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Microsoft Dynamics AX is a comprehensive business management solution for midsized and larger organizations that works like and with familiar Microsoft® software to help you improve productivity. Microsoft Dynamics AX is built to make it easy to do business across locations and countries by consolidating and standardizing processes, providing visibility across your organization, and helping simplify compliance. With Microsoft Dynamics AX, you can be confident your business management solution is, and will continue to be, relevant to the needs of your people and the demands of your industry and business.

More than 10,600 organizations around the world already rely on Microsoft Dynamics AX to help them drive their business forward and realize greater business success. Now, with one of the most innovative and exciting releases to date, Microsoft Dynamics AX offers organizations a powerful way to stay competitive by empowering individual users and entire organization to improve productivity, manage change, compete globally, and simplify compliance.

Familiar to Your People

What if business management technology could free up you and your employees to focus on what’s truly important? What if technology reflected the ways in which people throughout your company actually work? Microsoft Dynamics AX is the answer to those questions. Microsoft Dynamics AX works like other Microsoft products you and your people are familiar with, helping reduce the time required to learn how to use it, and freeing up time to focus on what matters most. Designed with a focus on the roles people play throughout your company, Microsoft Dynamics AX delivers an individualized, task-based user experience and allows your employees to easily customize and automate based on their own preferences and work style. That means less training and development time and a quicker return on your investment.

Fits with Your Systems

When a business management solution works the way your current technology works, it fits easily and seamlessly into your existing systems and helps you maximize your technology investment. Microsoft Dynamics works the way your current technology works so it fits easily into your systems, helping to maximize your investment in Microsoft technology. This in turn allows your employees to use a powerful business management solution within a familiar environment. Take advantage of BizTalk® tools for data mapping, partner configuration and improved security. Or, integrate with other Microsoft product innovations, including Microsoft SQL ServerTM and Microsoft Windows.® Microsoft Dynamics AX – built to work with and maximize the potential of other Microsoft technologies.

Fuels Your Business Productivity

Microsoft Dynamics helps fuel your productivity by automating your business-critical operations and adapting to fit into your type of business helping ensure the most relevant insight. How? With a user experience modelled around tasks and roles and integrated with familiar productivity tools like Microsoft Office. With integration between Microsoft Dynamics AX and Microsoft SharePoint® technologies collaboration is fostered among your employees, vendors and customers. And, by integrating financial, customer relationship and supply chain processes to help maximize both internal and external efficiencies, costs are reduced and performance improved.

Enables Confident Decision-Making

The business landscape in which you thrive is demanding. You need to be able to respond and have the confidence to make informed decisions that have an impact. Microsoft Dynamics AX helps you respond rapidly to the changing demands of your business, providing you with more complete insight across your organization so you and your people can make timely and informed decisions with increased confidence. With Microsoft SQL Server, Microsoft® Office Excel® analysis tools and Microsoft Dynamics AX working together, you gain access to critical data. That data can be easily analyzed and your employees get the information they want out of the system in the way they want and need, using a tool that is already familiar to them.

Compete in a Global Marketplace

Emerging markets, political changes, and technological advancements continue to drive and transform the world economy creating opportunities and challenges for business leaders everywhere. While technological innovations over the last several decades have made some things easier, the complexity of doing business on a global scale has increased dramatically.

Microsoft Dynamics AX gives organizations an easier way to compete effectively by reducing the complexity of doing business in a global marketplace.

Compliance

Compliance as a new business opportunity? You bet! Read how Microsoft Dynamics AX helps your customers transform the challenge of compliance into bottom-line benefits.

Organizations today are focusing more and more on business compliance requirements. Following a rash of corporate scandals, new laws like Sarbanes-Oxley along with increased scrutiny of existing government compliance requirements has created a challenging environment for business leaders.

Microsoft Dynamics AX offers organizations cost-efficient ways to deal with the challenges of compliance. New enhancements and features including Workflow, Dashboard, Compliance Center, Configurable Alerts and Role Center – to name just a few – help you enable your customers to not just achieve compliance throughout their organization, but drive business productivity and realize real world business benefits through compliance.

