Dynamics AX Manufacturing R&D Team blog
The blog contains contributions from the AX R&D team on manufacturing covering topics like MRP, discrete, lean, & process manufacturing
Demand Forecasting: Performance influencers
In this blog post we will explain the key performance influences for the Demand Forecasting feature...
Author: Dennis Conrad Date: 07/12/2018
Product Configuration: What's new in 2018
In this post we will summarize what is new in Product configuration for Microsoft Dynamics 365 for...
Author: Dennis Conrad Date: 07/11/2018
Product Configuration: Performance with Z3
Introduction In the spring release of 2018 for Microsoft Dynamics 365 for Finance & Operations a...
Author: Dennis Conrad Date: 07/11/2018
Product Configuration: Multi-column dialog layout
In the spring release of 2018 for Microsoft Dynamics 365 for Finance & Operations, Multi-column...
Author: Dennis Conrad Date: 07/11/2018
New Flushing principle
This blog post describes a new flushing principle Available at location that was introduced in...
Author: JohanHoffmann Date: 10/17/2017
System requirements and Sales solution setup for Prospect to Cash Integration between Microsoft Dynamics 365 for Sales and for Finance and Operations, Enterprise Edition
This blog post includes the system requirements and Sales solution setup for Prospect to Cash...
Author: Christian Rytt Date: 08/03/2017
Using the Withdrawal kanban for raw material replenishment
A new feature that enables advanced warehouse processes for the Withdrawal Kanban has been released...
Author: JohanHoffmann Date: 07/11/2017
Cross docking from production orders to transfer orders
A new feature for cross-docking from a production or batch order to a transfer order has been...
Author: JohanHoffmann Date: 02/13/2017
Using the handheld device for reporting serial numbers as finished in production
Introduction A new flow for the handheld device has been released with KB article: 3148600. This...
Author: JohanHoffmann Date: 11/29/2016
Using the Work Policy for warehouse processes in production
Warehouse processes don’t always include warehouse work. By using the new warehouse work policy...
Author: JohanHoffmann Date: 09/21/2016
Use the hand-held device to register raw material consumption in production
With KB-3164415 a new mobile device work flow for registration of raw material consumption has been...
Author: JohanHoffmann Date: 08/16/2016
Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 Product Configuration : Enterprise Portal
In this blog post I will explain how on user interactions are handled by the product configuration...
Author: Dennis Conrad Date: 06/01/2016
Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 Product Configuration: Windows client processing
In this blog post I will elaborate on the processing of configuration models in Microsoft Dynamics...
Author: Dennis Conrad Date: 04/04/2016
Round up work for raw material picking to match the handling unit
This blog post describes the functionality of a new hofix that is released in the Microsoft...
Author: JohanHoffmann Date: 01/18/2016
Support for BOMs that includes items with different product dimensions of the same item
This blog post describes new functionality released with the Microsoft Knowledge base (KB) in...
Author: Christian Rytt Date: 12/22/2015
Reporting as finished with the option to mark the order as ended
This blog post describes a new hofix that is released in the Microsoft Knowledge base (KB) in...
Author: JohanHoffmann Date: 12/21/2015
Recommended settings for materials that acts as consumables in production
The core team has been engaged in a couple of requests about how to set up raw materials that acts...
Author: JohanHoffmann Date: 10/04/2015
New support for serial number registration in production
The hotfix in Microsoft Knowledge Base (KB) article 3093049, which is planned for release in...
Author: JohanHoffmann Date: 09/30/2015
Order picking from license plate locations
The hotfix in Microsoft Knowledge Base (KB) article 3093049, that is planned to be released...
Author: JohanHoffmann Date: 09/23/2015
Overproduction in Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012
With the introduction of the new warehouse management capabilities in Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 R3,...
Author: JohanHoffmann Date: 09/16/2015
Product Configuration Synchronous Execution
This blog post describes an new way of interacting synchronously from code with theConstraint-Based...
Author: Dennis Conrad Date: 04/09/2015
More about (dynamic) negative days
In short, negative days time fence represents the number of days you are willing to wait with...
Author: Roxana Cristina Diaconu Date: 02/19/2015
Product Configuration Performance : Solver strategy
This post is part of the series of posts explaining performance improvements introduced in...
Author: Dennis Conrad Date: 02/04/2015
Product Configuration Performance : Caching
This post is part of the series of posts explaining performance improvements introduced in...
Author: Dennis Conrad Date: 02/04/2015
Checklist for improving MRP performance - Part 2: How to setup planning parameters
If Master Planning (MRP) runtime is too long, here are a couple of simple things you can try in...
