Showing posts with label Dynamics ERP. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Dynamics ERP. Show all posts

Friday, November 2, 2012

Dynamics AX2012 R2 Release


Microsoft Dynamics is all set for Dynamics AX2012 R2 release. With this enhanced release lot of exciting features will be added to the product.
As per the details featured in the technical conference this release will have stronger focus on new functionality with industries specific & administrative processes.
Few of the major enhancement includes

1) Industry Focused Enhancements
Manufacturing 
Improve manufacturing operations for process manufacturing.  Like
-          New capability for management of potency, traceability and product batch sequencing to help process manufacturing
-          Potency management enables management of the concentration of an active ingredient through the entire manufacturing process.
-          In addition, the improvement of traceability where important attributes are generated and captured during the manufacturing process can also be transferred to subsequent lots.
Retail
Many enchantments like
-          You can manage your assortments across channels in your retail operations.
-          New multi- and cross-channel capabilities for retail organizations, including catalogue management, cross-channel workflows, and integrated sales channel management will include a new “out of the box” web storefront offering based on the new version of SharePoint 2013.

Public Sector
Many enchantments like
-          An easy / simple financial budgeting process in public sector organizations by combining the power of Microsoft Excel with the power of the workflow engine inside of Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012.
-          New capabilities in budget formulation with workflow approvals, flexible tracking, and reporting.
-          Will also enable complex budgetary requirements using Microsoft Excel as well as integration with financial budget transactions, position and payroll data to enable budgetary control.

Professional Services
Many enchantments like
-          Improved utilization of resources across your organization.
-          Improvements in the intercompany scheduling capability of project resources will specifically benefit services organization with resources and projects across multiple entities.

2) Improved Business Insights End Users
This ranges from easy operational reporting, to measuring business performance through Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) and benchmarking as well as to providing deep analysis and actionable insights powered by new rich visualizations technology. Specifically, in this release the focus is
  • New and updated KPI content
    • Where we deliver a set of new and updated KPIs that will come with the SQL BI cubes shipped with the release. These KPIs will surface on the different role centers.
  • Enabling the usage of the new Power view technology
    • Introduced in Microsoft SQL Server 2012. This will help users to discover new insights through a highly interactive and familiar data visualization technology.
3) Increase Global Reach And Simplify International Operations 
  • Microsoft Dynamics AX with Increased the global reach
    • New localization for 11 new markets (Brazil, Czech Republic, China, Estonia, Hungary, India, Japan, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, and Russia),
    • Extending the reach for Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 to support 36 localizations worldwide.
4) Simplified Application Lifecycle – An Easy Way To Manage Application
This will add the following key benefits
-          Simplified single instance international ERP deployment scenarios up to simplifying setup and functional implementation with new and improved lifecycle services.
-          Parallel to this release existing lifecycle services update (including Rapid Start services) 
-          And new services addition
Some other examples:
  • Code Analyzer will help analyze the performance of custom code based on rules in the design phase of an extension by customers or partners.
  • Data Migration Framework will support import, export and migration of data to/from Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 in the deployment phase. It will cover over 20 scenarios including customer, vendor, product, employee, BOM, open sales and purchase order data, which can be extended by partners and customers.
  • Diagnostics Framework will assist by analyzing data collected from the installation’s servers based on rules in the maintenance phase of your Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 environment(s).
At the end it is quite exciting with the list of such enhancements.

This is scheduled to be released by 1st Dec 2012.
Happy Consulting!

Sunday, September 16, 2012

Dynamics AX 2012 – Vendor Prepayments on Purchase Order



Vendor’s prepayment in procurement process is a very common practice and in such scenario an organization should be able to track purchase order & their prepayments.

Earlier in Microsoft Dynamics AX 2009, it was not possible to make a prepayment related to a purchase order and these were always two separate manual processes. (There was no transaction link between the prepayment for a purchase order and the actual purchase order)

With Dynamics AX 2012 it has been made very easy & simple with prepayment functionality.


Vendor prepayment process is explained in detail by Sandeep Chaudhury on his blog in a detail article. Check it out HERE.

Happy Consulting!

Wednesday, September 12, 2012

Microsoft Dynamics GP 2013(Beta) Available For Download




Microsoft Dynamics GP 2013 has been released to Beta.  This new release includes so many exciting features like
-          Dynamics GP web client,
-          125+ functionality enhancements and
-          Extending integration Dynamics GP with the Microsoft stack.
Lots of technology advancements including “making Dynamics GP more efficient for cloud deployments” with Multi- Tenancy.

All Microsoft Dynamics GP partners can download the beta Located Here.
You can also check the list of feature with details (PPT) on official blog of Dynamics GP Here.

Note:
This Beta release is for ISV's and Partners for preliminary testing and does NOT include:

1. No upgrade is available from this release to the RTM release of Microsoft Dynamics GP 2013. The only upgrade support is for the selected live Technical Adoption Program Customers.
2. Business Portal for Microsoft Dynamics GP 2013
3. eConnect SDK is included on the image, but is not updated for Microsoft Dynamics GP 2013
4. Web Services SDK is found on the image, but is not updated for Microsoft Dynamics GP 2013
5. Workflow SDK is found on the image, but is not updated for Microsoft Dynamics GP 2013

Download & enjoy the new experience !

Tuesday, May 11, 2010

Managing Microsoft Dynamics Implementations Certification Exam MB5-858


Managing Microsoft Dynamics Implementations Exam MB5-858 for Sure Step 2010, MB5-858 is available on Prometric. 

