Microsoft Dynamics AX (formerly Microsoft Business Solution Axapta) , a product for:

∙ All-in-one solution
∙ Pure Microsoft User Interface (UI)
∙ Multi national
∙ Object oriented
∙ 3-tier
∙ High ROI for the customer
∙ Scalability
∙ Connectivity
∙ The international solution

Axapta offers a huge array of modules, which are further divided into product levels that allow the prospect to purchase a customized level of functionality (and also price) to fit the business needs and focus.
With all modules installed, Axapta provides well over 200 reports. The reports are all very professional and can be previewed, printed, saved to file or e-mailed. While many reports from enterprise-level applications are difficult to decipher, Axapta's reports are attractive and formatted for readability.

Below is a list of the modules available in Axapta:

Finance

∙ General Ledger, including three dimensions
∙ Accounts receivable, accounts payable, debtors and creditors
∙ Cash flow management
∙ Multi currency handling
∙ Fixed Assets
∙ Journals with approval procedures
∙ Consolidation and inter-company accounts
∙ Audit trail
∙ Validation

Trade & Logistics

∙ Inventory, stock-taking and item locations
∙ Five inventory dimensions for exact stock-location of items
∙ Direct purchase creation from sales order
∙ Standard cost price
∙ Tools for tracking batch and serial numbers
∙ ABC analysis
∙ Comprehensive bill of materials (BOM) management
∙ Full graphical suite for designing and maintaining bills of
materials using drag-and-drop technology and Multiple
versions of same bill of materials with Formula-based
calculation of bill of material consumption

Master Planning

∙ Master planning - Forecast scheduling
∙ Master scheduling
∙ Net requirements
∙ Planned purchases and production orders
∙ Action and Futures messages
∙ Coverage per warehouse
∙ Seasonal-controlled safety stock

Warehouse management

∙ Item registration and placement
∙ Automatic location selection
∙ Warehouse zones
∙ Shipments
∙ Transport
∙ Pallet types and transport
∙ Store zones and areas
∙ Chaotic storage

Production

∙ Split productions
∙ Measurement formulas
∙ Constant and variable waste
∙ Sub-productions, Sub purchase orders and Subcontractor
monitoring
∙ Forward and backward scheduling
∙ Routes, Route versions and Route approval and Route network
∙ Operations and Secondary operations
∙ Queue, Setup, Run and transport time
∙ Finite and infinite capacity
∙ Multiple resources per operation
∙ Detail capacity scheduling
∙ Gantt scheduling
∙ Task group, sequence, bottleneck scheduling
∙ Job control & monitoring

Projects

∙ Project types Internal Projects, Time and material, Fixed price
∙ Project hierarchy structure
∙ Item-consumption, cost and revenue registration on projects
∙ Gantt charts for showing project plans
∙ Invoicing of hours, item, cost, revenue and milestone payments

CRM

Sales force automation, Marketing automation and Customer service with the following features:
∙ Sales and sales management
∙ Executive information
∙ Time management
∙ Marketing
∙ Telemarketing/Tele sales
∙ Enterprise portals
∙ E-commerce (Customer self service)
∙ ERP integration
∙ Data synchronization

Shop Floor Control

∙ Paperless environment
∙ Registration and analysis of non-productive time
∙ Exact time consumption analysis on jobs
∙ On-line job registration
∙ Automatic pay generating
∙ Work center / employee productivity overview
∙ Job- and team bundling
∙ Flex- and overtime

Human resource management

∙ Overview of the organization
∙ Project groups
∙ Overview of jobs / positions
∙ Skill mapping
∙ Development plans
∙ Loans
∙ Recruitment
∙ Course administration

Knowledge Management

∙ Transaction based
∙ KPI (budgets vs. reality)
∙ Knowledge statistics
∙ Strategic plans supported by actions, milestones, risk analysis
∙ Action / response
∙ Diverted actions
∙ Electronic questionnaire distribution / answer statistics
∙ Extended doc. Archiving

Cost accounting

∙ Fixed cost management
∙ Expense Distribution Sheet
∙ Comparison between real and budget costs
∙ Short term income statement on operations
∙ Cost transparency through cost centers

Product Builder:

∙ Create flexible product models with an easy to use interface for easier configuration
∙ Empower sales people to configure products for demonstration purposes and increase cooperation between sales, production and purchasing
∙ Build stronger relationships with customers and vendors by allowing them to customize or configure their own products using the Web