Best Dynamics AX Add-ons to optimize your Business process

Microsoft Dynamics AX is a complete Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) solution for enterprises that provides a purpose built foundation across five industries, along with comprehensive, core ERP functionality for financial, human resources and operations management. It empowers people to anticipate and embrace change so your business can thrive; all of which is packaged in a single global solution giving you rapid time to value.

Microsoft Dynamics AX is a multi-language, multi-currency ERP solution to mid-size and larger companies. With core strengths in manufacturing and e-business, there is an additional strong functionality for the wholesale and services industries. It is a single, powerful solution that is simple to learn and use so you can deliver value faster, take advantage of business opportunities, and drive user involvement and innovation across the organization.

Add-ons will optimize your business productivity and reduce the downtime of your business while it  also eliminates as many manual processes as possible. Upon thorough analysis of the add-ons that are available for Dynamics AX, the top Microsoft Dynamics AX Add-ons for the year 2012 are:

Advanced Production

AXtension® Advanced Production is a Microsoft Dynamics AX add-on that presents a complete overview of the available capacity and reservations information. Advanced Production provides total order visibility and any cost or process deviations can be further refined by using product characteristics as filter criteria. The ability to bring detailed planning to the shop floor allows you to reduce overtime. Management by exception with the delivery date as the key criteria provides the means to meet your customer’s expectations.

Apparel and Footwear

The Sunrise Technologies Apparel & Footwear Template for Microsoft Dynamics AX is a Certified Add-On for Microsoft Dynamics product, which signifies that the solution has met the Microsoft Corporation’s highest standard for partner-developed software. The Apparel & Footwear template is an integrated and comprehensive solution for both full-package sourcing and vertical manufacturing companies.

Audit Trail

Fastpath Audit Trail is an easy-to-install / configure solution that will allow you to analyze changes to your Microsoft Dynamics transaction and master data. Quickly and easily, you can understand what data has been changed, who changed it and the before and after values.

AX Cloud

ProISV’s Microsoft Dynamics AX is now available as a cloud service with—Flexible, reliable, secure, high performing and unlimited scalability. Microsoft Dynamics AX is deployed in the Amazon Web Service (AWS) global cloud infrastructure; the world’s leading cloud infrastructure provider

• AWS: Strong security and compliance. Fully ISO certified and compliant with highest industry standards

• Redundant and reliable data backup, stored redundantly across cloud zones and data centres

• Data storage capacity is unlimited and strongly encrypted. Never run out of disk space and fail safe.

Auto Bank Reconciliation

ZSL’s Auto Bank Reconciliation will help you to reconcile your bank statement at much faster in smarter way. This module automates the process of BRS with less human intervention and facilitates to process the BRS without any error.

Key Features

·         Auto matching of Bank Statement with AX Bank entries

·         Bank Statement directly imported into bank without much alteration

·         User defined Mapping tool to map Bank statement field with AX Fields

·         Duplicate Bank Statement can’t be imported.

·         Manual Matching option to match unmatched records

Job shop Management

Microsoft Dynamics AX for Job shop Management helps organizations to plan, track and analyze their service operations, which helps them to have an enhanced overview of their costs and revenue and also to improve their profitability.

                                                                           

ZSL’s Job Management Key Features

• Integrated with all core modules of AX
• User- Friendliness and Total flexibility to scale-up
• Risk free migration from old systems
• Accurate Billing
• Automatic scheduling of work
• Automatic update of orders
• Measurement of actual vs. budgeted hours
• Graphical analysis of activities
• Real time inquiry into orders
• Shipment tracking details
• General Ledger update for all transactions
• Tracking of labor and inventory consumption for each work order

Microsoft Dynamics AX BOM Importer

This add-on solution enables to integrate the BOM in the Excel Template to the Microsoft Dynamics AX application and facilitates the easy processing of generating list of New Item number for raw materials, Released Products, Sales Quotation, Sales Orders, Project Quotation, Project Transactions and other activities carried out in AX application. This reduces the manual effort involved and minimizes the errors due to the human intervention to a large extent.

Microsoft Dynamics AX Route Importer

This solution facilitates to integrate the Excel Template comprising route details for released products into Microsoft Dynamics AX application. This facilitates the business users to manage and optimize the time, effort and activities involved in various business operations in an efficient manner.

aXTend RF

The aXTend RF product of Greenlight BTS is an extensible Dynamics AX data collection framework and middleware server that when combined with radio frequency technology can give you access to almost any functionality you have in your Dynamics AX application from a handheld device.

aXTend RF gives you the functionality to create custom menus and screens enabling users with a straight-forward process and meaningful results to quickly and accurately complete their tasks. Whether it’s determining quantity on hand, filling an order, or updating a job order, aXTend RF can help get the job done.

Advanced Payroll Management

Dynamo’s Advanced Payroll Management helps reduce administrative costs, save time, and manage employee information effectively with a flexible payroll system Add-on Payroll for Microsoft Dynamics AX can help manage all your payroll functions in one integrated system, streamline your processes, provide insight into personnel costs, and improve payroll accuracy even when dealing with exceptions and complex workforce challenges.

Access and Print

·         Pay slip

·         Leave Analysis

·         Employee Transactions

·         Salary Statements

·         Send Payslip by email

·         Payroll analysis reports

MAXLife

Merit Solutions’ MAXLife helps Life Sciences companies shorten time to market for new product innovations by integrating business processes and managing projects effectively. By integrating design innovation into the manufacturing process and collaborating effectively with suppliers, partners, and customers, your company can help enhance customer satisfaction and stand out from your competitors.

MAXLife enables Life Sciences companies to manage project planning, scope, issues and risks; specifically project plan, status reporting, deliverable oversight, client interactions, budget, and adherence to process. With MAXLife, you can create estimates and quotes faster and more accurately to win more customized orders.

Service Management

Service Management provides you the key functionality to manage your service business and supports you in realizing and improving your customer satisfaction level.

Service Management is a fully integrated with the Microsoft Dynamics AX projects module enabling handling service request and initiating service activities both from financial and logistic perspective.

Service is related to objects (e.g. a car, a machine, a software program, a building or any similar type of asset or configuration). The system offers you several ways to register these objects in relation to the service you want to provide. Objects can be a single item or a complex installation consisting of many objects and components in a flexible multilevel structure. The multilevel structure can easily be created via the graphical object builder.

eCOLLECT

Albany Software’s eCOLLECT is an AUDDIS (Automated Direct Debit Instructions Service) compliant solution, enabling you to automatically create and submit new DD Instructions (DDIs). It also facilitates Paperless Direct Debit (PDD), completely eliminating the lengthy and time-consuming process of manually completing and submitting DD mandates.

eCOLLECT manages the entire amendment and cancellation process, importing BACS notifications and presenting a recommended course of action. This process can be automated to eliminate the need for manual intervention.

eCOLLECT offers enhanced cash flow visibility through comprehensive reporting capabilities, providing a clear picture of what transactions have been carried out and forecasting future collections over specified periods. For security purposes, user rights can be assigned, ensuring only the appropriate individuals can access report information.