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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 m...

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 ...

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. So...

HOW TO IMPLEMENT VALUE ADDED TAX (VAT) IN MICROSOFT DYNAMICS 365?

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HOW TO IMPLEMENT VALUE ADDED TAX (VAT) IN MICROSOFT DYNAMICS 365? on  August 02, 2018 Value Added Tax or VAT is a tax on the consumption or use of goods and services levied at each point of sale. VAT is a form of indirect tax Dynamics 365 supports many types of indirect taxes, such as sales tax, value-added tax (VAT), goods and services tax (GST), unit-based fees, and withholding tax. you can check overview  here    This post discusses setup and transaction  A- Setup  The following diagram shows the entities of the tax setup and how they are related 1-Create Vendor  tax authority who collect the VAT go to  accounts payable /vendors/all vendors  and create a new  vendor account  complete the information like address and contact information, vendor group,,..etc 2- create sales tax authority go to TAX / Indirect taxes /Sales tax / Sales tax a...

Production Order Reservation in Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 R3

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Production Order Reservation in Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 R3 September 23, 2015 Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 R3 (AX 2012 R3) has newly added features that can be used to automate Production order reservation process. The automated reservation process ensures that materials will be set aside for use in the ‘Made to Order’ environment and preventing material shortages during a production run.  In addition, a new feature has been added to the Warehouse management to allow a release production order to require full reservation of materials needed or to allow a partial reservation. Below is the description of the setup for the two newly added AX 2012 R3 reservation features. Automatic Material Reservations Production Control Parameters A new option has also been added to Production control parameters, Production Control > Setup > Production Control Parameters, General tab to allow the Production creation reservation, to be selected as Release, allowing material...

Use of ingredient types for batch balancing in production

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In an earlier blog post,  http://blogs.msdn.com/b/axmfg/archive/2012/12/05/what-s-new-in-microsoft-dynamics-ax-2012-r2-potency-management.aspx#10421522 , we introduced the new capabilities in Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 R2 that support potency management business processes for process industries. This blog provides more information about the four ingredient types that were introduced, None, Active, Compensating, and Filler, and the impact that they have on how quantities are calculated for batch orders. There are many examples of the use of potency; in chemical industry the percentage of caustic can be characterized as an active ingredient in Pottassium Hydroxide, alcohol can be an active ingredient is liqueurs or fat can be an active ingredient in foods. The amout of active ingredient will often vary around a target value for these products, and the purchase price and the amount to consume in further production will often be affect...