Another week – another new announcement from Microsoft. It could have been easily missed by many in the midst of excitement at Convergence EMEA 2015 in Barcelona this week, but a new cumulative update has been released for AX 2012 R3.
It was formally released on November 25, 2015 and includes 144 binary hotfixes, 1040 application hotfixes, and 30 country specific hotfixes. As always, it is highly advisable to test any of the hotfixes before applying it into your AX environment.
AX 2012 R3 CU 10 covers most AX modules with higher emphasis on the areas of Budget and Forecast, Call Center, Warehouse and Transportation, Sales & invoicing (in no particular order). On the technical / administration side, this update includes resolutions for some of the more known DIXF and Workflows issues.
Important:
The build number the initial update package is 6.3.3000.110
The build number for the kernel and slipstream update package is 6.3.3000.111
Today we will focus on some of the improvements we find especially interesting from the initial glance:
Project based businesses
Print management issues have been corrected when posting multiple proposals
Currency validations / errors for the Item requirements and project reversals
Warehouse management processes enabled for sales, production and purchase orders associated with a project (!!!)
Unit of delivery corrections when posting project credit notes and deleting project invoice proposals
Finally allows to post a project timesheet attached to non-submitted budget revisions
Load planning workbench is accessible from Item requirements
Transportation planning for sales and purchase orders associated with projects
WBS uses trade agreement price for an item
Sales & Invoicing
Prices / Discounts update for sales categories
Prepayments are now printed on sales invoices
Automatic cancellation of supplementary items on sales orders
Product dimensions are now available for alternative items in sales quotations
ATP calculation is allowed for confirmed ship dates on the original sales order for intercompany orders
Transportation / Shipping (some of these hotfixes cross heavily into the warehouse management and other areas)
Consolidation of transfer orders based on TO and FROM warehouse into a single shipment
Ability to re-open closed containers
Load lines are updated when the delivery of a purchase order for different days
Consolidated shipments at auto release for transfer orders
Ability to “unmatch” approved freight invoices
A long list of performance improvements in the areas of close container operation, wave containerization, work creating logging, release to warehouse, etc
A lot more details are nicely packaged in this blog from MSDN: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/dynamicsaxscm/archive/2015/11/25/what-s-new-in-cu10-for-wms-and-tms.aspx
Human resources and Payroll
FMLA calculations re-visited and corrected
Allow worker registration for courses with available seats
Pay agreements line copy feature
Localizations
Users in Brazil and Russia will find the most updates addressing some of their unique challenges
This is by no means an exclusive list – just a few available highlights. As always, feel free to contact us if you have questions about hotfixes!
