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Industry Profile
Automotive, Truck and Equipment businesses associated with a single or combination focus of importer / distributor, dealer, fleet management, rental company, workshops, transporters, and PDI stations.
Automotive, Truck and Equipment – Importers, Rental and Fleet
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Industry Profile –Automotive, Truck and Equipment businesses associated with a single or combination focus of importer / distributor, dealer, fleet management, rental company, workshops, transporters, and PDI stations.
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Industry Practice - Systems Advisers Group’s Automotive, Truck and Equipment Practice is a dedicated focus group providing market leading know how, people and solutions to this industry.
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Passenger vehicles |
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Motor Cycles |
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Boats |
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Commercial Vehicles |
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Construction & Heavy Equipment |
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Cranes |
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Forklifts |
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Quarry Equipment / Screen Crushers |
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Agricultural Equipment and machines |
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Machines |
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Industrial Equipment and machines |
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In fact this is extended to any business wanting to keep track of or manage devices / assets (anything with a serial number), warranties, spare parts, service and rental agreements.
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Systems Advisers Group’s Automotive, Truck and Equipment Practice services will help you maximize your business success through a combination of expertise, methodologies, tools, and certified staff. Our offerings span all phases of your solution life cycle, from IT planning to software implementation to training and after sales services.
Systems Advisers Group helps you to align your IT and business strategies; get your software up and running fast; and keep it operating at a high level through continued engagement, discussion and advice from your Industry Practice Principal and team.
Systems Advisers Group’s practice aims at being the trusted advisor of our clients. To ensure we provide customers with current ‘Best Practice’ and know how, our people are from the industry, immersed in the industry and speak your language. Our approach is based on the idea of addressing IT issues on business terms with the following service set for local and global businesses:
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Business Analysis Services |
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Management Consulting Services |
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Project Management Services |
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Solutions Implementation |
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Development Services |
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Follow-up Services |
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Our customers have direct access to our practice consultants and team on demand.
Through our web service, our customers have real-time access to project information.
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Automotive Importers and Dealers
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Our market leading Microsoft Dynamics solutions and in depth industry know how and solutions will enable Automotive, Importer and Dealer businesses to streamline practices to better manage one or more of the following processes as required:
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OEM relations – Manage vehicle, parts and warranty orders and relations with vehicle manufacturers |
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Sea and land transporters – Manage freight, shipment and landed costing processes. |
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Pre Delivery Inspection – At the wharf, bonded store, third party or your own warehouse / service station.
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Authorities – Manage vehicle compliance, registration and other authority requirements. |
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Dealer relations including vehicle and parts sales – Receive dealer orders, vehicle and parts sales and full warranty management from dealer through to OEM. Dealer portal further enables dealers to order vehicles and parts online, submit warranty claims online |
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Workshop relations including parts and service ¬ - Importer workshops and service technicians assist dealers with authorised service requirements |
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Warranty management and portal – Enables dealers to submit claims with a full importer defined workflow and authorisation process. |
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Customer Service – Manage customer service levels with surveys, follow ups, efficient service |
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Rental Agreements – Manage a fleet of long and short term rental vehicles as a pure rental fleet or loan car for service operations. |
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Integration Platform – Integrate data with manufacturers and dealers to realise large efficiency gains |
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Additional Dynamics AX foundation modules – form the foundation on which the above industry modules are delivered |
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Finance – Full financial suite of modules for General Ledger, Receivables, Payables, Bank with electronic banking, Expense and Credit Card Management, Property and Fixed Assets including multi company, multi-currency, intercompany and consolidation features |
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Trade & Logistics –Inventory, Warehouse Management, Procurement, Requisition, Request for Quotation and Sales Modules |
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Production, Shop Floor Control, Product Configurator and Master Planning for material and capacity management |
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Project Accounting – For project based production including web timesheet |
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Customer Relationship Management – With sales force automation for management of contacts, leads, opportunities and quotes. Marketing automation enables one to plan and track marketing and telemarketing campaigns |
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Human Resources and Payroll |
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Questionnaire - Build and analyse questionnaires for virtually any requirement including customer service, surveys, marketing, HR interviews, reviews and tests. |
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System wide features – include native Microsoft Active Directory, MS Office, MS SQL Database, MS Business Intelligence and MS SharePoint Server integration. Familiarity and ease of use built on the Microsoft platform and Office look and feel. Add in alerts, workflow, document management, security through to record level with a low risk adaptive environment to deliver the world’s leading mid-market ERP solution as acknowledge by Gartner Group in their last two surveys of this segment.
