subject: Introduction To Dynamics Ax [print this page] Microsoft Dynamics AX or formerly Axapta accounting software is a complete package for managing a company or corporation accounting information. It includes General Ledger, Accounts Receivable, Accounts Payable, Inventory Management, Production, Cost Accounting, Bank, CRM, Master Planning, Product Builder, Human Resources, Project, Service and other accounting modules.
A company can select which modules that will fit to work with their business. Once installed with a valid license file with the license codes to include selected modules, the modules will integrate with each other to form a single software system to manage their business. There is a demo license that the users can install to preview the features and abilities of Dynamics AX to see which modules or functions will fit their company the best.
Dynamics AX is famous for the abilities to handle multi language, with its user and label setup. It works with many country languages, for Europe, Asia, Middle East, and other continents. AX forms and reports are ready to be customized to add more data and labels for various languages. The company will need the appropriate license to do this.
Dynamics AX use AOS or Application Object Server to manage data, logic and to share application objects and information as an effective tool to increase application performance. It makes Dynamics AX very scalable to handle from medium to large size companies. The more AOSs the company installed, the more users and data that Dynamics AX can handle and manage.
One of the important modules in Dynamics AX is the Production module, which works with Master Planning and Product Builder and other modules to efficiently handle a company that manufactures products or items for their customers. It has production orders, planned productions orders, routes, warehouses, bills of material, scheduling, operation, production jobs, journal entries and reports for the users to handle the production of their products.
Other modules such as Accounts Receivable, Accounts Payable, General Ledger, Bank, CRM, Human Resources, Project, and Service can be chosen to handle various types of businesses from distribution to consulting companies.
There are many resellers companies that the companies that are interested in installing and using Dynamics AX can purchase and install the accounting software. Microsoft also has the information on the Dynamics software product website for the companies to find more information about looking for the supports for installation and setup of the software. There are many websites and blogs available for searching on a search website for valuable information about the accounting program.