Microsoft Dynamics AX Customers with Lean Manufacturing Needs Welcome Enhancements of AX 2012

Each day manufacturing companies have to address the challenges of economic pressures and globalization, not to mention environmental regulations.

With Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012, Microsoft has provided capabilities that, it believes, manufacturers need to deal with those challenges, according to a Dynamics AX customer presenting at a recent online meeting of the AX User Group.

Based on the five principles of lean manufacturing, Dynamics AX 2012 enables manufacturers to view and apply different manufacturing processes, including MRP (material requirements planning) in their ERP system, the presenter told the assembled group.

Those lean manufacturing principles are:

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