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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.

Manufacturing Mining Equipment Management Processes Get Streamlined

Looking back, the manufacturing mining equipment business once only involved delivery of machinery and components. Today, it seems to have evolved into so much more. I believe a new business model has emerged and it has transformed manufacturers into full service providers.

What’s the key element spurring on this evolution? A focus on streamlining manufacturing business processes – both internal and external.

Enterprise Resource Planning in the Cloud: Addressing The Cons

Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) in the Cloud is creating a lot of buzz among industry professionals – for both its ability to reduce costs and capability for rapid implementation. (Note – For rapid implementation proof,  you can read my recent blog post – or request the video to the right – where you will see a full Microsoft Dynamics ERP cloud implementation in 30 minutes or less.)

But among the industry excitement lie some legitimate industry concerns – particularly among larger companies.

Video: Enterprise Resource Planning in the Cloud In 30 Minutes Or Less

How Quickly Can ERP Be Implemented Into The Cloud? Find Out In New Video

A cloud won’t carry a storm until each of the right elements are integrated and in place.  But as any good storm-chaser knows, these elements can come together with extraordinary speed.  Can we say the same about our virtual cloud when it comes to implementing Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP)?

While the importance of ERP implementation may capture the buzz, what is often not discussed is the speed in which this integration should take place.

Video Case Study: Microsoft Dynamics The One True Path Towards Global Expansion

See How Microsoft Dynamics Empowers Global Expansion In Our New Video Case Study

For an Industrial Equipment Manufacturer (IEM) to expand into more territories, it must be supported by software that can just as easily expand into the world of ‘Germany’ as it can into the world of ‘accounting.’

Until recently, QPI Group, a Netherlands-based global manufacturer specializing in printed circuit boards, operated under a sense of contradiction. It was running a truly global operation – with offices in the Netherlands, Belgium and China – but its software simply would not support the company’s vision of further expansion.

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