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Integrate Axapta to Plant Using Wonderware Factelligence
Axapta is a mid-market ERP Enterprise Resource Planning system that can handle more and move faster than any other ERP solution. Wherever you're heading, Axapta will get you there first. Everything is installed right from the start, when you need more, it's ready and waiting for you. This includes a full function shop floor system via Wonderware's proven Factelligence® interface.
Financial Management
If you are a CFO, you want accurate numbers now — not tomorrow. Control over your finances can't wait for wrong numbers to be corrected or overdue reports. Axapta provides you with fast, reliable and comprehensive accounting, financial reporting and analysis.
- Financial management with dimensions
- Intercompany accounting and consolidation
- Complete audit trail
The Basics Count
Axapta provides all of the functionality you need to update your accounts efficiently and comply with internal and external reporting requirements. Basic capabilities include general ledger, liquidity management (bank management), accounts receivable, accounts payable and fixed assets.
Accuracy Throughout
You can work with an infinite number of dimensions across the various modules and they are easy to set up and maintain. They can be used for tracking profit, cost centers, departments, regions, product lines or any other reporting unit. The online update of your general ledger results in fast and accurate financial reporting. Since all of the Axapta modules are part of one system, a transaction in one module is automatically updated in corresponding accounts in the general ledger.
Intercompany Accounting in One System
With Axapta, a business with several subsidiaries or distribution centers can set up intercompany journals. An intercompany transaction posted in one subsidiary is automatically updated in designated accounts of the other subsidiary or distribution center. With the complete audit trail, you can trace any transaction back to the module where it was created and to the original document. Fast and flexible reporting tools help you perform a vast range of reports and inquiries.
Currency Support Helps Balance Books
When transactions are made in several currencies, it is a time-consuming and error prone task to reconcile fluctuations in relative currency value. Axapta handles two currencies making it possible to track all transactions in the originating currency and the base currency of the company. It automatically calculates and updates realize and unrealized gains and losses. The detailed currency information is stored in the subsidiary ledgers, as well as the general ledger.
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Decision makers in a global marketplace face tough questions everyday. Is the business healthy? Who are my best customers? Which supplier should I choose? Axapta gives you access to the accurate and timely analysis you need to compete successfully. Capturing the larger overview and drilling down to the details in the familiar and user-friendly Axapta environment help you learn from previous decisions, investigate opportunity and target markets and customers with pinpoint accuracy — quickly.
- Designer for multidimensional data cubes
- Integration with Microsoft Analysis Services
- Analysis views through embedded Pivot Tables
- Balanced scorecard with key performance indicators
ERP Data at Work
Analysis in Axapta software is based on On-Line Analytical Processing technology (OLAP), which facilitates multidimensional analysis through the use of the Microsoft Analysis Server. With Axapta, the OLAP functionality and the ERP data are one so that all mappings occur directly in Axapta, thus taking full advantage of your business information and making the most of relationships between tables, extended data types and enum labels.
Analysis When and How You Want It
You have a wide range of dimensions to explore, including time, products, geographical regions or sales channels. CEOs, CFOs, managers, controllers, accountants and sales and marketing staff can create, view and understand reports that previously were complicated, expensive or time-consuming. The data used for analysis is constantly updated because it includes changes as they occur in Axapta or subsequent data sources.
Ready for the Future
Install a new version of your Microsoft operating system and Microsoft Business Solutions — Axapta will automatically take on the new look and other improvements. No need to upgrade — Microsoft Windows standards are built in. Axapta is written entirely in X++, which is similar to C#, the Microsoft .NET programming language.
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When it comes to your supply chain, two goals come to mind — reducing inventory and increasing productivity. Today, with the combined forces of the Internet and ERP, it is possible to find the balance needed to achieve those goals. Axapta is a natural fit to this equation due to its encompassing functionality and inherent Internet capabilities. It was built for the Internet giving you fast and cost-effective visibility and connectivity throughout your entire supply chain.
- Demand forecasting
- Intercompany trade
- Procurement management
- Partner self-service websites
- Performance monitoring
- Electronic information exchange
Collaborating Online — Makes Sense
The supply chain comes to life when you connect with your customers and vendors using the Internet. Via personalized Web portals, they can interact directly with your ERP data reducing the time and costs associated with sales, purchases and deliveries. Everyone relevant to the process has access to a shared and accurate overview of the supply chain data, and all of the information is completely integrated and automatically updated throughout Axapta.
Eliminate Manual Entry
Axapta gives you the ability to eliminate all manual entry of data. Via XML, documents such as sales and purchase orders can be sent directly from your customer's or vendor's system to your own Axapta installation and vice versa without any employee interaction whatsoever.
Trade Internally Without Hassle
The Intercompany functionality saves your business time and money because it allows several subsidiaries or distribution centers to trade internally within one Axapta installation. It is not necessary to create manual sales or purchase orders, and you have greater control as well as visibility regarding transfers.
