Purchase Order Lead Times in the Field

October 5, 2017
Purchase order lead times in field operations

What could be worse than one of your field service workers arriving on a customer’s site without the parts they need to complete the task?  Especially if it’s a regularly scheduled, routine task.  With all of this talk about ‘just in time’ inventory as a way to improve cash flow, most don’t realize that without…

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An Introduction to Demand Forecasting in Microsoft Dynamics AX (Part 3)

August 10, 2016
demand forecast dynamics ax 2012

In this last part of the Demand Forecasting blog series (Part 1 and Part 2), we are going to see how the forecasting activities play into the overall Master Planning process in Dynamics AX. We won’t go into the nitty gritty details of Master Planning here, because Master Planning itself would be a big topic for another…

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An Introduction to Demand Forecasting in Microsoft Dynamics AX (Part 2)

August 3, 2016

In this second part of the demand forecasting blog series (click here to see part 1), we are going to generate the statistical baseline forecast out of AX and see how the rest of the forecasting process actually works. Once we are done with configuration of the parameters, a statistical baseline forecast can be generated out of…

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An Introduction to Demand Forecasting in Microsoft Dynamics AX (Part 1)

July 27, 2016

Demand forecasting can be immensely valuable to a business organization. It supports the overall Sales and operations planning process for a business and can directly impact and help the downstream business operations. At the very fundamental level, demand forecasting can tell a business what they need, when they need it and what they anticipate/predict delivering…

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