Waris Khan

Almost everyone who has been involved in the Microsoft Dynamics AX ERP industry is aware of the arsenal of tools that are now available in the latest ERP release: Dynamics 365 for Operations. What many are not aware of, however, is just how extensive and powerful the Quality Management tool can be if set-up and used properly. For the most part it sits quietly in the background of the Inventory Management module, waiting for someone to awaken this sleeping giant. At first glance it is easy to overlook what is under the hood since the cover appears so simple. However, once opened, you can unleash enough power to dazzle many a non-believer. In this first in a series of blogs I will cover how to set-up the Quality Control settings, which is the heartbeat of the Quality Management system. The Quality Control setup is where we will enter the pertinent information for testing, and I will go through this step by step. Let’s start building the heart for Quality Management. The Test In...

The new Advanced Warehousing processes in Dynamics AX 2012 R3 use the warehouse mobile client purchase order receipt process to ‘register’ the product receipt. I’ve created (and confirmed) a purchase order: Then I’ve used the warehouse mobile forms to process the purchase order receipt: And now, when we look at the purchase order we can see that we have Registered that receipt: OOPS – we’ve received the wrong purchase order. No worries, based on our previous experience of Dynamics AX we know that we can go to the  Purchase order line > Update line> Registration form and reverse the Registration: Click ‘Auto-create’: And Post all: So what happened? Warehouse work is what happened. As well as registering the purchase order receipt we’ve created warehouse work (and its concomitant inventory transactions, one of which is reserving the registered inventory so we can put it away in the warehouse): So now what we’ve got to do is not just rever...

Purpose:    The purpose of this document is to illustrate how AX can be configured to support Wave Demand Replenishments up to Maximum stocking levels. Challenge:    Min/Max Replenishment Templates are the primary mechanism for maintaining optimal levels in picking locations.    Demand replenishment is intended to be used as a supplement between Min/Max replenishment cycles to ensure that sufficient pick face inventory is available to meet wave demand.    Our goal is to replenish up to the defined maximum stocking level whenever we replenish a given picking location.    This should be done regardless of whether we’re replenishing through Min/Max Replenishment or Wave Demand replenishment. Solution:    Let’s start with a brief description of our simple warehouse layout.    The diagram below shows that the two major areas of our warehouse are Bulk Storage and Picking.    Bulk storage contains full pallet...