Analysis Paves the Way for Improvement
Using the wealth of accurate information stored in Axapta, you can analyze the relationship between costs and sales including very specific details such as sales on different item groups, individual items, customer groups and individual customers. You can accurately monitor your revenue across your business based on factors such as country, region, customer group and time period so that your supply chain is on a steady path of evolution.
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With Microsoft Business Solutions — Axapta, you are in constant dialogue with your customers. By knowing your customers and their needs, you can deliver the exact products and services they seek. By servicing their needs effectively, you gain their loyalty.
- Sales force and marketing automation
- Telemarketing and questionnaires
- Sales management
- Customer self-service websites
- Computer telephone integration
- Document management
Centralized Customer Information
Your can manage business relationships more effectively with all your business information stored centrally in one database. Your sales force can plan and evaluate activities and easily spot new opportunities due to the structured and accessible information. Using the detailed information, they can create, administer and distribute campaigns directly from Axapta. They also have advanced reporting options, such as analyzing actual sales against budgets.
Better Service
Self-service portals for sales representatives and customers are fast and easy to launch. Customers can browse through personalized product catalogues, view the shipping status and maintain their own contact information. Even on the road, your sales force has access to vital information. By using a mobile phone, a hand-held PC or a browser, they can access customer-related information such as projects, invoices, order history and current total revenue.
Sharing and Exchanging Knowledge
What's more, your entire organization can gain from sales knowledge. Information that is usually only accessible by staff in accounting or sales can now be made available to staff anywhere in the organization — depending on their roles within the business. There are no more walls separating front-office and back-office activities.
Automating Sales Processes
With Axapta, you also have the option to integrate your computers and telephones for automatic dial up. Document management includes the tracking and storage of contacts, sales orders and quotations as well as emails, SMS messages and phone calls.
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When choosing an ERP system, manufacturers are faced with a difficult dilemma. Too often it comes down to choosing a solution that has strong manufacturing functionality at the expense of general business functionality. Or you are forced to purchase a separate system, such as financial management, and integrate the two. Not with Axapta and Wonderware Factelligence. They offer the full range of functionality — including deep manufacturing.
- MRPII-compliant supply and demand planning
- Finite and infinite capacity and materials planning
- Job scheduling and sequencing
- Resource management
- Work order management with job costing
Greater Control
Axapta gives you greater control over manufacturing and production. At any time, you can measure very specific costs associated with employees, machinery and products. This allows you to manage costs better and identify new possibilities faster.
Better Planning
The finite and infinite capacity and materials planning helps you project long-term needs, foresee fluctuations in demand and adjust your plans accordingly. You can manage your shop floor more effectively by reducing manual entry and web-enabling employee information such as time registration and payroll. By collecting and analyzing production-related information such as work hours and production activities, you can improve cost control.
Gantt charts provide a graphical illustration of schedules so that you can plan, coordinate and track specific tasks related to a project. Using Gantt charts, you can, for example, assess the consequences of staff rotations visually, via the graphic tool in a simple manner. You can define your Gantt plans and envision the production flow from one machine to another.
Simplified Configuration
Due to the online configuration, products can be generated online and with greater precision. At the same time, you can open your system up to customers and vendors so that they can configure their own products, submit orders and view an expected date of delivery via the Internet. The full graphical suite, including version control, helps you design and maintain bills of materials.
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Effective distribution comes down to knowing where items are at any given moment and ensuring an efficient flow from production, to storage, to shipping. With Axapta, you can optimize your entire warehouse management cycle according to your needs based on accurate, timely information.
- Multi-site warehouse management
- Inventory management with dimensions
- Order handling with trade agreements
- Order promising
- Item and lot number reservation and tracking
Flexible Storage
Axapta facilitates the process for receiving items from both external suppliers and internal sources while providing extensive flexibility for placement of goods. It supports the division of warehouses into zones with different storage purposes, including chaotic storage.
Levels of Information
Dimensions make it possible for you to define very specific levels of information for each item group or each specific item. The support for serial and batch number control automatically stamps inventory or individual items with a number linked to shipments and deliveries. Axapta also supports the use of bar codes as a means of running your warehouse more efficiently.
Multi-sites in One System
You can unite multi-sites in one installation reducing maintenance costs and IT resources. Multi-site support is ideal for companies with wide area networks that want centralized reporting and the ability to cross-reference or amalgamate information from individual offices. Customer, vendor, general ledger account numbers and similar information can be shared or made unique depending on business needs.
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Users can access Microsoft Business Solutions-Navision through a variety of methods, such as standard clients, browsers and 3rd party solutions. By leveraging the e-business offering for Navision you can open up for conducting business electronically across boarders and timezones.
The e-business offering for Navision encompasses the following products: Commerce Gateway, Commerce Portal, and User Portal.
Commerce Gateway enables companies to conduct electronic transactions automatically with their key partners by linking their IT systems regardless of platform and transport.
Commerce Portal enables browser-based commerce, self-service and other types of cooperation between a company and its supply chain partners.
User Portal increases employee productivity by integrating all your company resources into a single browser-based interface thereby making it possible for users to access data in Navision from a browser.
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