Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 R3, is available globally from today, 1st May, 2014.
Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 R3 delivers new warehouse and transportation management capabilities to provide customers with real-time end-to-end insights into supply-chain execution.
Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 R3 adds support for deployment on Microsoft Azure via infrastructure as a service. This capability delivers high availability of data and disaster recovery data, as critical business data is stored in the cloud and can be retrieved by businesses virtually anytime, anywhere. Pre-configured environments are also available on Windows Azure for businesses to speed deployment, and significantly reduce time to value from Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 R3, for demonstration, development, testing and production usage.
Reinforcing the value Microsoft Dynamics AX is delivering to businesses, Microsoft released a commissioned Forrester Consulting TEI (Total Economic Impact) study. Based on customer surveys and interviews, Forrester determined that a composite organisation using Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 had a three-year ROI of 92 percent, a payback period of 21 months and benefits of over £3.5 million,* highlighting the real benefit and time to value this solution delivers to customers.
Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 R3 is a significant step for the entire industry toward the future of ERP, with apps, devices and services in the cloud as cornerstones of its new capabilities. The advancements it offers in business logic and data model, cloud and new apps, and services and devices scenarios all set the stage for continued future innovation evolving directly from the functionality being delivered today.
A few more features to mention:
There are no longer extra GL entries generated from the two voucher item posting strategy this is a welcome change back to previouss logic.
This corrects a design issue when the distribution framework was introduced in AX2012. Fewer entries are made to the GL and the normal effect of posting a receiving to accrued purchases shows in a more sensible way.
The reservation Hierarchy determines how dimensions are used in the warehouse. The reservation hierarchy is the key to warehouse management and automation and can be configured differently for items that require more detailed manual reservation. Understanding the hierarchy is important to the overall system automation and flow.
New item dimensions are introduced. Items must be associated with the correct storage dimension at creation. Changing the storage dimension after transactions exist is not supported. Microsoft will introduce conversion utilities for existing customer installations post release. There are now additional Inventory Storage Dimensions for Inventory Status and License Plate Inventory statuses can also be tied to blocking features to only allow inventory that is truly available for immediate sale
PowerQuery is a free download as an addin to Excel 2013 and 2010 that can integrate directly with your instance of AX2012 company data to allow an AX user to connect directly with Queries and Services exposed to the document framework of the Excel Addin. This allows easier creation of business intelligence reports on AX data directly connecting to the AX company database. This does not require Office365 and can run standalone.
