Microsoft Dynamics is the next ERP
Updated October 04, 2014
Microsoft Dynamics is the next ERP

Software Version
Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012
Modules Used
- Production Control
- Master Planning
- Inventory Management
- Project Accounting
Overall Satisfaction with Microsoft Dynamics AX
My company implements Microsoft Dynamics, and I have seen how this tools helps them to address different needs, from the product design, to procurement, planning, manufacturing execution, sales and shipping.
- Managing Lean Manufacturing works well in DAX, because it can help to control a lean manufacturing process for several types of orders, runners, repeaters, and strangers. It can also work with mix models, discrete manufacturing with lean manufacturing.
- Intercompany transactions is a very useful functionality that automates and simplifies transactions between companies of the same enterprise group.
- User friendly and integration with Microsoft tools such as Excel, SSAS, SSRS
- Easily integrates with other software
- Quality Management there is a lot of functionality needed from quality reporting and control, action follow up and sampling.
- Fixed Assed service management, there is much to develop for maintenance control.
- Discrete manufacturing scheduling utilities, for example scheduling production orders by the sales order they are pegged.
- Enterprise portal need a lot of improvement
- Integration with Microsoft office has a lot of space for improvement.
- Lean manufacturing has several opportunities to expand on scheduling and floor execution
- Product life cycle management
- Integration with Microsoft CRM
- Integration with other ERP systems
- Positive: Faster implementation time
- Positive: Easy to customize
- Positive: Low cost of maintenance
- Positive: Easy to integrate with other systems
- Positive: There is a great base market of Independent software vendors with vertical solutions
- Negative: Does not make the best use of the database engine
- Negative: Lacks more functionality on Database sharing between instances.
Oracle business suite 11i. DAX is simpler and easier to install and customize.