Author: Roxana Cristina Diaconu Date: 01/02/2015
Checklist for improving MRP performance - Part 1: How to run MRP
If Master Planning (MRP) runtime is too long, here are a couple of simple things you can try in...
Author: Roxana Cristina Diaconu Date: 12/29/2014
Generating put away work when reporting as finished from the Dynamics AX client
This new functionality is available with KB 2999768 and will be included in Microsoft Dynamics...
Author: JohanHoffmann Date: 09/22/2014
Setting up the production output location
This new functionality is available with KB 2995954 and will be included in Microsoft Dynamics...
Author: JohanHoffmann Date: 09/22/2014
Setting up the production input location
This new functionality is available with KB 2995227 and will be included in Microsoft Dynamics...
Author: JohanHoffmann Date: 09/22/2014
Improved process for generating put away work for production and batch orders in CU8
This new functionality is available with KB article 2988071 and will be included in Microsoft...
Author: JohanHoffmann Date: 09/12/2014
Support for Recycled By-products in AX 2012 R3 CU8
This new functionality is available with KB 2989470 / HF 2989470 and will be included in Microsoft...
Author: Christian Rytt Date: 09/04/2014
Lean manufacturing: Picking activities and kanban line events
When using Lean manufacturing in Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012, you can model production flows that use...
Author: Conrad Volkmann Date: 08/26/2014
Choosing the right coverage setting for when to Fulfill minimum
Why this blog post?Multiple people have asked how the four different options to Fulfill minimum...
Author: Christian Rytt Date: 07/03/2014
Microsoft Dynamics AX Production floor app is available in the Microsoft Windows App store
Along with Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 R3, Microsoft has released the Windows 8 Production floor app...
Author: FredrikHietala Date: 06/17/2014
'Demand forecasting in Dynamics AX 2012 R3' whitepaper available for download
Download the paper from https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=43128 if you want to...
Author: Roxana Cristina Diaconu Date: 06/06/2014
Product Configuration: Setting values based on system variables - example, current user ID
In this blog post we will describe how you can set valuesbased on the current user ID by leveraging...
Author: Dennis Conrad Date: 04/29/2014
Material availability check on in the kanban board for transfer jobs
One of the basic applications of kanbans is to replenish purchased material in kanban supermarkets...
Author: JohanHoffmann Date: 11/28/2013
Now available: Cumulative Update 7, featuring the product change case management
With the recent release of Cumulative Update 7 for Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 R2, the case...
Author: Conrad Volkmann Date: 11/05/2013
Supply chain excellence in manufacturing
Today I had the opportunity to take part at a Master Class on Supply chain management with Professor...
Author: Conrad Volkmann Date: 10/31/2013
Attribute based sales prices for the Product configurator
Product configurator – Attribute-based sales prices In Cumulative Update number 7 to Dynamics...
Author: SverreThune Date: 10/07/2013
Understanding the default configuration concept for constraint-based products
Introduction The default configuration concept enables users to start the product configuration...
Author: Ievgenii Korovin Date: 07/15/2013
Product configurator, new expression editor
In Cumulative Update 6 for Dynamics AX 2012 R2 we have included a new expression editor forthe...
Author: SverreThune Date: 07/05/2013
Whitepaper "Lean manufacturing - Capable to promise and Kanban job scheduling" for CU6 now available for download
With Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012, two new concepts were introduced for lean manufacturing: Event...
Author: Conrad Volkmann Date: 07/04/2013
Product configurator, new Calculations concept
In cumulative update 6 for Dynamics AX 2012 R2 we are introducing a new conceptcalled Calculations...
Author: SverreThune Date: 07/01/2013
AX product configurator drives CAD and 3D printer.
More and more companies want to deliver configure to order scenarios at the cost of mass production...
Author: Lars Fleckenstein Date: 06/27/2013
Working with Overlap in Microsoft Dynamics AX
Conducting Dynamics AX Manufacturing training for a class in Malaysia, it became clear that the...
Author: Christian Rytt Date: 05/28/2013
Use of ingredient types for batch balancing in production
In an earlier blog post,...
Author: JohanHoffmann Date: 05/27/2013
Product Configuration - Physical data model for user selected values
A constraint-based configurator was shipped with MicrosoftDynamics AX 2012. In this post, we will...
Author: Dennis Conrad Date: 02/28/2013
Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 R2 – Developer perspective on the Selection list
Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 R2 – Developer perspective on the Selection list Extending the...
Author: Andre Lamego Date: 02/21/2013
Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 R2 - Selection List
Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 R2 - Selection List A feature that enables persistent selections on list...
Author: Andre Lamego Date: 02/19/2013