Nottingham (PRWEB UK) 22 March 2012 Columbus today announced the publishing of Food Products Manufacturing using Microsoft Dynamics AX. The latest book by Columbus senior consultant and author Scott Hamilton discusses the details for maximizing Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 in food product businesses. The book focuses on how provides an integrated ERP system to support the business practices of food product manufacturing and distribution firms. According to Dr. Hamilton, the book was written for companies considering or implementing Microsoft Dynamics AX as their ERP solution.
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The book contents provide a complete walk through of functionality related to operations and supply chain management and numerous case studies highlight solutions to common issues. The book is ideal for firms involved in a system selection process and can help reduce selection risk, evaluate system fit and customizations and provide a vision for an integrated system. According to Columbus CEO Thomas Honore, “We work hard to develop and deliver useful content like this to make our customers and prospects more competitive - it is part of our commitment to and investment in the markets we serve.” Columbus is widely recognized as a global leader in maximizing efficiency and business performance for companies within the. “We in Microsoft Business Solutions are excited to see Scott providing thought leadership for effectively using Microsoft Dynamics AX to manage a manufacturing business and gain ROI, this time focusing on food products manufacturing“stated Kirill Tatarinov, President, Microsoft Business Solutions. The book additionally provides numerous business processes related to food product operations, developed as part of the pioneering work at Columbus and incorporated into their tool set.
Food Products Manufacturing by Scott Hamilton is available on About Columbus With solid industry know-how, Columbus is a preferred business partner for ambitious companies within the food, retail and manufacturing sectors. Columbus’ key deliverables include flexible and future-safe ERP, CRM, BI and related business applications that deliver competitive advantage. We know how to adapt and implement our proven Microsoft-based solution sets to maximize efficiency and overall business performance – for immediate impact. Exceeding 20 years of experience and 6.000 successful business cases, Columbus currently employs over 1.000 dedicated staff working out of 41 offices in 21 countries. Read more at About Scott Hamilton Scott Hamilton consults and teaches globally on SCM and ERP issues, and has consulted with several hundred food product businesses.
He authored Maximizing Your ERP System and six previous books about Microsoft Dynamics AX. Scott has won the prestigious Microsoft MVP award for Dynamics AX, and earned a doctorate in information systems specializing in manufacturing. He is currently employed by Columbus where he consults with food manufacturing clients worldwide.
By News Editor If you didn't hear much from Microsoft Dynamics AX manufacturing guru for the last year, it's probably because he was hard at work on his latest book,. The book has been available for pre-order for a while, but it begins shipping this week and has been seeing rave reviews so far (all eight Amazon reviews are five stars as of publishing this article). Hamilton, who is now with and focusing on the food products industry, answered some questions for us on writing the new book, the importance of AX 2012, and the industries and manufacturing topics that are catching his attention moving forward. This book represents a year's worth of work. What were the most salient aspects of your research and writing? The book topics and prior research focused on using AX 2012 for supply chain management (SCM) in manufacturing and distribution firms. This involved a complete review of AX 2012 capabilities and thousands of pages of documentation and training materials.
With few exceptions, only those capabilities personally tested and proven were included in the book contents. The same approach was used for my previous AX books.
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This takes a tremendous amount of time. The selection of book topics and case studies was guided by an 80/20 rule about dominant business practices in food products manufacturing, and reflected my own field experience as well as discussions with other experienced field consultants.
What is your biggest impression about AX 2012 compared to previous versions? My biggest impression would differ for various audiences. Let's start with those people already knowledgeable about the previous AX 2009 version. The new SCM capabilities within AX 2012 represent a 10% change in the embedded conceptual models (as described in a ) so that you can build on the 90% you already know. With the new user interface, it also takes a while to reorient yourself about the navigational details for accessing what you already know.
For those people new to Dynamics AX - such as those individuals considering or implementing AX as their ERP system - my biggest impression would be the increasingly comprehensive out-of-the-box functionality. The incremental changes have accelerated with each release of Dynamics AX over the past ten years, and reflect Microsoft's significant R&D investments in functional and technical innovation.
This observation applies to the capabilities for food product businesses. It also applies to the capabilities for other industries such as equipment manufacturing, retail and service-oriented businesses. What are some of the new AX 2012 capabilities that represent significant opportunities for increased value or competitive advantage? The significance of new capabilities will differ based on an organization's requirements.
A global firm with multisite operations, for example, can benefit from the simplification of intercompany orders and master scheduling across a multicompany supply chain. The additional functionality within sales order and purchase order processing - and the related portals for customers and vendors - can help improve coordination with trading partners.
Numerous aspects of simplified system usage can help firms implement faster, especially when they have simplified operations such as many food product manufacturers. Other firms may benefit from the new capabilities related to security, workflows, the definition of resource requirements within a routing, or the enhanced integration with Microsoft Excel such as spreadsheets about forecasts or budgets. How have the improvements in AX 2012 positioned the product to compete in the ERP marketplace, especially for process manufacturers?
This is a difficult question to answer because I do not have the same level of in-depth knowledge about competitive offerings. I can say that the comprehensive out-of-the-box functionality within AX 2012 does an excellent job of meeting most requirements of process manufacturers. We have successfully competed and won against the other offerings in numerous instances. Dynamics AX is easier to use and implement according to those people having experience with AX and the other packages.
And the improvements keep coming. As noted earlier, the incremental improvements have accelerated with each release of Dynamics AX. This is your seventh book on Microsoft Dynamics AX. What have been the dominant themes across these books? My series of books about Dynamics AX reflect the evolving software functionality and my evolving understanding of how to use the software.
The first three books covered supply chain management in a broad cross-section of manufacturing and distribution firms, and reflected the previous releases of Dynamics AX 3.0, AX 4.0 and AX 2009. In contrast with a broad approach, the newest book focuses on just one industry - food products manufacturing - in terms of book topics and case studies. A similar focus characterized my three books about using AX to manage process manufacturing, lean manufacturing and wholesale distribution.
What are the plans for your next AX book? The next book will probably focus on supply chain management in one type of discrete manufacturing such as industrial equipment. This enables me to focus the book topics and case studies. The significant enhancements within AX 2012 have addressed many unique requirements of equipment manufacturers, and the book topics would include projects and product configurators for custom products as well as kanban orders and service orders.