Microsoft Dynamics AX and AX-iom deliver solutions that can help industrial equipment manufacturers build collaborative and profitable relationships with global suppliers, make accurate decisions that reduce costs and improve operational efficiency, and increase customer satisfaction and retention through real-time visibility into changing design requirements, supplier status, and manufacturing operations.

Microsoft Dynamics AX helps enable industrial equipment manufacturers to:

Improve Operations and Reduce Costs

• Enable agile manufacturing with a complete view into changing design requirements, supplier status, and manufacturing operations
• Enable informed decisions that drive cost reductions, ensure compliance and improved operational efficiencies using real-time data from suppliers and customers and automated reminders delivered through familiar desktop applications 
• Monitor industry- and customer-specific KPIs using convenient management portals that enable automatic and 7x24 self-service delivery of critical information to team members worldwide
• Use comprehensive project management tools to accurately track all types of projects—from new product development to engineer-to-order projects
• Start up new operations and/or processes quickly with rapid implementation of technology solutions
• Reduce training time and improve employee satisfaction and productivity through the delivery of complex capabilities in easy to use solutions that work like and with other familiar Microsoft desktop tools

Develop Profitable Customer Relationships

• Develop powerful quotation processes that quickly deliver accurate quotes to the customer
• Connect customer demand requirements directly to manufacturing, suppliers, and distribution operations
• Provide powerful after-sales support technology, including mobility solutions for rapid response and tracking

Build Deeper Relationships with Suppliers and Vendors

• Build more collaborative and profitable relationships with global suppliers through a demand-driven supplier network that delivers end-to-end and real-time visibility into key information, such as sourcing, demand forecasts, design changes, and production costs
• Shorten development cycles by integrating product development to manufacturing, accounting, purchasing, and suppliers
• Establish and manage effective pre and post sales processes and practices across the organization using centralized customer relationship management tools that provide convenient, automated reminders that streamline follow-up task delivered in familiar desktop applications
• Generate and implement personalized marketing campaigns that leverage automation and return the highest quality of leads to the sales arm

Microsoft Dynamics AX and AX-iom can help your industrial equipment manufacturing company and your employees achieve real-time collaboration with global customers and partners, gain visibility across your entire supply network, comply with changing regulations, and deliver customer-focused solutions that will help grow your business and set it apart from the competition.

Create Innovative Products

• Reduce the time required to develop innovative products by improving collaboration with partners and by integrating product development with manufacturing, accounting, purchasing, and suppliers.
  • Integrate multiple facilities and departments by delivering a single, real-time view into all manufacturing, sales, procurement, and financial activity, with information tailored to specific roles and available through portals and devices.
  • Measure and deliver industry-specific and customer-specific KPIs with easy-to-use and familiar software.
  • Speed development cycles by integrating product development with manufacturing, accounting, purchasing, and suppliers.

Drive sustainability leadership

• Use data from product development and the supply chain to assist in effectively meeting government regulations.
• Reduce training time and create happy, satisfied users by allowing them to accomplish their business activities using familiar desktop tools.
• Streamline supply chain and plant manufacturing processes to make optimal use of manufacturing capacity, procured materials, finished product inventories, and market demand.
• Remove waste and improve real-time visibility and customer-specific reporting throughout the supply chain.
• Accelerate the adoption of sustainable and lean manufacturing processes for cost reduction, helping improve differentiation and future growth.
• Create the transparency required to track and trace products.
• Provide retailers with the visibility they demand by integrating bar code and radio-frequency identification (RFID) systems into the business system.

Increase Market and Customer Responsiveness

• Provide manufacturing with real-time data that helps them react quickly to changing consumer tastes and desires using real-time, actionable workflow notifications delivered through familiar desktop applications.
• Help connect retailers’ demand requirements directly to manufacturing, supplier, and distribution operations.
• Provide accurate reporting and analysis of changing demand and improved visibility across the entire supply chain. This information can be used to provide more accurate, complete, and timely communication with customers and drive customer retention.
• Help simplify complex processes by automation and process improvement through easy-to-use and widely familiar desktop software tools.

