Field Service Inventory Valuation

Field Operations Enterprises often have inventory spread across wide geographical areas, in remote warehouses, on service vehicles and even in the process of being installed. An accurate depiction of what you have (and where it) is becomes vital to accurate financials. One of the key areas to manage is Inventory Valuation. Whether your valuation method…

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Mobile Devices in Plastics Manufacturing Warehouses

The warehouse continues to be a focal point for performance improvement in Plastics Manufacturing. Equipping personnel with RF guns or other mobile devices is an important factor in picking and putaway performance. Microsoft continues to understand mobile device advantages by developing mobile applications, using HTML5, or specifically targeting RF devices. There are still pros and…

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The topic of Negative Inventory has been one of those “chicken or the egg” conversations for a long time. At first blush the answer may seem easy! But as the “what if” scenarios are brought up, the answer becomes a tangled web. Staunch process-base material managers typically say there is no need to ever allow…

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warehouse management worker dynamics ax

In November 2016, AX2012 R3 users were happy to receive cumulative update 12 (CU12) from Microsoft.  It included numerous updates for additional functionality and bug fixes. As more and more companies adopt the use of RF scanners, we see Microsoft acknowledge the need for additional mobile device functionality with the solutions they issued in CU12.…

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sales order defaults dynamics ax

When creating a Sales or Purchase order, Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 (AX) can auto populate Site and Warehouse information on the order header and lines. Today we will discuss the business logic hierarchy of how the Site and Warehouse fields are filled in on Sales or Purchase orders (and associated order lines). Site and Warehouse…

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