ERP: Microsoft Dynamics AX for Apparel, Footwear and Accessories

Apparel and Textile for Microsoft Dynamics AX is designed to address complex coding, traceability, and changing process needs of apparel and textile manufacturers—from fibers to yarns, consumer and industrial fabrics, home goods, clothing, designer lines, and fashion accessories. With the ability to satisfy demanding customers and sustain agile businesses, you are better equipped to stay ahead of global competition, manage complex supply networks, and handle ongoing mergers and acquisitions.

Traceability
Gain comprehensive traceability and handle numerous material and product variables effectively with multi-dimensional item coding.

Track materials through variable sourcing and manufacturing processes, subcontractors, inventory, and logistics, including intercompany processing.

Manage complex item variables with advanced coding attributes and "smart" stock-keeping unit (SKU) coding for raw materials, process outputs, and item characteristics.

Automatically update item codes based on manufacturing process completion with transaction-driven code changes and extensions.

Financial management
Control costs by monitoring and analyzing material, item, order, and cost information using comprehensive financial management tools.

Analyze performance and profitability across your business.

Generate multi-faceted price lists that include promotional, trade show, or showroom pricing.

Process management
Increase agility with adaptable processes for sourcing, manufacturing, and shipment allocation.

Meet changing customer and supplier requirements with blanket orders, neutral BOMs, multiline manufacturing orders, inventory double units of measure, and variable routing and allocation simulations.

Enable production and materials planning, independent of variables such as size, color, or color-way.

Run simulations and model new processes to adapt quickly to changes.

Production
Increase efficiency.

Support either push or pull production policies, and integrate subcontractor routings and management into planning and logistics.

Customer orders
Streamline order entry.

Create multiple order types, such as collection and showroom orders, and opening blanket orders with truncated codes for later specification.

Accommodate multiple shipment addresses and delivery dates per order.

Save time making mass modifications in existing or blanket orders.

Define and meet customer requirements for put-up options, labeling, unitizing, and documentation.

Speed billing and reconciliation with item and shipment information that is fully integrated into invoicing and accounting processes.

Quality assurance
Integrate quality grading processes and information into the production and supply chain.

Allocate products of various grades to different distribution channels.

Gain insight into grade costs and profitability.

Inventory management
Maintain multiple material status indicators.

Improve inventory management with comprehensive tracking of materials and finished goods.

Supply chain management
Increase supply chain visibility.

Monitor subcontractor performance, and collaborate effectively.

Incorporate supply partners into costing and routing decisions.

Share demand and inventory information in real time.

Use multicurrency, multilingual, and multisite support to speed transactions, improve transparency, and provide consolidated financial reporting to people worldwide.

Offer trade partners security-enhanced, self-service access to key business processes through familiar Web browsers.

Price lists
Access integrated cost information.

Easily generate price lists for finished goods of various quality grades, sizing, and quantities.

Create and maintain special promotional, trade show, or showroom pricing.