| Axapta or now Microsoft Dynamics AX (with the | | | | based on customer unique order requirementso |
| new name for Microsoft Project Green - Microsoft | | | | Service Management. Imagine machinery servicing |
| Dynamics) is in the initial phase of requirements | | | | franchise business, when you have to maintain and |
| mapping for first implementation in Brazil. It is localized | | | | support machinery fleet across Brazil - replacing parts |
| to support Brazilian taxation, federal & state | | | | on unique demand, ordering parts from your |
| reporting and translated to Portuguese. In this small | | | | franchisor warehouses and production plants |
| publication we would like to focus on Axapta strong | | | | worldwideo CRM . Axapta has its own CRM module, |
| points and how they should fit to Brazilian business | | | | integrated with Sales Order Processing, plus Microsoft |
| requirementso Supply Chain Management. Axapta | | | | Dynamics CRM is on the way to be integrated with |
| supports intra-company orders to fulfill external | | | | Axapta in 2006/2007 enabling you worldwide CRM |
| customer sales order, which allows you to design and | | | | department functionalityo USA situation. Currently - |
| implement flexible internal cost and profit allocation | | | | 2006 - Microsoft Dynamics/Microsoft Business |
| within your business group or enterprise. Also Axapta | | | | Solutions has its Fargo, ND facility (famous Great |
| supports the seamless link between Service module | | | | Plains Software Dynamics and later on Microsoft |
| (repair, preventive maintenance, damage estimation, | | | | Great Plains) to "localize" Axapta financials and |
| etc) and on-demand manufacturing order | | | | humane resources module to US and Canadian |
| (manufacturing module). Plus nice Axapta flexibility | | | | marketo Europe. German, Dutch, French, Spanish, |
| feature is Axapta business logics exposure via web | | | | Italian, Russian markets have Axapta localized. |
| services, which in turn allows repair crew technician | | | | Axapta also supports Unicode - Chinese & |
| to enter replacement parts list into mobile devise and | | | | Japanese characters supporto Multinational Company. |
| transmit the order to Axapta server via cellular | | | | International Manager is typically speaking English, |
| media. This also opens door for barcoding and | | | | probably some Spanish or German. The priority for |
| warehouse management automation\o Manufacturing. | | | | international manager is reporting clarity and |
| Historically manufacturing ERP is divided into two | | | | transaction level audit (when required). Axapta |
| types: Discrete and Process manufacturing. Discrete | | | | supports multi-language and seamless transaction |
| manufacturing, where you expect fixed number of | | | | audit. We would like to stress that for multinational |
| manufactured items from fixed number of | | | | corporation preferably ERP is the one, coming from |
| components, labor and machine time is traditionally | | | | world-wide ERP vendors, such as SAP, Oracle, |
| better automated than process manufacturing, where | | | | Microsoft to address Brazilian subsidiary control |
| you do not expect exact outcome: food processing, | | | | questionso Axapta Business Portal. Having three tiers |
| beverages, mining, oil refinery, etc. You should expect | | | | architecture, Axapta allows you as a developer to |
| excellent discrete manufacturing from Axapta as well | | | | enable business logic object exposure via web |
| as very good process manufacturing via some third | | | | service in a simple MS Visual Studio.Net procedure. |
| party add-ons and custom improvements. Adding into | | | | This in turn gives Axapta additional advantage and |
| consideration integration with Supply Chain | | | | flexibility on the Business Portal web exposure level in |
| Management gives you very flexible and cost | | | | comparison to such "legacy" products as Microsoft |
| efficient manufacturing automation. On the top of | | | | Dynamics GP Great Plains or Microsoft Dynamics NAV |
| this - Axapta has flexible and intuitive Product | | | | Navision. |
| Configurator module to enable custom manufacturing, | | | | |