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Connect Sales and Production Complete integration throughout Axapta ensures greater coordination between your Sales and Production departments. Information input by Sales is automatically relayed to Production, and vice versa. Sales reps can check on the status of production for a particular item, and the production team can see when new orders from sales are entered. Sales reps are also better able to give accurate quotations and delivery dates. They simply enter the customer’s criteria, and Product Builder handles the calculations and configuration. In seconds, a full, custom configured product model is created, defining BOMs, routes, costs and expected time of delivery. Connect to Customers Over the Internet Product Builder can be published to the Internet to give your customers the ability to configure their own products. Just like popular online stores, your customers make the adjustments to the product they want to order, click ‘OK’, and then are presented with price calculations and configuration adjustment details. Your customers can even submit multiple orders, monitor production, and check delivery status. Items from their shopping carts can be instantly transmitted to Sales Order in Axapta. Complete Integration The success of product configurators and the value they add to your business can depend on the level of integration with your ERP or MRP system. Product Builder is completely integrated with Axapta. The time and resources saved because of this integration can be applied to other aspects of your business, including negotiating better prices with suppliers, developing new products, and keeping pace with the changing market. Because Product Builder is integrated throughout Axapta, information such as BOMs and related routes are automatically generated. This level of integration also means that system maintenance is minimal because data updates in one part of the system do not need to be repeated. Role-based Permissions Access to the Product Builder product models is handled through the Variable User/Group Setup function. Set up groups such as Production, Sales, Accounting, Executive and Customer. Groups can be subdivided into subgroups, allowing you to control precisely who has access to information. Only the information that you specify is available. For those whose roles span different functions, they can be attached to more than one user group so that they can have access to the product models on different levels. Your engineering staff, for example, will have access to more information than your customers will, but they may also need to have some of the permissions given to Accounting. Contact the Experts Contact your Navision Solution Center to learn more about Microsoft Navision Axapta. The experts there will show you how you can improve your business processes with this remarkable software system. © 2002 Navision a/s, Denmark. All rights reserved. 2
Product Builder Overview Easy to use • Intuitive layout and structure • User-adjustable menus, forms and reports • User-adjustable layout of main tables and journals • Windows commands including ‘copy and paste’ • Direct access to main tables from journals • Advanced sorting and filter options • Built-in user help including an integrated manual • Option to mail and fax directly from Axapta • Application can be run in different languages Configurator • Fully integrated with Axapta sales orders, purchase orders and production • User dialog automatically generated from variable setup on product model • Immediate item configuration based on customer input • Generates production of specific bills of material for each configured item • Can model all complex products • Default values for variables depending on customers and/or inventory items • User profiles on variables to only allow specific users to specify this variable • Reuse of configurations • Generation of item numbers based on the model variables • User selections can be specified on external documents • Price combinations based on product models • Language texts offering user dialogs in preferred languages • Export/import of product models Routing Integration • Allows the creation of production specific routes and job cards for each configured item • Default routes, as templates for the routes created in the product model • Inserts complete default route in product model Validation Rules • Create validation rules for variables, groups of variables and a complete configuration • Create rules that govern the allowed content of variables • Add or remove values from enumerated text variables • Assign values to specific variables based on the content of other variables • Validate values and display an error message build from the condition • Add or remove variables from the user interface based on customer choices • Enable product models to deal with divergent national standards • Validation rules as X++ code • Create rules that govern the allowed content of variables (each variable, for a group of variables, or for all variables in a complete product model) • Assign values to specific variables based on the content of other variables • Add or remove variables from the user interface based on customer choices Advanced Configurations • Creates advanced calculations using X++ programming language • Provides access to all of the tables and classes in your Axapta installation • Makes it possible to create complex formulas for tasks such as the calculation of raw material consumption • Incorporates facts from any Axapta table into your product models 3
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