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Microsoft Dynamics AX Implementation Guide

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Microsoft Dynamics AX Implementation Guide

Overview of this book

Microsoft Dynamics AX is Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) software that supports multi-site operations across various countries, providing international processing within the company. It is an ERP solution with a lot of features and functionality, and it provides support across the fields of financial, distribution, supply chain, project, customer relationship, HR, and field service management. This book is all about simplifying the overall implementation process of Dynamics AX. The purpose of this book is to help IT managers and solution architects implement Dynamics AX to increase the success rate of Dynamics AX projects. This all-in-one guide will take you through an entire journey of a Dynamics AX implementation, ensuring you avoid commonly-made mistakes during implementation. You’ll begin with the installation of Dynamics AX and the basic requirements. Then, you’ll move onto data migration, reporting, functional and technical design, configuration, and performance tuning. By the end of the book, you will know how to plan and execute Dynamics AX right, on your first attempt, using insider industry knowledge and best practices.
Table of Contents (23 chapters)
Microsoft Dynamics AX Implementation Guide
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgments
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
11
Testing and Training
Index

The solution design document


A Solution Design Document (SDD) includes information about the working elements of the overall solution, including Dynamics AX standard features (Fits), Gaps, and integrations. It is important to get the entire solution depicted in a pictorial representation. The business process modeler in LCS is a great tool with which to put together the solution design document.

Overview and objectives

Solution design documents are primarily referred to by core team members of the implementation team. The following are the key objectives of solution design documentation:

  • The details of the business flow in the future solution based on Microsoft Dynamics AX

  • Solution validation

  • The single point of reference for future value additions, issues, and troubleshooting

  • Documenting the high level

  • Business and solution flow diagrams

Guidelines for Solution Design Documents

Solution design is a solution binder and puts together all the aspects of the solution. The following are the suggested...