Using financial dimensions with Lean manufacturing
There’s a little trick, or rather, limitation, to using financial dimensions with Lean Manufacturing. You can get the dimensions to come through for most everything in the process by using the correct...
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Using AX with “Block editing” of Routes enabled
I’ve been getting some questions lately concerning the “Block editing” of routes functionality in Dynamics AX (Production control | Setup | Production control parameters). This is useful functionality,...
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Using AX with “Block editing” of BOM’s enabled
I’ve had some questions come in lately regarding the use of the “Block editing” function in the Bill of materials setup (Inventory management | Setup | Inventory and warehouse management parameters)....
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Error when modifying existing Purchase order Delivery schedules –"Line number...
I’ve recently come across a couple of customers that were having issues modifying previously created Purchase order Delivery schedules. This typically happens if we have at least 2 items on a purchase...
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Enable Lookup and search customer through real-time-service
In some scenarios, some Retailers happened to have a large number of customers back in their AX HQ database and they don’t want to synchronize all of them to the channel database, in other cases, at...
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MPOS Adding a New Product to a Category Listing
In MPOS if you want to use categories, catalogs must be setup and validated. See the below TechNet article on setting up Catalogs https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj728723.aspx See the...
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How to: Add a new relation for a new field to the same table to which a...
In Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012, the EDT relations were moved to tables and the creation of a new EDT relation is not possible anymore. This implies that only table relations can be added to the system....
View ArticleProvide feedback on your AX 2012 R2 and R3 deployments
Please take 5 minutes (for each survey) to share information about your existing AX 2012 R2 and R3 deployment and your update and upgrade plans*. *Update : Moving within same AX versions (For example...
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Dynamics AX – 1099 Tax Updates for 2015
Once again, tax season is right around the corner. As such, I thought I would take a moment to let everyone know that we have released the 2015 1099 updates for Dynamics AX and share some of the...
View ArticleTransaction detail missing from MR reports
After you rebuild the MR data mart, previously generated reports are missing transaction detail. If you try to drill down, the detail is missing. Once the report is re-generated, the transaction detail...
View ArticleStandard cost rounding adjustments posted as at system date and not as at the...
There are many reasons why a customer may need to backdate an inventory transaction e.g. when a count journal is created, if it takes more than a day to count the stock, the journal cannot be...
View ArticleDIXF – Cannot Preview source file – CommunicationException – An error...
Consider a scenario where you are importing data using DIXF, and you get an error when you try to “Preview source file”. 1. The error The error you see looks something like this:...
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Production cost estimates for raw materials that use FIFO valuation...
I recently worked with a customer whom was in the process of implementing the Production control module in Dynamics AX 2012 R3. Specifically they were trying to figure out why costs weren’t being...
View ArticleEnterprise Portal on SharePoint 2013 – form resets
We got several requests when user where complaining that form resets. Ie. User was selecting the customers on customer page, we could see that suddenly the page resets and only first customer has been...
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AX Enterprise Portal – What information and data to collect when you want to...
The aim of this blog post is to provide you with some suggestions on what information and data to collect and provide when opening a Microsoft support case. You can of course use these suggestions in...
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DIXF – AX 2012 R3 KB3061216 – Support for new DIXF entities
We released a useful DIXF Application Hotfix in October 2015 which you may not be familiar with, and as I’ve recently been looking into this for a customer, I thought I would share some details on this...
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Cross-docking product packages in AX2012 R3 CU8 Part 2 Process Flow
AX2012 R3 CU8 introduced exciting new cross-docking functionality for product packages. This first part of this article described the setups that must be in place for cross-docking. This article...
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Cross-docking product packages in AX2012 R3 CU8 Part 1 Setups
AX2012 R3 CU8 introduced exciting new cross-docking functionality for product packages. This article describes the setups that must be in place for cross-docking to work in the warehouse. The 2nd part...
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How to consolidate intercompany vendor invoices
The intercompany transactions are frequently used between sister companies; at the end of the trading cycle the invoicing should take place. Let us assume that there is trading relation between two...
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How to consolidate intercompany customer invoices
Recently I shared a post explaining how to consolidate intercompany vendor invoices. In this post I will cover how to consolidate intercompany customer invoice. In order to achieve the consolidation of...
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