The complixity of Bill of Materials, Route operations, and multiple production modes are commonly seen in machinery manufacturing industry. Among the huge component data and production modes, it is not easy by manually complete a proper production planning and scheduling, this is one of the limitation constrains the productivity. From the finance perspective, to estimate the product cost more accurately, and analyzing the production costing are usually headaches to enterprises.

The Microsoft Dynamics AX machinery manufacturing solutions fully integrates from product master data, supply chains, and to financial costing. By using this AX ERP system handle the various data to satify the differentiated management on the multiple production modes, it improves the accurancy on planning and scheduling, enhance the ability on cost management; and eventually power on the competitiveness and gains customer satisfaction in the market.

——Flexible configuration, automatic generates BOM, Route via Product Designer

The AX product designer is able to automatically generates BOM and Route base on the predefined conditions configured, this will simplifies the reacts to customer's requirement, by changing the components to the configuration, it will reduce data processing rely on the designer staffs, and then improves their efficiency.

Based on different conditions, system allow to set muptiple rules for designer to designing products, for sales man to get quotations, and also, when placing an order, to automatically generates BOM and Route.

Multiple versions management to BOM and Route helps designer to track the changes to product, from the stages of R&D, quotation, sample product and to mass production, enterprise are more accurately to managing product data in terms of different needs.

--Planning and scheduling in different production modes

Integrated with the advanced planning function of AX ERP, it can automate production planning and scheduling to help companies improve operational efficiency and rationalize production capacity. To complete the production tasks at the right time, the right quantity and the right price. Meet customer demand.

Whether it is production by order, production by inventory, or planning forecast, the system provides planning information for different production modes based on a variety of plan customization settings. Production and material scheduling personnel can reasonably arrange material demand plan and production scheduling plan according to the system output information.

For products with set safety stock, the system will automatically plan production orders for products with stock below the safety stock; for products produced by order, the system will generate production plans based on specific orders, and planners can also run plan checks to track planned orders at any time. During the production process, changes such as insertion orders and plan adjustments can be updated by the planner at any time, and AX's powerful planning and scheduling features help the planner to push or reverse the production plan according to various planning directions.

For large equipment in the machinery manufacturing process, the system generated plan can help planners to clearly view the capacity of different equipment, grasp the entire production dynamic, and adjust the plan in a timely manner.

--Project-based management

Whether it is an internal R&D project or an external project-based custom product. In AX machinery manufacturing industry solution, from project initiation, project budget, to project process events, production process, project plan management, project delivery, project service, AX carries out the whole process control and management. Based on this data composition, it provides a complete and detailed data support for managers to track and analyze projects.

--Accurate cost analysis based on standard and actual comparison

Based on AX's powerful product data management capabilities, AX is able to perform accurate costing for each product. Cost controllers can estimate the product cost based on the BOM and ROUTE during product development, sales staff can quote based on the product cost during quotation, and actual costing based on the actual production input after the actual production is completed.

The ability to easily and quickly update the product BOM and ROUTE allows the entire costing to be based on the product composition of a specific order, making the costing more accurate. Finance staff can check cost distribution based on various reports, and design and production staff can improve products and reduce product costs more effectively.