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Microsoft Dynamics AX: Take your business into the future

Microsoft Dynamics AX is a comprehensive enterprise resource planning (ERP) solution to help midsize and larger organizations to work more effectively, manage change, and compete globally. It makes it easy to operate across locations and countries by standardizing processes, providing visibility across the organization, and helping to simplify compliance.

Microsoft Dynamics AX offers a single Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) solution that can support every area of your operations with functionality to support:-

• Financial Management
• Trading and Logistics
• Production Management
• Service Management
• Project Accounting
• Human Resource Management
• Sales and Marketing

Designed with the user in mind, Microsoft Dynamics AX works like other, familiar Microsoft products so your people can get up and running quickly and focus on what’s important.

Improve productivity – A familiar interface, tools that are easy to use and access to RoleTailored information and tasks, combine to enable your people to work quickly and make smart, proactive decisions.

Manage change and growth – Scale your business systems and adapt processes easily with a single ERP solution that can support your strategic initiatives and help manage change in the marketplace, such as new product launches and mergers and acquisitions.

Compete globally – Manage the complexities of a global organization with one centralized ERP solution that helps you standardize processes and gain visibility across your organization while keeping on top of changes in local regulations.

Simplify compliance – Stay ahead of regulatory compliance and reduce risk and liability associated with corporate governance and customer initiatives.

Making people and processes more productive with Microsoft Dynamics AX

True productivity requires an end-to-end enterprise resource planning (ERP) package that your people will actually use. Microsoft Dynamics AX provides a familiar interface that quickly connects your people, and your business partners, to the right information and tools to work faster and smarter.

• More easily prioritize and focus on relevant tasks, information and activities with a RoleTailored user experience. Microsoft Dynamics AX offers more than 30 out-of-the-box Role Centers to give employees intuitive, graphical displays of the information and activities most relevant to their specific job or role. Your people become part of your business processes because workflow capabilities and results are integrated directly into the Role Center.
• Improve communication and collaboration with integrated unified communications, including presence information, instant messaging, and Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) capabilities – all accessible right from Microsoft Dynamics AX, ensuring that your people have the information they need, when they need it.
• Find information faster and easier by using familiar tools and technologies through Microsoft Dynamics AX tight integration with Microsoft Office Excel, Windows SharePoint Services, and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server.
• Improve decision-making throughout your organization with ad hoc, self-service business intelligence (BI) and reporting for everyone in key business areas. Microsoft Dynamics AX enables self – service BI by providing default data cubes that can be displayed as KPIs in employees' Role Centers and viewed with more detail in Excel.
• Provide a user interface that is simple to use and similar to other Microsoft products, to ease training and help people reach their full potential faster with Microsoft Dynamics AX.

Manage organizational change and growth with Microsoft Dynamics AX

As your organization expands, the ability to rapidly scale your ERP systems to support new users, new locations, and new lines of business-as well as to improve the efficiency of core business processes – is critical. Systems that keep pace with your growing business can minimize growing pains and ensure your company is poised for future success.

Whether you’re supporting the organic growth of your existing business, expanding by adding new locations, or transforming your organization through merger or acquisition, Microsoft Dynamics AX can help you manage a smooth transition as you take your business to the next level. Here’s how:

Ensure smooth integration of merged or newly acquired companies

• Rapidly gain visibility into the new or combined entity and/or subsidiaries by integrating all business systems and capturing manual business processes. Aggregating and analyzing data from disparate systems can help deliver operational insight, enabling better sales and production forecasting, materials scheduling, inventory management, and other critical processes.
• A familiar, comfortable user interface and intuitive Role Centers help employees quickly become proficient in ERP functionality, reducing downtime and training time, and eliminating resistance to adoption of the new systems.

Quickly add new locations or international offices

• Track multiple business units within a single organization as separate profit/loss centers. Scale to support an unlimited number of books for asset management and support different depreciation methods depending on tax authority and financial reporting purposes.
• Rapidly add international capabilities and new functionality. Support for multiple languages and currencies, country-specific functionality, and a rich set of multi-site shared services and intercompany functionality make it straightforward to extend Microsoft Dynamics AX with the exact capabilities you need–when and where you need them.

Scale your systems along with your business

• Improve the speed of transaction processing and scale your transactional volume by automating business workflows, freeing people for other, more productive work, and reducing overhead costs as you grow.
• Respond quickly to new opportunities by integrating discrete budgeting and planning processes into the daily rhythm of the business. High performance systems enable you to run production and planning processes more frequently, so you can react to changes and increase company performance and schedule efficiencies.

Support your growing organization

• Maintain appropriate staffing levels and manage future organizational changes, including planned reorganizations and hiring campaigns by automating internal and external recruitment processes such as sourcing jobs, managing recruitment, and hiring new workers-including hiring en masse.
• Enable employees to spot trends and respond proactively. More easily perform complex analyses on data involving numerous aspects of the business, so people across the organization can make more confident decisions about high-risk business situations based on data from multiple sources.

Compete globally with Microsoft Dynamics AX

Today, business opportunity can mean enlarging your customer base to include a worldwide audience or expanding across borders into new sites or branch offices. Microsoft Dynamics AX is designed to manage the complexities of a global organization by consolidating and standardizing processes and providing visibility across your organization.

• Expand easily across international borders with country-and region-specific functionality, including capabilities for multiple languages and currencies and compliance with local financial requirements for more than 36 countries/regions.
• Consolidate financial, operational, and customer data while preserving local information to build your strategic edge and personalized customer, partner, and supplier relationships.
• Unify standards and help ensure quality by centralizing processes, sharing best practices, and extending supply chain management across multiple sites and divisions.
• Manage and monitor global and local performance with sophisticated yet straightforward reporting and analysis tools. Combine your solution with Microsoft Business Intelligence applications to enhance the analytic capabilities critical to managing a complex business environment.
• Give people access to real-time KPIs, scorecards, and data through Enterprise Portal in Microsoft Dynamics AX. And with Microsoft Office PerformancePoint Server or Microsoft Office SharePoint Server, key decision-makers can work with critical information without logging in to Microsoft Dynamics AX.

Simplify compliance with Microsoft Dynamics AX

Managing the challenges of compliance is not easy. As you deal with the increasing demands of doing business in a fast-changing global environment, you also need to provide relevant and timely information, and report accurately and regularly to authorities, business partners, stakeholders, and shareholders. Dealing with these challenges to enforce compliance can be complicated and costly.

Microsoft Dynamics AX gives you a cost-effective way to simplify the challenges of compliance by helping your organization improve internal controls and increase visibility into compliance-related processes and activities.

Here’s how Microsoft Dynamics AX can help simplify compliance and mitigate the risk of noncompliance:

Empower more employees. Microsoft Dynamics AX is easy to learn and use, enabling more people in your organization to use the system. The more people who use the system the better control you have over your business processes and corporate procedures.

• RoleTailored design in Microsoft Dynamics AX helps to meet individual user needs to inspire greater productivity.
• A task-centric interface customized to each user's preferences and role helps individuals focus on what's critical to their specific jobs.
• The Role Center in Microsoft Dynamics AX helps empower employees to respond faster and more accurately to compliance-related tasks and actions. Compliance information and alerts are presented in a way that is easy to understand and easier to act upon.

Take control of your processes. Standard operating procedures can help ensure that efficient and consistent actions are carried out in your organization. Automating the processes associated with standard operating procedures, such as recording tasks and adjusting requirements, help people focus on activities that add value to your business.

• Enforce standard operating procedures with embedded workflows that automate business processes, and enable your organization to respond quickly to changing market needs.
• Create individual workflows or business processes to automate compliance with corporate policies and procedures.
• Help ensure consistency with standardized, repeatable processes that can reliably aggregate compliance data.

Prepare your organization to meet compliance requirements. Now you can enable your organization to meet a variety of compliance requirements and customer mandates, including financial, legal, and environmental.

• Comply with local regulatory environments with built-in support for 36 countries and 40 languages.
• Meet regulatory requirements for your specific industry using Microsoft Dynamics AX Industry Solutions for Services, Manufacturing, Distribution and other sectors.
• Support green supply chain strategies and gain visibility into your organization’s energy consumption with the Environmental Sustainability Dashboard and environmental management accounting template.

See the whole picture. Visibility and control of compliance-related processes and activities are key factors in enforcing effective compliance. Now you can:

• Help ensure transparency into corporate governance and compliance activities with the Compliance Center, a single location for policies and procedures, process documents, database logs, reports, charts, and key risk indicators.
• Gain insight into compliance activities with business intelligence tools that help you track and monitor changes to internal events.

Reduce costs. Microsoft Dynamics AX helps enable organizations to reduce the total cost of compliance out-of-the-box. It helps reduce the manual processes that reduce productivity and lead to higher costs by automating and streamlining standard methodologies for risk and compliance processes.