View the Demo below to see how you can leverage the built-in capabilities of the Microsoft Dynamics AX Product Configurator as well as Configurable Workflows. These capabilities enable product and process differentiation for your Design to Order and Engineer to Order products.
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Bonus Depreciation Provision for Businesses (2010-2012) – US
President Obama signed House Bill H.R. 4853 (Tax Relief, Unemployment Insurance Reauthorization, and Job Creation Act of 2010) into law on December 17, 2010. H.R. 4853 includes a two-part extension of the bonus depreciation provision for all businesses, regardless of size. The potential tax benefits make a strong business case for consideration to act sooner rather than later if your organization is contemplating a technology solution.
For real innovation, implement Next Practices, not Best Practices!
Most companies will embark on an effort either internally or directed by outside consultancies to implement “Best Practices”. However, is this the best path to real innovation? Recent research suggests the answer may be a resounding No. Instead of being content with practicing Kaizen, or continuous improvement, why not practice Kaikaku, or radical change to make a real leap ahead of your competition?
The Secret to Making Manual Sales Set Changes
I have preached about the power of Sales Set functionality at CWG Conferences. One of the best features of Sales Sets is the ability for a user to make ad hoc, manual changes to the configurable sale BOM structure. I saw a post on the CWG Forum tonight where a user made these settings but was still unable to make manual changes to the sales BOM. If your configuration profile is sales set and you have allowed manual changes, you can manually change the sales BOM items BUT unfortunately you must make changes in the Result screen of configuration, not in the sales order itself. I don’t know of any users that find this to be intuitive (but it is what it is). Advanced users can leverage this feature to make design-to-order changes in the sales structure similar to the way that order BOMs allow design-to-order changes in the manufacturing structure. Note that once an item is manually changed or deleted, no automatic updates will be made to that item if the configuration is later changed. Be advised that manual sales set changes can behave in a quirky manner if you are manually changing items that were specialized from a class node.
New and Improved PMEVC
I just saw some great news from SAP. A new and improved version of the PMEVC model maintenance transaction is now available in ERP 6.0 Enhancement Package 5. There are some great new features that are described in the following CWG new article.
The Material Variant Trap
Have you ever created a material variant with the wrong configurable material? For example, you want to create material X as a variant of material Y but you specify material Z instead by mistake. Unfortunately SAP does not allow you to change the configurable material assignment after you save the material variant master. By the time you realize the mistake, it is too late to change. Or is it?
Setting and Unsetting Default Values
Let’s start with an easy one. Setting and unsetting default values in SAP VC procedures can be a little tricky. Whereas conditionally inferred values are revoked when their condition is no longer satisfied, the same is not true for values set by default. What does that mean? Perhaps an example will help to explain:
