White papers published by Microsoft and Sunrise Technologies are accessible below.
Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012
This white paper highlights the key innovations in Microsoft Dynamics AX 2010-a New Generation ERP.
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Microsoft Dynamics AX 2009
‘Day in the life' Benchmark on HP Proliant Servers – Results Summary
Published by Microsoft, this document provides a Summary Overview from benchmark testing of Microsoft Dynamics AX on HP ProLiant Servers.
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Microsoft Dynamics AX for the Apparel Industry
This document summarizes the apparel industry practices on financials, sales distribution, production, planning and purchasing areas and explains how Microsoft Dynamics AX enables these key business processes.
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Microsoft Dynamics AX for the Footwear Industry
This document summarizes the footwear industry practices on financials, sales, distribution, production, planning and purchasing areas and explains how Microsoft Dynamics AX enables these key business processes.
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Microsoft Dynamics AX for the Textile Industry
This document summarizes the textile industry practices on financials, sales, distribution, production, planning and purchasing areas and explains how Microsoft Dynamics AX enables these key business processes.
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Microsoft Dynamics AX for the Hosting and Managed Service Provider Industry
As the demand for managed hosting services continues to increase, the industry's requirements of the systems used to operate their businesses have become increasingly more complex. Managing and maintaining multiple systems while providing the level of integration and reporting functionality required by intercompany departments and customers burdens the IT staff with job functions that are not core to their organization's service offerings.
The purpose of this white paper is to examine the benefits of consolidating the disparate systems currently running a hosting business into one enterprise application that manages all core business functions, Microsoft Dynamics AX.
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Microsoft Dynamics and Sarbanes-Oxley Compliance
How Microsoft is supporting Sarbanes-Oxley Compliance
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Demand Planning
Optimizing Operations Across the Supply Chain
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Consumer Driven Planning for Microsoft Dynamics AX
This paper identifies the challenges producers and retailers confront in managing demand-driven sales processes. It describes Consumer Driven Planning for Microsoft Dynamics AX, a unique solution that enables companies to optimize the relationship between supply and demand across the value chain while achieving high levels of customer service. Finally, it details how Consumer Driven Planning for Microsoft Dynamics AX provides a reliable platform for businesses that want the greatest return on investment for their technology solutions.
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Turning Toward Success for Automotive Suppliers-Published by the MPI Group
This is one of the 'darkest and brightest' moments in history for the automotive industry. The financial futures of some of the mightiest automotive OEMs in the United States, Asia, and Europe are in serious doubt, casting a pall over the entire sector. Yet, amid the talk of bankruptcy and bailouts, is the emergence of global auto markets as formerly third-world countries exchange animal-drawn carts for automobiles. The juxtaposition of long-term fortune and failure among auto makers and their suppliers is stark, and the stakes are clear:
Those firms that can survive today are likely to thrive in an even more profi table industry tomorrow.
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Connecting customer demand to the plant floor-Published by the MPI Group
How discrete manufacturers can leverage market information for improved performance and new product development
Discrete manufacturers produce and sell goods they can count — a reality that encourages many to forecast demand by looking in the rearview mirror at past performance. It’s understandable: using previously filled orders for discrete resource and production planning is far easier than using anticipated consumption quantities, which vary in real time — and require far more flexibility to manage. Relying on the past may have worked in the old, batch-and-queue days of discrete operations. However, manufacturers navigating a competitive global marketplace can’t manage today by looking at yesterday’s results.
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