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The role is for a Microsoft Partner in Dubai. The role is a full time position based in Dubai with first year to be with high frequency travel to Doha – Qatar. The package will be based on the strength and experience of the candidate. SUMMARY: S/he is responsible for the design, configuration & testing of the Microsoft Dynamics AX Supply Chain processes. The Microsoft Dynamics AX Supply Chain consultant is expected to apply advanced analysis skills and experience to define appropriate solutions, develop detailed design specifications and test application delivery for Microsoft Dynamics AX implementation. S/he must be able to thrive in a team environment and enjoy working with others to find creative solutions to our business needs. Should have the strong Business Analysis skills and capable of working with teams to configure Microsoft Dynamics AX solutions that meet/exceed business needs. The ideal candidate will have intimate knowledge of Microsoft Dynamics AX modules (main...

Training mode can be used to test sales transactions and not record the transactions in Dynamics AX.  The cash drawer will not open and credit card, debit card, check and cash transactions will not be processed. View Original Post

You may get into the following situation where trying to attach a document  on a paid "settled" transaction, and the new button is dimmed. View Original Post

The nature of software is that you will have to upgrade or implement at some point. Dynamics AX is no different from any other software system out there. With Microsoft working hard on  Lifecycle Services (LCS)  site, doing an upgrade analysis has gotten a lot easier. Below is a diagram illustrating the process to produce your analysis report (Excel file). View Original Post

Inventory blocking represents a key tool for quality management, such as preventing usage and indicating the need for inspection.  The warehouse management capabilities within Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 R3 support several approaches to inventory blocking, such as the use of quality orders and a blocked value of Inventory Status.  This article reviews the various approaches and related topics for effectively integrating quality and warehouse management View Original Post

Are you wondering how to use the new beta feature just shipped called Lifecycle services Crash and hang analysis? This blog will help you get started: View Original Post

Microsoft Dynamics Marketing  is an integrated marketing management solution for marketing operation, planning, execution, and analytics across all channels—digital, social, and traditional. It enables marketing teams to plan, execute, and measure marketing campaigns across channels, from start to finish, to bring marketing vision to life. Today, we’re very excited to share with you a fantastic new analytic capability that we are adding to the  Power BI  product that targets specifically the Role of a Demand Generation Manager with  Microsoft Dynamics Marketing . View Original Post

Hosted by MSX Group, a Microsoft partner the specializes in Corporate Performance Management (CPM), this conference will focus on both beginner and advanced user training and tips to help you get the most out of Management Reporter. To learn more about this free online conference or to register, visit the  MSX Group website . View Original Post

Management Reporter 2012 CU12 has been posted for download. This is a quality release focusing on bug fixes only. View Original Post You can find the download for Management Reporter CU12 here

IMPORTANT  As previously announced in July 2014 through the  Partner News Update email newsletter , there are changes to exam requirements beginning  March 1, 2015  for SPA, CSA, and MPN Competencies (this date was previously communicated as January 1, 2015).  As part of these pro​grams' ongoing lifecycle, exam requirements are regularly updated per program strategy to ensure new versions of Microsoft Dynamics products and their associated technical exams and sales assessments are included in these requirements.  To reflect this, all partners must be on current product versions of exams for Microsoft Dynamics CRM (2013 or 2015) and Microsoft Dynamics AX (2012 or 2012 R3) starting March 1, 2015 to be able to order and claim fees. Full details can be found below; https://mbs.microsoft.com/partnersource/northamerica/readiness-training/readiness-training-news/MSDexamreqchanges

Would you like to see how a productive, effective, and successful (real-world!) software development team works, from code to customer? Watch Northwest Cadence experts Steven Borg and James Tupper as they focus on getting to production faster, creating quality software, and understanding the big picture, in this in-depth, demo-rich, and end-to-end look at application lifecycle management (ALM), including prioritization, commitment, implementation, deployment, testing, and (finally) release. Find out how to deliver high-quality code in fast delivery cycles, get continuous feedback from customers to guide future features, learn the language you need to "have the helpful conversation" with management, and make design and process decisions so that last test validation becomes a mere formality. From DevOps and continuous delivery, to quality and project management (both general reporting and day-to-day prioritization), with process artifacts made by Team Foundation Server and V...

