What is the purpose of the product number? This is a common question since the product number is a new concept in Dynamics AX 2012. The main purpose is to have a single, unified identification of a product throughout the entire organization. In...

If you are looking for information about inventory close and reconciliation, please check out Tracy Taylor’s post on the AX Support blog . Enjoy!

By using the Item arrival journal in the Inventory and warehouse management module in AX2012 you can ship and receive a transfer order using the same pallet. In addition to the normal criteria that are used to validate pallet moves, the use of one...

Introduction Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 introduces role-based security, which makes security easier to manage. Relations between security roles, duties and privileges are complex. However, you can apply a tool to represent these relations in a grid...

Introduction Those of you who know the Shop floor control module in Dynamics AX 2009 will notice that it is not a separate module in Dynamics AX 2012. This post gives you a quick overview of how to access the Shop floor control functionality in Dynamics...

Introduction In this blog entry we will provide guidelines for the use of new and modified product-item data management services. Product-item data management services The following services have been created or modified in order to enable manipulation...

Some of the new functionality that is created in the Dynamics AX development cycle brings about so much feedback from customers and partners that we decide to back port the features to previous versions of Dynamics AX products. The back ported features...

With Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 new capabilities of selling and procuring products, decoupled from inventory control, have been introduced. The purpose of this post is to describe the difference between stocked and non-stocked products of type service...

This posting describes some of the enhancements of the WMS functionality that were added in Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012. Storing and updating the requested ship date on shipments The WMSShipment table now stores the latest date where the shipment...

Operational Sites in Microsoft Dynamics AX 2009 As companies grow and operations are distributed across multiple geographic locations, there is a growing desire for shared business processes alongside processes that are tailored to the needs of specific...

The Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 SCM code upgrade white papers have been available for download on MSDN. Enjoy! Implementing InventTrans Refactoring - Discusses the refactoring of the InventTrans table and common design patterns. Also discusses how to...

A number of questions have been asked thought this blog about shipments and the shipment reservation logic. Some of the answers to these questions include information about aspects of these key system components that might be of general interest to our...

Introduction No doubt, the InventTrans table is one of the most important tables in the inventory engine within Microsoft Dynamics AX 2009. It stores inventory transactions, which include a lot of the business data that is crucial to the functionality...

In this post, we will cover easy-to-do modifications that can be done to Role Center pages and do not require special development skills. The goal is to explain how to add a value to a Role Center page by changing to best suit your business needs. There...

Costing versions and trade agreements Assume that you want to define the costing versions per item for two sites with different sales and purchase prices. The first step is to create the planned costs for the sites and then you activate the costs....

The Microsoft Dynamics AX Technical Newsgroups are excellent sources for technical and application related information about Dynamics AX. We encourage you to use the newsgroups when looking for advice or answers for question on Dynamics AX. During...

Introduction This post provides details on how to set up AX 2009 to enable inbound pallet transports. The description includes an overview of: The inventory breakdown setup The item setup for Warehouse management Item receipts and processing...

Introduction In Microsoft Dynamics AX 2009, the Arrival overview form is introduced to improve the overview of items expected to arrive as incoming goods. The new feature provides an overview of all expected incoming items and arrivals can be initialized...

In AX 2009, the task of refilling picking locations was automated and improved. The main idea behind the new functionality is that, if required, processes that impact quantities at picking locations should activate a refill. This blog post describes...

We have received extensive feedback on previous blog postings about the outbound processes within Inventory management in Microsoft Dynamics AX. Many readers have requested information on how to interact with Microsoft Dynamics AX via .NET Business Connector...

Overview The purpose of this post is to present the major changes and new functionality that was introduced for sales and transfer order picking in AX 2009. The aim and the idea behind these changes is to move towards a single system for picking...

Introduction This article describes the setup process of the outbound flow for external shipment in Microsoft Dynamics AX 2009. The process itself has already been described here , so the focus of this article is the settings and adjustments that can...

Introduction The WMS (Warehouse Managements System) encompasses the core components within average Microsoft Dynamics AX installations that are implemented to manage and run world class warehouses. The WMS functionality is enabled by the configuration...

Quick abstract As many of you may know, with the latest release of Dynamics Ax 2009, the new Quality Management System (QMS) module is available within the Inventory Management Area, formerly the Fullscope TQM (Total Quality Management) solution, which...