KPMG Slow Tech Adoption Plagues Construction

This week saw the release of KPMG’s annual construction industry survey. https://www.constructiondive.com/news/kpmg-report-construction-industry-slow-to-adopt-new-technology/426268/ The conclusions may be startling, but they serve as a wake-up call for any company involved in large projects. After surveying 218 senior executives the main take-aways are: The industry is slow to embrace technology – as project complexity increases, as well as associated…

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Design-build construction

As the profitability situation for Construction and Architectural firms tightens, how will your company react to these developments? With Missouri’s passage of new design-build legislation, 50% of U.S. states now allow the delivery method to be used on public projects, according to Building Design + Construction. The new Missouri law permits cities and school districts…

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General Journal Import in Microsoft Dynamics AX

Today we will discuss the persistent challenge common with many Dynamics AX implementations. On numerous occasions, a requirement exists to import financial transactions from external sources (for example, 3rd party payroll service). Dynamics AX 2012 provides standard functionality to setup the data load option using Data Import/Export Framework (see the MSDN blog posting with instructions https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/axsupport/2014/07/17/importing-a-general-journal-using-data-importexport-framework-ax-2012/).…

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demand forecast dynamics ax 2012

In this last part of the Demand Forecasting blog series (Part 1 and Part 2), we are going to see how the forecasting activities play into the overall Master Planning process in Dynamics AX. We won’t go into the nitty gritty details of Master Planning here, because Master Planning itself would be a big topic for another…

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In this second part of the demand forecasting blog series (click here to see part 1), we are going to generate the statistical baseline forecast out of AX and see how the rest of the forecasting process actually works. Once we are done with configuration of the parameters, a statistical baseline forecast can be generated out of…

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Demand forecasting can be immensely valuable to a business organization. It supports the overall Sales and operations planning process for a business and can directly impact and help the downstream business operations. At the very fundamental level, demand forecasting can tell a business what they need, when they need it and what they anticipate/predict delivering…

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funding limits tab dynamics ax 2012

This blog is the second half of a series reviewing funding within a Project Contract (See part 1 here). In this section we will be reviewing funding limits and funding rules. A funding limit holds the amount of money each funding source has allocated to it. Funding rules tell the project transaction which funding source…

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Project Contract Funding sources dynamics ax

This blog is part one of a two-part series reviewing funding within a Project Contract.  In part one we will be reviewing funding sources. A funding source is exactly as it sounds, the source of where the money is coming from for a project. Usually a customer is the source of funding, but there are…

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