Implementation of MS Dynamics AX 2009 for Weigh Bridge Management System (WBMS)
Client: Gunung Steel Company
Location: Indonesia
Solution Environment
- Microsoft Dynamics AX 2009
Profile:
Client is one of the largest privately owned steel companies who supplies steel products across Indonesia. The company also offers structural steel products, hot rolled steel sections, flat steel products, and H-beams.
Client want to establish workflow based approval process for control / maintaining policies within the organization and to develop various web services in order to automate order creation and perform data synchronization on a specific interval.
Features
- User friendliness and scalability
- Customize MS Dynamics AX 2009 based on functional Gaps analysis
- Calibration and blocking of weighing machines
- Interface with weighing machines
- Automatic mailing facilities for faulty weighing machines
Integration
Developed new WBMS application using .NET MVC and integrating with Microsoft Dynamics AX 2009
Background
Sharpsys was given the opportunity to develop new WBMS application using .NET MVC and integrating with Microsoft Dynamics AX 2009
Extreme challenge was getting analog input from weigh bridge device and convert into digital value to feed it into WBMS application
Automation of order creation in Dynamics AX 2009 based on the input received from WBMS application periodically.
The other salient implementation/development activities were:
- Data synchronization during internet downtime in client premises
- Security handling between two systems for the users.
- Identifying the faulty weighing machines and triggering the information through mail to respective groups
- Training conducted on WBMS and MS Dynamics 2009 for 250 users.
Benefits
- Integrated data for better control
- Provide Business Intelligence to the sales representatives for better sales
- Increase user efficiency by avoiding duplication of order creation in multiple application for their business scenario
- Avoid human errors during scale in and scale out process by integrating WBMS with Microsoft Dynamics AX 2009