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If you’re in the business of moving inventory, and the speed, accuracy, and efficiency of each turn is important, then this is the blog for you. Here I write how Warehouse Management & Distribution topics can be solved by Dynamics AX.

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  • Enable database logging on groups and parameters

    Posted 19 days ago
    by Kurt Hatlevik Kurt Hatlevik
    First I would say that I do NOT recommend to enable any database logging, unless it is business important for you, and you need to have a track of parameter changes. But in some cases customers demand to have database logging. I agreed and explained...

  • Master data synchronization using ColumbusSync

    Posted 1 month ago
    by Kurt Hatlevik Kurt Hatlevik
    I wanted to share a nice tool I’m working on for Dynamics AX 2012. It is called ColumbusSync, and solves some requirements we often see at larger enterprises. The ability to quick and easy distribute master data from a master company to a set of “client...

  • Changing the query for an existing CUE

    Posted 1 month ago
    by Kurt Hatlevik Kurt Hatlevik
    In AX 2009 we could change the query behind a personalized CUE. This seams to have been removed from AX 2012. But we that can develop, still have a chance, using X++. Run the following job script, and you will get the query up, so that you can change...

  • AX2012 : Use queries as criteria

    Posted 2 months ago
    by Kurt Hatlevik Kurt Hatlevik
    In Dynamics AX 2012 the relation between different records is often defined as a “table-group-all” relation. One example of this is the setup of supplementary items, where you can define the relation as a Table-Group-All relation. Even though this approach...

  • Reservation sequence in AX 2012

    Posted 3 months ago
    by Kurt Hatlevik Kurt Hatlevik
    I have received some questions on how does Dynamics AX 2012 decide what on-hand to select when reserving. Some thinks it is the inventory model (FIFO etc), but it is not. Some times it can seam like AX 2012 has … Continue reading →

  • Can Dynamics AX 2012 talk ?

    Posted 4 months ago
    by Kurt Hatlevik Kurt Hatlevik
    I was playing around on some with some of the classes, and I found a small thing that I wanted to share with the community. How to enable the speech synthesizer in Dynamics AX 2012. (This is the core essence of the “virtual burger” demo) Here is the...

  • Dynamics AX 2012 and BarTender Commander

    Posted 4 months ago
    by Kurt Hatlevik Kurt Hatlevik
    I have previously blogged on the BarTender integration to Dynamics AX 2012 . In this blog post I want to take the integration one step further. Sometimes it is not possible to have a BarTender client on each machine. Also in a Terminal Server scenario...

  • How to be rich on your Dynamics AX add-ons

    Posted 5 months ago
    by Kurt Hatlevik Kurt Hatlevik
    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. However, what you will be is much richer in experience...

  • Receipt status arrived: The forgotten jewel

    Posted 5 months ago
    by Kurt Hatlevik Kurt Hatlevik
    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 a new version I try to read the code for better understanding...

  • How to use dynamic date ranges in RoleCenter Cue’s

    Posted 5 months ago
    by Kurt Hatlevik Kurt Hatlevik
    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, Orders yesterday etc. What we then can do is...

  • PDA tools for retail stores

    Posted 6 months ago
    by Kurt Hatlevik Kurt Hatlevik
    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 PDA solution. The retail menu is optimized for...

  • Price : PDA and BarTender integration

    Posted 6 months ago
    by Kurt Hatlevik Kurt Hatlevik
    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 here we go: This is a example of 10 PDA users and...

  • AX2012–GS1-128–delivery labels

    Posted 7 months ago
    by Kurt Hatlevik Kurt Hatlevik
    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 SSCC : And use the Microsoft Bing to visualize...

  • Dynamics AX 2012 architecture for carton, packages and pallets

    Posted 8 months ago
    by Kurt Hatlevik Kurt Hatlevik
    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 requirements. To solve this we have many different “systems” in...

  • Shipping Container Labeling guide

    Posted 8 months ago
    by Kurt Hatlevik Kurt Hatlevik
    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 agreed upon industry requirements. The issues they face...

  • Inventory counting humor

    Posted 8 months ago
    by Kurt Hatlevik Kurt Hatlevik
    I received the following from one of my customers. Funny Happy friday and happy Daxing

  • AX2012–Search and you shall find….

    Posted 8 months ago
    by Kurt Hatlevik Kurt Hatlevik
    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 find an item, and it does not know its item number...

  • AX 2012–Kitting revisited

    Posted 8 months ago
    by Kurt Hatlevik Kurt Hatlevik
    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 since it is included in the same model as the Centralized...

  • How to unit test PDA/Handheld and barcode printing

    Posted 8 months ago
    by Kurt Hatlevik Kurt Hatlevik
    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” : All is barcoded and the barcodes is available...

  • AX 2012 – Negative discounts–Charges for split box delivery ?

    Posted 9 months ago
    by Kurt Hatlevik Kurt Hatlevik
    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 discounts ? In many industries they have...

  • AX2012 : Centralize product information

    Posted 9 months ago
    by Kurt Hatlevik Kurt Hatlevik
    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 to replicate some functionality from their old system...

  • Dynamics AX 2012 SCM: Micro improvements #6

    Posted 9 months ago
    by Kurt Hatlevik Kurt Hatlevik
    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 sales order line, by disable the configuration key...

  • Dynamics AX 2012 SCM: Micro improvements #5

    Posted 9 months ago
    by Kurt Hatlevik Kurt Hatlevik
    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 for this, it that deleting a output order...

  • Dynamics AX 2012 PDA devices in Production

    Posted 10 months ago
    by Kurt Hatlevik Kurt Hatlevik
    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 paper documents is potentially a candidate for a mobile...

  • Create PDA – Kinder Surprise II (for sales and purchase)

    Posted 11 months ago
    by Kurt Hatlevik Kurt Hatlevik
    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 purchase and sales scenario’s. If there is one thing...
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