Microsoft - What’s New - Dynamics AX 2012 for Supply Chain Management and Manufacturing

Curriculum

Module 1: Overview

Lessons

• Introduction
• New User Interface Elements
• Organizational Model
• Help System
• Microsoft Office Add-Ins
• Work Items
• Documents Handling
• Decouple Order Management from Inventory Control

After completing this module, students will be able to:

• Describe the new interface elements in Microsoft Dynamics AX.
• Describe changes to the organization model.
• Use and update the help system.
• Describe the Microsoft Office Add-Ins in Microsoft Dynamics AX.
• View work items that are based on specific business documents in one location.
• Review improvements made to the document handling feature in Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012.
• Discuss the decoupling of order management processes from inventory.
• Describe the required conversion directions and conditions for non-stocked items.

Module 2: Product Information Management

Lessons

• Introduction
• Products
• Configuration Technologies
• Product Masters and Product Variants
• Releasing Products
• Finalizing Released Products

Lab : Creating and Releasing Product Masters

After completing this module, students will be able to:

• Describe the concept of products.
• Describe the variant configuration technology types.
• Describe the concept of product masters and their variants.
• Create and release products to an enterprise.
• Discuss how to finalize a released product.

Module 3: Agreements

Lessons

• Introduction
• Sales and Purchase Agreements
• Trade Agreement Improvements

Lab : Setting up and Following up a Purchase Agreement

After completing this module, students will be able to:

• Describe sales and purchase agreement work.
• Discuss how to create sales and purchase agreements.
• Define sales and purchase agreements.
• Discuss how to use agreements when you create orders.
• Discuss how to follow up on agreements.
• Describe improvements in trade agreements.

Module 4: Intercompany

Lessons

• Introduction
• Intercompany Setup
• Intercompany Reports
• Intercompany Planning

After completing this module, students will be able to:

• Describe the changes in intercompany setup.
• View intercompany goods in transit reports.
• Describe intercompany planning changes.

Module 5: Procurement and Sourcing

Lessons

• Introduction
• Purchase Order and Change Management
• Purchasing Delivery Schedule
• Purchasing Policies
• Catalog and Procurement Site
• Purchase Requisition Enhancements
• Purchase requisition Consolidation
• Vendor Management
• Business Rules for Fixed Assets

Lab : Purchasing PoliciesLab : Employee Purchasing

After completing this module, students will be able to:

• Describe change management for purchase orders.
• Discuss how to set up a delivery schedule on a purchase order.
• Discuss the purpose and usage of purchasing policies.
• Discuss category management, catalogs, and employee purchasing.
• Describe the purchase requisition process from preparation through review, to purchase order generation.
• Describe purchase requisition consolidation.
• Discuss vendor management and the vendor self-service portal.
• Discuss business rules for fixed assets.

Module 6: Manufacturing and Scheduling

Lessons

• Introduction
• Operations Resource Model
• Resource Scheduling Improvements
• Period Templates

Lab : Resource Requirements on a RouteLab : Performing Resource Scheduling

After completing this module, students will be able to:

• Discuss how to set up resources.
• Describe how resource requirements are defined on routes.
• Discuss how to perform resource scheduling and describe the basic resource allocation principles.
• Describe the concept of using a period template to define schedules.

Module 7: Lean Manufacturing

Lessons

• Introduction
• Production Flow
• Kanban Board
• Mixed Mode
• Event Kanbans
• Subcontracting

After completing this module, students will be able to:

• Describe a new way to model Lean Manufacturing based on production flows.
• View the kanban boards and its controls.
• Describe mixed mode manufacturing.
• Discuss event driven kanbans and the single piece flow.
• Explain subcontracting.

Module 8: Time and Attendance, and Manufacturing Execution

Lessons

• Introduction
• Time and Attendance
• Manufacturing Execution
• Common Features

Lab : Touch Enabled Registration

After completing this module, students will be able to:

• View the workflow for worker registrations.
• Describe the supervisor options available in manufacturing execution for moving jobs, prioritizing jobs, and correcting jobs.
• Discuss how Touch Enabled Registration works.
• Discuss how to set up and work with Document groups.
• Provide an overview of list pages in time and attendance and manufacturing execution.

Module 9: Product Configurator

Lessons

• Introduction
• Build a Product Configuration Model
• Prepare a Model for Release
• Product Configuration

After completing this module, students will be able to:

• Discuss how to build a product configuration model.
• Describe how to prepare and release a model to sales.
• Discuss how to use a product configuration tool for sales orders.

Module 10: Process Manufacturing

Lessons

• Introduction
• Process manufacturing feature overview
• Catch weight
• Product information management improvements
• Inventory and warehousing management improvements
• Procurement and sourcing and Sales and marketing improvements
• Production control and Master planning improvements
• Process industries reports overview

After completing this module, students will be able to:

• Review the changes made for catch weights as part of the process manufacturing industry solution.
• Review the features and benefits of the process manufacturing industries solution.
• Review the changes made to the Product information management module as part of the process manufacturing industry solution.
• Review the changes made to the Inventory and warehouse management module as part of the process manufacturing industry solution.
• Review the changes made to the Procurement and sourcing module and Sales and marketing module as part of the process manufacturing industry solution.
• Review the changes made to the Production control and Master Planning modules and as part of the process manufacturing industry solution
• Review the features and benefits of the Process manufacturing reports.