Dynamics AX 2012 Barebones Configuration Guide #13 – Configuring Production Control Is Available

Over the past month I have been finishing up another of my books within the Dynamics AX 2012 Barebones Configuration Guides and have just released out the #13 – Configuring Production Control Within Dynamics AX. For anyone interested in a general overview of how to configure Production Control within Dynamics AX with step by step instructions, then you may want to take a look at it.

Within the 484 pages of Production goodness I cover:

CONFIGURING PRODUCTION CONTROL

• Configuring Production Journals
  
• Configuring The Production Control Parameters
  
• Configuring Working Time Templates
  
• Configuring Calendars
  
• Configuring Production Units
  

CONFIGURING BILLS OF MATERIALS

• Marking a Product As BOM Based Product
  
• Creating a Bill Of Materials For A Product
  
• Approving Your BOM
  
• Activating Your Default BOM
  
• Viewing the BOM in the Designer Mode
  
• Blocking Users From Editing BOMs Once Activated
  
• Printing the BOM Within the Designer Mode
  
• Setting Product Production Site Defaults
  
• Performing a Manual Cost Roll Up
  
• Viewing Cost Rollup Details
  
• Activating Item Price Costs
  
• Creating a Production Order
  
• Releasing Jobs To Production For Estimation
  
• Starting Production Jobs
  
• Reporting Jobs As Finished
  
• Ending Jobs
  
• Tracing Job Transactions
  

CONFIGURING ROUTES

• Configuring Resources
  
• Configuring Resource Groups
  
• Configuring Operations
  
• Configure Route Groups
  
• Configure Shared Categories
  
• Configure Cost Categories
  
• Configuring Routes
  
• Testing Route Feasibility
  
• Approving Your Route
  
• Activating Your Route
  
• Linking BOM Lines To Route Operations
  
• Performing Cost Roll Ups With Route Details
  
• Creating Route Based Production Orders
  
• Scheduling Job Operations
  
• Starting Scheduled Production Jobs
  
• Using The Job List To Update Production Jobs
  
• Viewing All Job Operations
  

CONFIGURING JOB REGISTRATION

• Configuring Indirect Activity Categories
  
• Activating Employees for Job Registration
  
• Accessing Job Registration Terminals
  
• Using The Registration Terminals To Track Attendance
  
• Converting Registration Terminals To Touchscreen
  
• Accessing Job Details Through The Registration Terminals
  
• Starting Production Jobs Via The Registration Terminals
  
• Reporting Job Output Via The Registration Terminals
  
• Switching Resource Within Job Registration
  
• Clocking Out Of Job Registration
  

CONFIGURING WORK INSTRUCTIONS

• Creating A Work Instruction Document Type
  
• Creating Work Instruction Document Groups
  
• Attaching Work Instructions To Your BOMs
  
• Viewing Work Instructions Through Job Registration
  

CONFIGURING COSTING SHEETS

• Configuring Cost Groups
  
• Associating Products To Cost Groups
  
• Associating Cost Categories With Cost Groups
  
• Configuring Costing Sheets
  
• Viewing The Cost Sheet Details
  

If you are interested in taking a look here are the link on Amazon:

Paperback:
http://www.amazon.com/dp/149920633X/

The Kindle Version will probably be available within a couple of weeks.

As a side note, my Dynamics AX 2012 Barebones Configuration Guides series aims to show how easy it is ton configure Dynamics AX 2012 from a blank instance, and is going to have the following books in the series, each of which builds on top of the previous books in the series:

1. Initial Data Load
   
2. Configuring the Organization
   
3. Configuring Human Resources
   
4. Configuring General Ledger
   
5. Configuring Cash Management
   
6. Configuring Accounts Receivable
   
7. Configuring Accounts Payable
   
8. Configuring Product Management
   
9. Configuring Inventory Management
   
10. Configuring Purchasing
    
11. Configuring Sales Order Management
    
12. Configuring Shipping
    
13. Configuring Production Control
    
14. Configuring Sales & Marketing
    
15. Configuring Service Management
    
16. Configuring Project Management
    
17. Configuring Budgeting
    

I am working feverishly to get all of the books out there for everyone to take advantage of.