Download the Microsoft Dynamics AX High Tech Manufacturing Brochure.

Microsoft Dynamics AX helps enable consumer packaged goods manufacturers to meet and exceed the demands of retailers and consumers by utilizing real-time operations and supply chain information to make rapid and accurate decisions. Microsoft Dynamics AX and AX-iom delivers lean manufacturing that opens the visibility to suppliers to help you and your employees speed the time from concept to shelf, remove waste from operations, and meet new demands from large retailers by helping:

Create Innovative Products

• Integrate a collaborative product development environment with manufacturing and procurement systems to speed time to market on new and/or improved products
• Support customization and brand labeling of your products to assist in differentiation in a crowded market

Improve Operations and Reduce Costs

• Enable informed decisions using data from suppliers and customers in real-time, actionable workflow notifications delivered through familiar desktop applications
• Measure and delivering industry and customer specific KPIs to all with easy-to-use and familiar software
• Reduce training time and create happy, satisfied users by allowing them to accomplish their business activities using familiar desktop tools
• Integrate multiple facilities and departments by delivering a single, real-time view into all customer information and manufacturing, sales, procurement, and financial activity using familiar applications that are readily available globally
• Integrate bar code and RFID systems with internal and customer systems to meet the requirements of larger retailers while lowering the cost of manufacturing and distribution
• Utilize supply chain and plant manufacturing visibility to make optimal use of manufacturing capacity, procured materials, finished product inventories, and market demand
• Start new operations and/or processes quickly with fast implementation of ERP and the rest of their technology solutions
• Deliver reports on manufacturing operations to understand where savings can be found and how customers can be served most effectively
• Simplify delivery of complex capabilities in easy-to-use and well-known desktop software tools

Develop Profitable Customer Relationships

• Improve customer support and deepening customer relationships by effectively tracking and monitoring customer needs and requests

Build Connections to Suppliers and Vendors

• Connect retailer demand requirements directly to manufacturing, suppliers, and distribution operations
• Shorten development cycles by integrating product development with manufacturing, accounting, purchasing, and suppliers

Microsoft Dynamics AX and AX-iom help consumer goods manufacturers and their employees achieve real-time collaboration with global customers and partners, gain visibility across the entire supply network, comply with changing regulations and deliver customer-focused solutions that help grow their business and set it apart from the competition.

Microsoft Dynamics helps drive down the operational cost of metal fabricators by delivering powerful manufacturing, financial and CRM solutions that support lean business processes and manage outsourcing and the supply chain while significantly improving customer service. Microsoft Dynamics and our manufacturing-focused partners are qualified to deliver lean manufacturing and accounting solutions that can help you and your employees remove waste from manufacturing, engineering, procurement, and sales processes.

Microsoft Dynamics helps enable metal fabricators to:

Improve Operations and Reduce Costs

• Enable informed decisions using real-time data from suppliers and customers in real-time actionable workflow notifications delivered through familiar desktop applications
• Measure and deliver industry and customer specific KPIs to all with easy-to-use and familiar software
• Simplify delivery of complex capabilities in easy-to-use and well-known desktop software tools
• Integrate powerful project management tools into ERP applications to accurately track all types of projects—from new product development and introductions to engineer-to-order
• Integrate multiple facilities and departments by delivering a single real-time view into all manufacturing, sales, procurement, and financial activity 

Develop Profitable Customer Relationships

• Collect and deliver the actual costs of parts made so they can be lowered and quoted appropriately
• Provide powerful after-sales support technology, including mobility solutions for rapid response and tracking

Build Deeper Relationships with Suppliers and Vendors

• Connect customer demand requirements directly to manufacturing, suppliers, and distribution operations
• Shorten development cycles by integrating product development to manufacturing, accounting, purchasing, and suppliers using familiar applications that are readily available globally

Microsoft Dynamics AX and AX-iom can help your metal fabrication company and your employees achieve real-time collaboration with global customers and partners, gain visibility across the entire supply network, comply with changing regulations and deliver customer-focused solutions that will help grow your business and set it apart from your competition.