Discrete Manufacturing Advanced in Microsoft Dynamics® AX 2012

At Course Completion

• Review multisite functionality for the Production control module
• List the Production control module's core conceptual elements
• Review the Bill of material (BOM)
• Review calendars and resources
• Review operations and routes
• Describe production life cycle, parameters, and production orders
• Review definitions of operations and job scheduling
• Review how master planning interacts with the Production control module
• Describe product, storage and tracking dimensions
• Explain how to set up and work with dimensions groups
• Describe using serial or batch numbers to track and control manufactured items
• Use inventory reservations in production
• Describe inventory marking
• Describe the inventory trace function
• Describe how inventory dimensions are affected by multisite functionality
• Describe working with the Bill of Materials (BOM) line type Vendor when using subcontractors
• Describe how to generate purchase orders to a supplier when on-hand inventory is insufficient
• Describe how to create a vendor production order
• Create resources and groups for the vendor
• Define production groups to establish a relationship between production orders and ledger accounts.
• Describe how to use production pools to monitor production orders in specific categories.
• Describe properties-set up on the working time template-which guide production orders to run under special times and conditions.
• Attach a property to a resource.
• Review the benefits of properties.
• Describe how resource capabilities are set up and used to schedule production on alternative resources.
• Create route groups and attach them to operations on a route.
• Use the various scheduling methods.
• Discuss the difference between operations and job scheduling.
• Split a production order.
• Set the Bill of Material (BOM) scrap percentages.
• Set the scrap percentage on a Resource.
• Set the scrap percentage for each operation in production routes.
• Describe the costing of scrap.
• Review steps in the production order life cycle
• Describe production order ledger setting options
• Define default ledger settings in production parameters
• Describe production journals and how consumption is reported to the general ledger
• Assign ledger settings for production groups
• Analyze actual versus estimated costs for production orders and current production activities
• Describe End and cost account production orders
• Describe the interconnectivity of the production module with other modules in Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012
• Describe the main elements of the production implementation checklist
• Set up production parameters
• Modify data types used by the productions series
• Set up item groups and items
• Set up BOMs
• Describe the creation of working time templates, calendars, Resource groups, and Resources
• Set up operations and routes

Course Requirements:

Students looking to take this course (80315) must already have the following technical knowledge:

• General knowledge of Microsoft® Windows®.
• Completed the Introduction to Microsoft Dynamics®AX 2012 course.
• The ability to use Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 for basic processing.
• Basic knowledge of manufacturing, trade and logistics, and inventory management concepts.