INDUSA Successfully Conducts Webinar on “What’s New in AX 2012 for the Process Industry?”

Oakbrook Terrace, IL, September 28, 2011: INDUSA presented a comprehensive webinar on what’s new in AX 2012, specifically for the process industry. The webinar shed light on how Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 can help companies, fuel efficiency, reduce risk across the entire organization, meet complex inventory requirements, gain insight into costs and process efficiency and respond quickly to changing market conditions.

According to the webinar presented jointly by Sanjay Savkur, Director, Business Development, INDUSA, and Dan Fiorito, Business Development Manager, INDUSA, Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 for Process Industries can help companies optimize operations and support compliance with legal, regulatory, and market requirements, satisfy customers thereby increasing market share, and get competitive advantage. They also provided insight on how it can

Fuel efficiency and reduce risk

Boost connectivity and communication among peers

Gain insight through statistics and graphs into costs and process efficiency

Meet complex inventory requirements and compliance regulations

Respond quickly to the volatile market conditions

The webinar consisted of a brief overview about how AX 2012 is different from its previous versions, followed by the challenges faced by the Process industry. Dan gave a detailed overview on how AX 2012 can be enhanced to mitigate these problems. Additionally, he briefed the attendees about the installation, licensing and upgrade procedure for AX 2012. In the end, a short Q & A session was conducted wherein some specific questions and concerns were addressed by Sanjay.

Here are excerpts of some of the questions and relevant answers in Q&A session:

Participant: Does the AX 2012 Business Ready solution include AX for Process Industry and Process Distribution, which required additional licenses per concurrent user, in AX 2009?

INDUSA: AX 2012 has done architectural changes. AX for Process Industry is available as Model which needs to be imported using the AX 2012 setup. No separate licenses are now required.

Participant: My unit has both discrete as well as process manufacturing activities. How is AX 2012 beneficial to me compared to AX 2009?

INDUSA: You can run hybrid manufacturing model using AX 2012 within the same instance and this is due to the significant architectural changes done in AX 2012

Participant: My raw materials are of natural origin – agricultural - and there is significant variation from lot to lot; how does AX 2012 help me address this situation?

INDUSA: AX 2012 has enhanced the features for Catch weight at all levels, Better Cost Allocation model, Better Commodity Pricing, Changed Product Attributes & Batch Attributes, and Potency or concentration based scheduling as well as pricing.

All the above features help in better costing of raw materials, co-products and by-products and handling the variations.

For all those who could not attend the webinar, we have a webcast uploaded right here! Learn about how Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 is purpose-built for organizations in process manufacturing delivering industry-specific capabilities out-of-the-box. Get comprehensive insight into how AX 2012 uniquely combines industry-specific capabilities in one solution and makes them available to all customers, benefiting organizations that require capabilities for more than one industry. Also, get to know Dynamics AX as a familiar, flexible, and financially compelling platform which is best suited to optimize your operations. Register for the webcast here.