With Dynamics 365 for Finance & Operations and PIM, you can streamline operations
The ERP system known as Dynamics AX is today called Dynamics 365 for Finance and operations. As with most ERP systems, an integration between PIM and Dynamics FO provides a number of benefits and opportunities:
- An integration with your PIM and ERP systems allows you to manage all your product data in one place - the PIM system. At the same time, transactional data is kept separate in the ERP system
- Brochures can be created dynamically just like data sheets and various marketing materials. And of course, it is always with the current data
- You also get the opportunity to export product information from the PIM system and Dynamics 365 FO to webshops, websites, marketplaces and online portals
- Just as Dynamics for FO provides value across the value chain, the integration between PIM and the old AXAPTA also provides value across the entire company's operations.
PIM and Dynamics Finance & Operations - create unique benefits
An integration between AXAPTA or Microsoft Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations, as they are now called, and the PIM system provides advantages advantages both ways. Here it is said that best practice is to keep the two systems as close to standard as possible. This means that PIM takes care of channel data and AX handles transactional data. The advantages of the integration include:
- A tight integration between PIM and Dynamics FO means that AXAPTA can be kept simple and streamlined. Only transactional data should reside there. All other data is in the PIM system (inriver, Perfion or Dynamicweb).
- The few adaptations of Dynamics AXAPTA also mean that operating costs are reduced.
- Upgrades can be made faster and more securely than before. Thus, fewer consequences of changing the system to a newer version.
- By creating publications directly in PIM, you can take advantage of the fact that the PIM system retrieves data directly from Dynamics FO at the exact moment it is needed.
- Catalogues, price lists, brochures, etc. can be set up easily and quickly - even with the guarantee that you have the latest prices, designations, etc