Search for available putaway location using X++
When receiving products from purchase, production or any other receipt, then most companies wants the system to present a location where the items should be placed. Dynamics AX 2012 have the capability...
View ArticleCreate PDA – Kinder Surprise
Kinder Surprise, (or Kinder Egg’s that is also called) is something that most kids loves. Why ? It contains 3 positive elements, and that are (normally) a surprise, chocolate and a toy. I wanted to...
View ArticleCreate PDA – Kinder Surprise II (for sales and purchase)
In my previous post I wrote about compressing standard location, movement and counting into a single process in Dynamics AX 2012. Today I wanted to show that the my PDA solution also can save time in...
View ArticleDynamics AX 2012 PDA devices in Production
Changing from a paper process to input on a PDA with automatic wireless transmission to the main computer can dramatically boost worker productivity. Any process that involves collecting data using...
View ArticleDynamics AX 2012 SCM: Micro improvements #5
When working with output orders I see some customer struggling with deleting open output orders. They typically have open output like this: When deleting it, they get the following error: The reason...
View ArticleDynamics AX 2012 SCM: Micro improvements #6
In Dynamics AX 2012(and 2009) it is possible to have delivery addresses on both the sales order header, and on the sales order line. But it is also possible to disable the use of delivery addresses per...
View ArticleAX2012 : Centralize product information
At as Dynamics AX consultant I get the chance to work with many customers, and see good idea’s in action. At one particular customer in Norway, that are implementing Dynamics AX 2012 we have been asked...
View ArticleAX 2012 – Negative discounts–Charges for split box delivery ?
In standard AX 2012 it is not possible to have negative discounts. But it is a very small change to actually make it work. Just change the extended data type DiscPct. But why would any allow negative...
View ArticleHow to unit test PDA/Handheld and barcode printing
At a customer implementing my PDA and BarTender add-ons, are currently doing a lot of testing. The following picture shows how one of the implementation consultants are testing this out in “real-life”...
View ArticleAX 2012–Kitting revisited
I wanted to revist the blogpost I created on kitting, since the kitting is now built also for AX 2012. It is a simple and easy to use customization that many of our customers appriciate, spesially...
View ArticleAX2012–Search and you shall find….
I wanted my customers to experience the search powers of Dynamics AX 2012 and Microsoft SQL, and decided to create a very small generic tool for finding items and products. Suppose a user wishes to...
View ArticleInventory counting humor
I received the following from one of my customers. Funny Happy friday and happy Daxing...(read more)
View ArticleShipping Container Labeling guide
Major retailers have identified incorrect logistic unit (pallet) labeling as a major emerging supply chain issue. A recent sample audit found that approximately 44% of pallet labels are not meeting...
View ArticleDynamics AX 2012 architecture for carton, packages and pallets
When shipping goods, there are many requirements that needs to be fulfilled. You have the ability to have correct addresses, customer requirements, freight forwarder requirements and legal...
View ArticleAX2012–GS1-128–delivery labels
My BarTender integration and PDA solution now supports full GS1-128 labels and application identifiers. Pick, ship and send directly from a PDA. Now also available with a overview screen of shipped...
View ArticlePrice : PDA and BarTender integration
Hi. I normally do not want to get too commercial on this blog, but I do get a lot of questions related to price of the PDA and BarTender integration. So instead of filling the “replies” with prices...
View ArticlePDA tools for retail stores
I have several customers with retail stores. So I wanted to create some PDA applications that can be used in the stores, that focuses on supply chain. It actually turned out to be a small module in the...
View ArticleHow to use dynamic date ranges in RoleCenter Cue’s
In Dynamics AX 2012 (and 2009) we have the possibility to add Cue’s to the role center. However, sometimes we would like to have Cue’s that reflect a dynamic time dimension. This is like: Orders today,...
View ArticleReceipt status arrived: The forgotten jewel
There are two ways to learn how Dynamics AX is working. Users can do courses, read manuals, self-training, “try and fail”, blogs etc. Professionals can also read code. Each time Microsoft is releasing...
View ArticleHow to be rich on your Dynamics AX add-ons
First I need to say I’m sorry for the trick headlines. This quick answer is that it is very unlikely to get rich on money by developing Dynamics AX add-ons , and especially if you try to this alone....
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