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With your company facing stiff competition and the pressure to reduce margins, IT solutions must deliver much more than functional capabilities. Automotive Importers, Dealers and Rental Company’s business models need to adapt rapidly to market demand and you need the agility to respond quickly to new developments and maintain the competitive edge without being limited by system constraints.
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The Automotive Importer and Dealer solution for Microsoft Dynamics AX offers proven, highly adaptable capabilities for meeting highly specific industry needs, including increased customer demand for fast response and improved service, streamlined processes, and internal procedures that create a truly lean environment.
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Reputation
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| The solution has a solid track record of satisfied users. They quickly understood the solution, where to find data and how to act on that information. The similarity with Microsoft’s Office package (Excel, Word, Outlook) helps users to navigate the system intuitively. The logic in all modules is common, allowing users to track data changes in the system and between modules |
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Click for Product Information
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Contact Systems Advisers Group for a solution brochure and to discover more about how Microsoft Dynamics AX can help your company reduce costs and meet client demands.
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Case Studies
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Importers, Dealers and Renters of Machinery, Commercial & Construction Equipment and Trucks
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Our market leading Microsoft Dynamics solutions and in depth industry know how and solutions will enable Importers, Dealers and Renters of Machinery, Commercial & Construction Equipment and Trucks to streamline practices to better manage one or more of the following processes as required:
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OEM relations – Manage vehicle, parts and warranty orders and relations with vehicle manufacturers |
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Sea and land transporters – Manage freight, shipment and landed costing processes. |
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Pre Delivery Inspection – At the wharf, bonded store, third party or your own warehouse / service station. |
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Authorities – Manage vehicle compliance, registration and other authority requirements. |
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Device Management – Manage single or multiple product brands. |
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Dealer relations including vehicle and parts sales – Receive dealer orders, vehicle and parts sales and full warranty management from dealer through to OEM. Dealer portal further enables dealers to order vehicles and parts online, submit warranty claims online |
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Warehouse and Parts Management ¬– Extensive functionality to manage your warehouses and spare parts and accessories. Item creation from external supplier lists and automatic pricing. |
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Workshop relations including parts and service ¬ - Importer workshops and service technicians assist dealers with authorised service requirements |
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Warranty management and portal – Enables dealers to submit claims with a full importer defined workflow and authorisation process. |
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Customer Service – Manage customer service levels with surveys, follow ups, efficient service |
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Rental Agreements – Manage a fleet of long and short term rental vehicles as a pure rental fleet or loan car for service operations. |
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Fleet Management – Extensive functionality to manage your fleet including billing. service contracts, maintenance contracts, loan contracts etc. |
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Integration Platform – Integrate data with manufacturers and dealers to realise large efficiency gains |
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Additional Dynamics AX foundation modules – form the foundation on which the above industry modules are delivered |
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Finance – Full financial suite of modules for General Ledger, Receivables, Payables, Bank with electronic banking, Expense and Credit Card Management, Property and Fixed Assets including multi company, multi-currency, intercompany and consolidation features |
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Trade & Logistics –Inventory, Warehouse Management, Procurement, Requisition, Request for Quotation and Sales Modules |
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Production, Shop Floor Control, Product Configurator and Master Planning for material and capacity management |
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Project Accounting – For project based production including web timesheet |
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Customer Relationship Management – With sales force automation for management of contacts, leads, opportunities and quotes. Marketing automation enables one to plan and track marketing and telemarketing campaigns |
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Human Resources and Payroll |
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Questionnaire - Build and analyse questionnaires for virtually any requirement including customer service, surveys, marketing, HR interviews, reviews and tests. |
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System wide features – include native Microsoft Active Directory, MS Office, MS SQL Database, MS Business Intelligence and MS SharePoint Server integration. Familiarity and ease of use built on the Microsoft platform and Office look and feel. Add in alerts, workflow, document management, security through to record level with a low risk adaptive environment to deliver the world’s leading mid-market ERP solution as acknowledge by Gartner Group in their last two surveys of this segment.
