I just saw the R3 demo VM. There is Lot of new features. The major feature Include
- Forecasting.
- Budgeting
- Transportation management
- A wireless client for warehouse.
- Retail Module has number of changes.
Let’s see small detail which I just collected.
- Demand Planning – New Sales Forecasting Tool
In Dynamics AX 2012 R3 a new Sales forecasting Tool giving which provide the more accurate for forecast. - Budget Planning – New tool for Budget Preparation
A budget planning include in Dynamics Ax R3 which will more standard to support the budgeting process.
- Now Budget allocation based on allocation basis rules
- Improved process flexibility and control by default and locked dimension values on certain type of budget plans
- Evaluation of different scenarios for what-if analysis
- Improved Warehouse Management functionality
The warehouse management functionality enhanced to support for scanners, wave picking, license plates and process are more improve the warehouse.
- Improved Inventory Control
- Embedded Radio Frequency
- Improved Inbound & Outbound Warehouse Operations
- Transportation Management – New module for Shipment Planning and Control
In transportation management, a new module that supports planning and packing containers, vehicles routes freight rates booking and billing, this will very important to enhancement for supply chain.
- Rate, Route and Load Planning
- Freight Reconciliation
Retail
- A new and Windows 8 Tablet Point of Sales (POS) and Mobile POS.
- A loyalty programs across legal entities and tiering of customer as well as enhanced gift card support.
- There are enrichments in pricing and promotions, assortment and catalog, BI and reporting and mark downs enhancements helping optimize revenue.
For developer or technical point of
- a new compiler in Dynamics AX builds in the context of multiple developments integration.
- A strong TFS Version Control support, which has previous version has problems.
References:
Here are some reference and articles I found
A great article about compiler enhancement in Dynamics Ax 2012 R3 http://axwonders.blogspot.com/2014/03/hi-there-i-hope-everybody-is-doing.html
A detail article about Project management functionality enhancement in Dynamics Ax 2012 R3
http://sandeepchaudhury.wordpress.com/2014/01/26/enhancements-to-project-planning-functionality-in-ax-2012-r2-cu7/
There is registration going on for Webinar for Dynamics Ax 2012 R3 visit following link
https://presentations.inxpo.com/Shows/microsoft/4-10-14/Registration/Registration.html?AffiliateKey=21572&AffiliateData=
References : http://www.mwdata.dk/news/new-exciting-features-for-dynamics-ax-2012-coming-up/
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/dax/archive/2013/11/05/microsoft-dynamics-ax-2012-r3-a-preview.aspx
http://blog.encorebusiness.com/new-features-microsoft-dynamics-ax-2012-r3/
http://blog.encorebusiness.com/new-features-microsoft-dynamics-ax-2012-r3/