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e-Con Stand Alone

  • Portable computing devices e-Con also offers a Smart Client application that can be run offline on portable computing devices.

Product Center

  • Important features Product Center introduces important features to Microsoft Dynamics AX, including extended product descriptions, specifications, classifications. read more »
  • Important features Product Center introduces important features to Microsoft Dynamics AX, including extended product descriptions, specifications, classifications. read more »

e-Con for Microsoft Dynamics NAV

  • Full integration Con offers full integration with Microsoft Dynamics NAV and works directly with your ERP system database.
  • Replicate data Replicate any data from Microsoft Dynamics NAV to the offline client, then synchronize quotes, projects, or any other information that you've configured offline back into the ERP system.

Advanced Manufacturing

  • Manage data User-friendly tool to manage data for manufacturing parts.
  • Manage data User-friendly tool to manage data for manufacturing parts.

Streamline category management,\n and supply chain processes

  • Catalog feature Use the catalog feature, external product databases (including suppliers databases) to search or research tasks, without the need to create item entries in a standard Microsoft Dynamics AX item table. read more »
  • Characterizations Item Specification makes it easy for you to use templates for characterizations and includes a powerful search engine. read more »

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Top 5 Must-Read Books on Microsoft Dynamics for IEM Professionals

Top 5 Microsoft Dynamics BooksAs a manufacturer, you rely on multiple sources of information and insights to help you grow your business. Although we use mostly digital references, let’s not forget sources, including paper books.

To this point, I thought it would be a good idea to put together a top list of books on Microsoft Dynamics for manufactures. Each covers different areas and ways to get you to grow and manage your processes. Let me know your thoughts on these books and what you like most about them.

5 Microsoft Dynamics Books for Manufacturing Professionals

Flowcharting With Microsoft Dynamics Workflow

Some think in terms of data. Others think of the same data, but require a visual representation of the information. For those who require visual confirmation of manufacturing business operations and processes, Microsoft Dynamics Workflow incorporates flowcharting into it’s features.

This helps both sides of the brain visualize and analyze the big picture. For a more detailed look at what this gives your manufacturing business, let’s take a deeper look at the merger of processing and visual decision-making.

Microsoft Dynamics Workflow Flowcharting

The flow of data in a manufacturing business is never ending. This data, along with how it impacts processes needs a visual representation of its “flow.”

Microsoft Dynamics Workflow: How to Create an Audit Trail

ROI Audit Button [Full Disclosure: Part of To-Increase’s business is based on the sale of Microsoft Dynamics software, of which one of its most useful features is audit trail capability. This post explains what an audit trail is and how this Microsoft product can streamline manufacturing practices.]

Understanding what’s happening in your manufacturing business isn’t just nice to know – it’s critical. This requires data and lots of it. If you are not capturing that data, then you need to rethink your streamlining strategy.

Microsoft Dynamics Video Case Study: Managing Manufacturing Processes From End-To-End & Into The Unknown

See How Microsoft Dynamics Is Helping Manage & Manufacture The Unknown In New Video

How can a manufacturing project be accurately budgeted if the solution being created has never before existed?

Just as importantly, how can the details that help shape the answer to our first all important question efficiently reach all necessary stakeholders – throughout the globe?

(If you’re like me, and would like to skip ahead to see the answer, stop reading now and complete the form to the right to download our latest Microsoft Dynamics video case study.)

Learning To Love Mobile Warehouse & Retail Supply Chain Management

The mobile device has emerged as your most important retail store associate.

This is suggested by a recent article published by M.V. Greene of Stores.org titled, The Changing Face of Retail.

Greene rightly notes within his article that by using mobile technology, whether it be a Smartphone or an Android, the customer can absorb as much product information as can be shared by the traditional retail associate.  Likely – even more so.  As such, the traditional role of the retail store associate – from all-knowing product expert – could be seen as quickly devolving into a relic.

The Clarifying Power of Enterprise Resource Planning In A Post-Recession World

Recently, we’ve shared quite a bit of content pointing to manufacturing recovery.  And while these signals are notable, from increases in manufacturing output to more consistent job growth, many manufacturers I work with still see these signals as fuzzy at best.

Below, I’ve turned to Bob Aronson, Industry Director – Microsoft Dynamics Manufacturing, to share his take on the still somewhat unclear manufacturing recovery outlook – and to offer his insight regarding how enterprise resource planning – and enterprise resource planning software – can help clarify this picture:

Retail Supply Chain Management Case Study: Microsoft Dynamics Eliminates Software Over-Visibility

Retail stakeholders rely on software for supply chain visibility – whether it’s the warehouse manager searching for the right product to pick or the customer searching for the right product to purchase.

Ironically, when retailers and retail customers must rely on several different software systems – simply to find one piece of information – data visibility quickly yields to troubling software over-visibility.

This was the issue facing SparKjøp, Norway’s largest mail order firm, and the subject of the latest Microsoft Dynamics AX case study.

Microsoft Dynamics: Flexible ERP Software Seeks Competition

Having just recently returned from Microsoft Dynamics Convergence, I was thrilled to read this write up by Josh Greenbaum of Information Week, who covered the event:

“Microsoft Dynamics AX ERP has reached a functional level that basically places them on par with the best of their respective categories.”

Greenbaum goes on to write:

“Starting approximately in 2013, only Microsoft will be able to offer pretty much any possible deployment model of its [ERP] software from a single code-base.

Breaking ERP Software News: What Lawson’s Acquisition Should Mean For You

Headlines broke this week when it was announced that Lawson Software, provider of business application and Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) software, has agreed to be acquired by GGC Software Holdings (an affiliate of Golden Gate Capital and Infor.)

You can read several takes on the story below:

This news has sent customers, both those currently with Lawson and those considering Lawson, into a bit of a scramble mode.  I have personally heard questions including:

  • What will the future of Lawson look like?

Video Case Study: Microsoft Dynamics AX vs. Eight Figure Competition

See How Microsoft Dynamics AX Is Helping Support Met-Pro's Vision of Fourfold Growth.

Must a large manufacturing company invest in an eight-figure software implementation to grow and remain competitive?

This was the critical question facing Met-Pro, a global provider of product recovery, pollution control and fluid handling application solutions.  I first introduced you to them through a newly released Microsoft Dynamics AX case study. Today, I’m proud to share more of Met-Pro’s story with you, courtesy of a new video released by Microsoft Dynamics.

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