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With your company facing stiff competition and the pressure to reduce margins, IT solutions must deliver much more than functional capabilities. Machinery, Commercial & Construction Equipment and Truck Importers, Dealers and Rental Company’s business models need to adapt rapidly to market demand and you need the agility to respond quickly to new developments and maintain the competitive edge without being limited by system constraints.
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The Machinery, Commercial & Construction Equipment and Truck Importer, Dealer and Rental solution for Microsoft Dynamics AX is part of Dynamics AX offering customers a single fully integrated system built on one platform with one interface. Customer needs and expectations are exceeded through proven, highly adaptable capabilities for meeting highly specific industry needs, including increased customer demand for fast response and improved service, streamlined processes, and internal procedures that create a truly lean environment.
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Reputation
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The solution has a solid track record of satisfied users. They quickly understood the solution, where to find data and how to act on that information. The similarity with Microsoft’s Office package (Excel, Word, Outlook) helps users to navigate the system intuitively. The logic in all modules is common, allowing users to track data changes in the system and between modules.
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Click for Product Information
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Contact Systems Advisers Group for a solution brochure and to discover more about how Microsoft Dynamics AX can help your company reduce costs and meet client demands.
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Case Studies
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Fleet Management, Rental and Contract Hire
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Our market leading Microsoft Dynamics solutions and in depth industry know how and solutions will enable Fleet Management, Contract hire, Rental companies and Public or Private sector organisations operating medium to large numbers of vehicles and machinery to streamline practices to better manage one or more of the following processes as required:
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Device and Asset Management – Extensive functionality to manage your fleet, single or multi-brand. Creation of device master cards via configurator and purchase order. Make full use of powerful procurement processes. Track all mounted equipment and accessories, by device. Interface with OEM and other partners, including authorities. Seamless integration with the Asset management module. |
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Incident Management – Extensive functionality to manage your cases such as accidents, fines and other incidents. The IDMS case module encapsulates all tasks associated with an incident. Pre-defined job lists guide your employees through the tasks needed to manage the incident, ensuring that nothing is missed. |
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Preventative Maintenance – Limit fleet down time by managing upcoming maintenance and inspections. Make sure you know what needs to be done and when it needs to be completed. Set up maintenance plans based on simple yet flexible recurrence rules. Create service orders, manage warranties, perform recalls etc. Manage multiple workshops, utilise time slot reservations and have full visibility over hours recorded. Use operation codes with flat rates and job lists for standard tasks. |
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Contract Management – Includes extensive functionality to manage your fleet service , maintenance and loan contracts . Keep track of contracts and ensure billing accuracy. Handle contract documents. Tailor contract products and services to suit your customers‘ needs. End to end functionality on lease contracts including interest rate calculation, price indexing and more. |
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Short and Long Term Rentals – Plan, reserve, manage and collect on your short and long term rentals. Flexible pricing structure based on rental models and classes. |
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Driver and Operator Management – Keep track of operators and drivers of vehicles. Manage licenses, skills, training, professional experience and other employee related data. Get warnings on expiration dates of licenses. |
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Warehouse and Parts Management ¬– Extensive functionality to manage your warehouses and spare parts and accessories. Item creation from external supplier lists and automatic pricing. |
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Expense Management and Statistics ¬ - Full life cycle statistics displayed as totals or per usage unit. All expenses can be linked to a particular device and contract for analytical purposes. Benchmark the profit performance of different brands and models. |