This certification exam measures your ability to understand Microsoft Dynamics Sure Step as a structured engagement methodology for Dynamics implementations. This exam measures the working knowledge that the candidate has of Microsoft Dynamics Sure Step.

As per SPA published at Microsoft (https://partner.microsoft.com/global/productssolutions/dynamics/solsprovideragreement)
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Partners must employ or contract with at least one individual who passes the Microsoft Dynamics methodology implementation exam, Managing Microsoft Dynamics Implementations MB5-858, to be authorized for any Microsoft Dynamics solution. This exam is available from April 15, 2010.

Till now what I know is the exam will have 40-70 questions with the time of 140-160 minutes. The basic skill set weight for the exam is as follows
Prepare to Manage a Microsoft Dynamics Implementation with Microsoft Dynamics Sure Step (47.14%)
  • Identify key goals and pre/post activities associated with Microsoft Dynamics Sure Step decision accelerators and the Diagnostic phase. 
  • Given a scenario, identify the appropriate Microsoft Dynamics Sure Step project type and the related key activities.
  • Identify Microsoft Dynamics Sure Step cross phase processes and the key activities and deliverables associated with each cross phase.
  • Given a scenario, identify the appropriate Microsoft Dynamics Sure Step documentation.
  • Identify Microsoft Dynamics Sure Step optimization offerings.
  • Project Management Library.
Manage a Microsoft Dynamics Implementation with Microsoft Sure Step (41.43%)
  • Given a scenario, identify and complete the appropriate Microsoft Dynamics Sure Step documentation.
  • Complete the Microsoft Dynamics Sure Step Analysis phase.
  • Create a Microsoft Dynamics Sure Step project.
  • Gather and document customer business requirements by using the Microsoft Dynamics Sure Step FRD.
  • Given a scenario, identify how to use Design documents in the Microsoft Dynamics Sure Step Design phase.
  • Identify and complete key test activities in a Microsoft Dynamics Sure Step Development phase.
  • Identify key activities of the Microsoft Dynamics Sure Step Deployment phase.
  • Manage change, risks, and issues by using Microsoft Dynamics Sure Step tools and templates.
  • Conduct a Microsoft Dynamics Sure Step Tollgate Review.
  • Create a Microsoft Dynamics Sure Step Go-Live Cutover Plan.
  • Project Management Library.
Manage Post Implementation Activities with Microsoft Dynamics Sure Step (11.43%)
  • Given a scenario, identify appropriate Microsoft Dynamics Sure Step Quality Management activities.
  • Given a scenario, recommend appropriate Microsoft Dynamics Sure Step Post Go-Live Support activities.
  • Given a scenario, recommend appropriate Microsoft Dynamics Sure Step Performance Tuning and Optimization activities.
  • Identify the key tasks associated with closing out a Microsoft Dynamics Sure Step project.

You can check the detailed exam preparation guide on MBS here

Good luck.

Friday, January 29, 2010

Migrating FRx 6.7 Reports To Management Reporter


It’s an easy step by step process explained by Dynamics Corporate Performance Management Blog under their post “FRx 6.7 to Management Reporter Migration”. Have a look.

Happy Reporting. . .  . .

Management Reporter Server Installation


Just Check this post on “Dynamics Corporate Performance Management Blog”, they have explained in detail the process of installing Management Reporter Server.


check it out here.

Thursday, January 28, 2010

Management Reporter – A New Wave For Financial Reporting With Dynamics

I have got my copy of Management report downloaded today, and was excited to see the enhancement specially the following

-      SQL Server support for application databases
-      Navigation Pane ( With Support Of Folder For Report Organization)
-      Multi-tiered architecture with server side processing
-      Adding Logo( Images/Company Logo’s ) on Header & Footers of the reports
-      An Easy Step by Step Company Setup Process, which allows to make selection of entity rather than inputting the DB ID we used to do in FRx.


-      An Option To Have Additional Attributes as part of Chart Of Account ( with Standard Company Setup Wizard )
o    User Defined Fields
o    Analytical Accounting Codes ( Dynamics GP Financials with Analytical Accounts is currently not available, will be with future release )


These are not all, there are lot of other you can check the full details from Management Reporter Feature Document. There are some feature which is currently not part of the current release, but will be added to the future release.
FRx And Management Reporter:

-      As of now it appears that FRx will stop its life with Dynamics GP 10, whereas from Dynamics GP 2010 ( Ver. 11) Management report will replace FRx. ( Reference Link)
-      The beta release for Management Reporter will integrate with both GP "10" and GP "11", although please make note the final release version of Management Reporter will not integrate with GP "10".
-      Management Reporter Includes features of migration of report definitions from FRx 6.7 to Management Reporter. 
FRx
Management Report
Details
Report Designer
Report Designer

Report Viewer
Report Viewer

Report Manager
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Features Not under consideration by MS for future release.
WebPort
SharePoint Integration (WebPort replacement)
Features under consideration by MS for future release.
Spec Sets
Building Block Groups
Naming has been changed.
Currency Translation
Currency Translation
Features under consideration by MS for future release.
Export formulas to Excel
Export formulas to Excel
Features under consideration by MS for future release.
Output/Export to OLAP Cube
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Features Not under consideration by MS for future release.
Forecaster Integration
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Features under consideration by MS for future release.
This is all for the time being regarding Management reporter, will update more in coming posts.

Dynamics AX – Vendor Scoring In RFQ Analysis Process

Vendor scoring is one of the important aspect of the RFQ process in any organization. While we were working with our client requirement fo...