Discrete Manufacturing – Industrial Equipment Manufacturers for Dynamics AX

Discrete manufacturing and distribution businesses are associated with output which is individually countable, can be identifiable by serial numbers, and is measurable in distinct units rather than by weight or volume.

Industrial Equipment Manufacturing for Dynamics AX delivers an end to end single business solution to makers of "big ticket" items including:

• High Tech Machinery
• Commercial and OEM Machinery & Parts
• Special and Large Machinery
• Oil, Gas and Mining Machinery

The solution enables Industrial Equipment and Manufacturing business to streamline their practices to manage one or more of the following processes as required:

• Product Design & Selection - Integrate your business applications with web based customer collaborative Product Data Management (PDM), Computer-Aided Design (CAD) software integration & Product Lifecycle Management (PLM)
  • Manage and reduce research and development (R&D) costs by increasing insight into R&D projects.
  • Create and manage both simple and complex bids and quotations
  • Master complex engineer-to-order processes.
  • Respond quickly and efficiently to your clients' demands by integrating engineering change management into the supply chain.
  • Focus more on product-centric planning and execution instead of everyday tasks and become proactive rather than reactive
• Product Sourcing – Manage sourcing of end product and component manufacturers locally and globally
• Manufacture / Import – Manage both ‘In and Outsourced’ assembly or project based manufacturing with associated lean and quality control requirements, locally and overseas
• Product Delivery and / or Installation – Manage delivery and installation of equipment / product where needed
• Customer Service - Provide strong customer service, product service, maintenance and support.
• Additional 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.
  • 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.

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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