What you do with an item when a customer returns it will depend on your returns policy and the condition of the item you get back from the customers. View Original Post

SystemSequences  is the table maintaining the every table next RecId sequence value. View Original Post

With the release of Cu 8 for AX 2012 R3 the process for doing a slip-stream installation of AX has changed slightly.  In the past we released one CU package file that could be used for both slip-streaming and updating.  With R3 Cu 8 we now have two different package files, one for doing an upgrade (R3 RTM to the next CU) and an R3 RTM Slip-Stream package file.  This often leads to confusion about whether or not you download the right package file and slip-streamed it properly.  To help clear up some of this and hopefully make your upgrades to AX 2012 R3 a lot smoother I thought I'd take a quick minute and cover this topic.  The steps below are written for R3 Cu 8, however you can use this example same process to slip-stream any individual hotfix into R3 with your new deployments as well.   Because Ax 2012 R3 makes great use of  LCS (Life Cycle Services), you will need an account on here to download CU 8 as it only available via  LCS...

If you are using the Dynamics AX demo image ( https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dn741578.aspx ) you may have seen this error when adding an item to a transaction in EPOS, especially when logging into Windows as the Contoso\administrator user: View Original Post

The Microsoft Dynamics Lifecycle Services team is happy to announce the immediate availability of the April release of Lifecycle Services. View Original Post

This is a quick walk through of processing a return order as a basic flow. The process will vary in many different ways based on how you want to handle the inventory and customer balance. Some of this processing is controlled by the disposition codes actions. You can find the details behind the actions here https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/gg213368.aspx View Original Article

This post will cover how to auto-populate the country code when adding new addresses in Dynamics AX 2012.  View Original Post

I faced one Error while creating Purchase Order from Approved Purchase Requisition Error Message: System trade line number increment is not specified. Purchase order creation has been cancelled due to errors View Original Post

To open Dynamics AX project's WBS structure in MS Project,  Microsoft Dynamics Add-in for Microsoft Project  must be installed. View Full Original Post

From my point of view, the most important thing to think about and carefully design is the Chart of accounts. This is a series of posts about how to plan your COA. Planning your chart of accounts in AX 2012 (Part 1 of 7) Planning your chart of accounts in AX 2012 (Part 2 of 7) Planning your chart of accounts in AX 2012 (Part 3 of 7) Planning your chart of accounts in AX 2012 (Part 4 of 7) Planning your chart of accounts in AX 2012 (Part 5 of 7) Planning your chart of accounts in AX 2012 (Part 6 of 7) Planning your chart of accounts in AX 2012 (Part 7 of 7)

Power BI is one of the analytical tools that I enjoy playing with it. The most powerful part of using Power BI on top of the Dynamics AX data is how quickly you can produce and publish high impact visualizations that can then be accessed through Excel, the web, on a tablet or through the Power BI Windows 8 app Below is a series of posts about Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 and Microsoft Power BI Power BI and Dynamics AX: Part 1: Introduction Power BI and Dynamics AX: Part 2: Extract and Transform Power BI and Dynamics AX: Part 3: Create and Publish Visualizations Power BI and Dynamics AX: Part 4: Data Refresh and Q&A Power BI and Dynamics AX: Part 5: PowerBI.com and On Premise Data (Preview)

Sometimes the menus within Dynamics AX can be a little overwhelming because there are so many different menu items, and really you just use a handful of the menu items on a daily basis. Also, sometimes to perform a business flow you need to go to a couple of different area pages in order to find all of the things that you need. View Original Post

This tool will help you to copy users roles, users options, user groups, user's main accounts and user association with worker by creating new worker if not exists. User association with worker is required to perform different business processes in AX, one of them is purchase requisition approval. View Original Post

AX 2012 R3 Transportation Management Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 R3 includes new Warehouse and Transportation management modules that are enabled by a single configuration key, along with the previously released Warehouse management II module. Users should enable the configuration key for ONLY ONE of these modules, but not both, in a single-instance, single-partition deployment. Although technically feasible, enabling the configuration keys for both of these modules in a single-instance, single-partition deployment is not supported by Microsoft. This is a demonstration video about the transportation management by Adaptable Solutions

What is this blog is about? This blog is about gathering news about Microsoft Dynamics AX from all over the internet and, put it for you in place, that is your one stop to know, read, and update yourself about Microsoft Dynamics AX. I will be doing all my best to gather all the updates, news, tips, "Valuable" information about AX to you here. Therefore, I will not write or compose posts, rather than pointing you to whatever new and worth your spending your time. This blog is mainly interested in the functional part more than the technical part. Sometime you may find a post that is referring to a not new article, this is because I find the information in it is useful and worth sharing with everyone.