Waris Khan

Quality Management in Dynamics 365 for Operations: Quality Control Settings in Inventory Management 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 wi...

Transportation management for landed cost in AX 2012 R3 In an earlier  post  I looked at a simple setup for automatic miscellaneous charges based on a scenario where we wanted a simple high-level estimate of freight charges applied to purchased items – this post goes one step further and uses the Dynamics AX R3 Transportation management module to assign freight charges on a vendor-by-vendor basis. I hope you’re sitting comfortably, because there’s a fair bit of setup to make this work. Setup 1. Transportation management parameters Transportation management > Setup > Transportation management parameters: My Transportation management parameters are setup as above. Setup 2. Load template Transportation management uses the terminology of Shipments and Loads. A  Load  represents an inbound or outbound entity such as a carrier, a carrier’s trailer, or an export container. Typically one or more  Shipments  will be combined to form a...