Data Masons’ EDI experts are facilitating an in-depth conversation on EDI integration with Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 during today’s manufacturing-focused sessions at the AX 2012 Sales and Pre-sales Industry Summit. Dennis Bruce of Data Masons will discuss the huge opportunity partners have to leverage the power of Microsoft Dynamics AX and support customers’ lean manufacturing goals with an Microsoft Dynamics AX EDI solution that tightly integrates common business documents without ERP platform customization.

Data Masons will also join First Tech Direct today in discussing…

With Microsoft continuing to develop industry specific solutions, such as those for the automotive manufacturing industry, more frequently Dynamics-based organizations are relying on vertically-specialized Dynamics ISVs to complement their ERP investments. For automotive suppliers, they need to implement more flexible, powerful and responsive production systems to stay ahead of the competition. Understanding this requirement, Microsoft Dynamics’ automotive manufacturing software solutions deliver the key capabilities to automotive manufacturers, but an ISV with automotive supply chain expertise can deliver the extra nudge needed to surpass the competition…

The automotive industry has specific needs that no general purpose EDI solution can manage. That’s why it’s important to find an EDI solution that provides all of the critical features and services needed for companies in the automotive value chain to integrate with Microsoft Dynamics.

View this 3-minute video to learn how an EDI solution should integrate with your Microsoft Dynamics ERP to meet your EDI compliance requirements, increase efficiency and lower ownership costs.

Vantage Point EDI’s unique automotive solution is powerful, cost-effective and easy to implement. It seamlessly integrates many of the key documents your partners mandate, such as production forecasts, schedules and releases, purchase orders, ASNs, invoices, and provides functionality that supplements many accounting systems, such as ASN automation and production forecast release management…

Audubon Metals, a heavy-media separator and secondary specification aluminum alloy producer based in Kentucky, was running Microsoft Dynamics GP v8 with a planned upgrade to GP 2010. This GP 8 customer relied on their Kentucky-based partner to find an easy-to-implement replacement EDI solution provider with automotive expertise to meet their EDI for Dynamics GP requirements. After facing a 6 month delay due to an EDI implementation failure with another Dynamics GP solution, the customer was at a critical state with their OEM automotive customers, including Nissan… Read Complete Microsoft Dynamics GP Customer Success

Dynamics ERP experience, check. EDI experience, check. Automotive EDI requirements, no check.

The automotive supply chain is not something in which I have much first-hand experience, and so I was all ears when I recently spent the day with Donna Ward, former co-chair of the Automotive Industry Action Group’s Supply Chain Management Project Team. Given Donna’s extensive experience within the automotive industry, she could clearly outline just how critical EDI is to the supply chain, as well the most common EDI challenges companies using Microsoft Dynamics face.

To understand the magnitude of daily transactions related to what we were discussing, Donna informed me that the average automotive assembly plant makes about 1 vehicle per minute and as many as 2000 per day. With each vehicle having 5000 – 7000 components, we’re talking that a typical automotive assembly plant is handling up to 14 million parts each day.

That’s a lot of parts to say the least, and if you’re a supplier to this 14 million part-a-day industry, then you’re not only familiar with the rigorous EDI requirements that accompany each transaction, but also the most common challenges: 1) Release Management, 2) Forecast and Sales Order Replacement Logic…