to register inventory transactions in the warehouse. The mobile application is HTML based and real-time. It support transactions for all kinds of inventory transactions such as receiving goods, putting, picking, cycle counting. This post will tell you how to install the Warehouse Mobile Devices Portal on a server. Architecture Before I will go into the installation part, I will first share a picture which shows the architecture of the Warehouse Mobile Devices Portal. Simply explained: With help of the Internet Information Server, a webbrowser can access Work (specific warehouse task) and interact with it. The mobile device communicates with the IIS server with http requests. The IIS server runs an application which communicates with the AOS via WCF services in XML. Some configuration on e.g. appe