What's new in AX 2012, Flash news - 5

What are the USPs of AX 2012 : (Again, this is my view and tried my best to be unbiased)

 

1.       Centralized customer and vendor payments.

·         Organizations that include multiple legal entities can create and manage payments by using a legal entity that handles all payments. A legal entity that is used for centralized payments saves time. The same transaction does not have to be entered in multiple legal entities, and the following processes for cross-company payments are streamlined: payment proposals, settlements, modification of open transactions, and modification of closed transactions.

2.       Multi-company planning, with minimized efforts in data entry of related intercompany transactions. (I will elaborate in a separate email, just to trigger “deep learning” on this topic)

3.       Number sequence can be done either at the global level or at the legal entity level. In AX 2009, the number sequence is only possible for the individual company.

4.       Global address book is shared across the legal entities. Hence, the addresses of customer, vendor, employee are shared. Thus redundancy/duplication of addresses have been avoided.

5.       Introduction of step consumption functionality in BOM Lines, has made the BOM maintenance easier(I will explain this in a separate email)

6.       Tighter integration and support for discrete, process & Lean Kanban – Now, all these available are out-of-the-box.

7.       Performing CTP (Capable To Promise) calculation at the order entry level. (Note - CTP is relating to Lean manufacturing and hence CTP is not possible for discrete and process manufacturing scenarios)

8.       Work flow configuration in AX 2012

·         The user interface has been improved a lot. In fact, it is appealing now, with the use of drag and drop future. You can drag and drop the conditional decisions, manual decisions and so on. (Please, See the screen shot below.)

·         Work flow can be enabled for any form in AX 2012. You can read more on how to enable the forms for work flow configuration from the link - http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc602813.aspx  

 

Acronym/Vocabulary :

USP – Unique Selling Preposition

Out-of-the-box – Standard functionality

 

Note 1: To be on the safer side, I just termed this as “partial list” (in the subject line).

Note 2: I have not covered the Finance related improvements completely.