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Sales and Marketing – Use the systems wholesale and retail functionality for de-fleeting, fully integrated with the Dynamics AX supply chain functionality. Track vehicle movements, pre-delivery inspection, pricing, trade-ins and inventory management. |
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Salary Sacrificing – Manage employee deductions with advanced functionality on behalf of companies fleet management services are provided to or for internal purposes. |
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Rental Agreements – Manage a fleet of long and short term rental vehicles as a pure rental fleet or loan car for service operations. |
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Analytics – Extensive functionality to help you analyse your business. We have the expertise to help you make the most of your information. |
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Web Readiness - Everything you ever wanted to do on the web suddenly becomes so much easier, with included web functionality. The web is a natural part of the system, not an extra solution. Reach out to customers, dealers, workshops, suppliers and involve them in your business processes, saving you time and money. |
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Integration Platform – Integrate data with manufacturers and dealers to realise large efficiency gains |
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IT Department - Microsoft Dynamics™ AX and IDMS Fleet are version controlled applications, meaning that new versions will be made available for your company on a regular basis. Upgrade work is kept to a minimum. IDMS Fleet follows the release plan of Microsoft Dynamics™ AX and is a Microsoft Certified Industry solution for Microsoft Dynamics™ AX. The certification process is thorough whereby Microsoft engages independent third party evaluators who appraise architecture, coding, scalability, upgradeability and documentation as part of the process. |
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Additional Dynamics AX foundation modules – form the foundation on which the above industry modules are delivered |
|
Finance – Full financial suite of modules for General Ledger, Receivables, Payables, Bank with electronic banking, Expense and Credit Card Management, Property and Fixed Assets including multi company, multi-currency, intercompany and consolidation features |
|
Trade & Logistics –Inventory, Warehouse Management, Procurement, Requisition, Request for Quotation and Sales Modules |
|
Production, Shop Floor Control, Product Configurator and Master Planning for material and capacity management |
|
Project Accounting – For project based production including web timesheet |
|
Customer Relationship Management – With sales force automation for management of contacts, leads, opportunities and quotes. Marketing automation enables one to plan and track marketing and telemarketing campaigns |
|
Human Resources and Payroll |
|
Questionnaire - Build and analyse questionnaires for virtually any requirement including customer service, surveys, marketing, HR interviews, reviews and tests. |
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System wide features – include native Microsoft Active Directory, MS Office, MS SQL Database, MS Business Intelligence and MS SharePoint Server integration. Familiarity and ease of use built on the Microsoft platform and Office look and feel. Add in alerts, workflow, document management, security through to record level with a low risk adaptive environment to deliver the world’s leading mid-market ERP solution as acknowledge by Gartner Group in their last two surveys of this segment.
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With your company facing stiff competition and the pressure to reduce margins, IT solutions must deliver much more than functional capabilities. Fleet Management, Rental and Contract Hire Company’s business models need to adapt rapidly to market demand and you need the agility to respond quickly to new developments and maintain the competitive edge without being limited by system constraints.
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The Fleet Management, Rental and Contract Hire solution for Microsoft Dynamics AX offers proven, highly adaptable capabilities for meeting highly specific industry needs, including increased customer demand for fast response and improved service, streamlined processes, and internal procedures that create a truly lean environment.
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Reputation
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The solution has a solid track record of satisfied users. They quickly understood the solution, where to find data and how to act on that information. The similarity with Microsoft’s Office package (Excel, Word, Outlook) helps users to navigate the system intuitively. The logic in all modules is common, allowing users to track data changes in the system and between modules.
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Click for Product Information
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Contact Systems Advisers Group for a solution brochure and to discover more about how Microsoft Dynamics AX can help your company reduce costs and meet client demands.
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