Microsoft Axapta 3.0 Sales and Marketing

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About this class

The modules in this course are described below.

This training may be available onsite; please contact us if you are interested.

Who will the lesson benefit?

Students should already have a good working knowledge of Axapta.

Examination details

This course will prepare you for the following exams and certification tracks shown. Please note that the exam may not be included in the price shown: please contact us to check.

Microsoft® Certification Tracks  »
    Microsoft® Exams  »
       Exam MB6-285: MD: Axapta 3.0 Sales & Marketing
       Elective (MCBMSP : Applications for Microsoft® Dynamics AX)
       Elective (MCBMSP : Applications for Microsoft® Dynamics AX)
       Elective (MCBMSP - Applications for Microsoft® Dynamics AX)  »
          Exam MB6-285: MD: Axapta 3.0 Sales & Marketing

What prerequisites are required

Before attending this course, students must have:

• A working knowledge of the navigation and use of Microsoft Axapta
• A working knowledge of the use of sales orders in Microsoft Axapta
• In addition, it is recommended, but not required, that students have completed:
• Microsoft Business Solutions Axapta Introduction 3.0

Contents of this class

Chapter 1: Introduction

This chapter introduces students to the Microsoft Axapta Sales and Marketing course and the topics that are covered in the following chapters.

Lessons

• Course Description
• General Sales and Marketing module information
• Chapter Content

After completing this module, students should be able to:

• Know the purpose of this course
• Know who the target group is for this course
• Know the content of the chapters the manual

Chapter 2: What is Customer Relationship Management?

This chapter explains the basic principles of Customer Relationship Management (CRM) and the possibilities that the use of IT-technology brings to Customer Relationship Management. The chapter describes the key elements in the Microsoft Axapta Sales and Marketing module which refer to basic customer relationship management theory in order to create an understanding of the ideas behind the module.

Lessons

• Defining Customer Relationship Management
• The Customer
• Sales and Marketing and CRM

After completing this module, students should be able to:

• Understand the basic theory behind Customer Relationship Management
• Understand the CRM-based elements in the Sales and Marketing module
• Gain an overview of the various parts of the Sales and Marketing module

Chapter 3: Required CRM Setup

This chapter explains to you the procedures used to perform the required setup of the Microsoft Axapta CRM module. These procedures are used by all professionals that are involved with implementing and maintaining an installation of Microsoft Axapta CRM.

Lessons

• Number Sequences
• Relation Types
• Default Values for Business Relations
• Connecting Employees with User IDs
• Sales Management
• Transaction Log

Lab 3.1: Implementing the CRM Module

• Licensing and Configuration Keys
• Number Sequences
• Business Relations
• Default Parameters

After completing this module, students should be able to:

• Maintain and set up the required number sequences in CRM.
• Create the relation types in the CRM module.
• Create and maintain CRM employees and connect these employees with their respective User IDs in Microsoft Axapta.
• Create and maintain the values which are to be the defaults when creating the various business relations.
• Set up and maintain transaction logging for CRM transactions.

Chapter 4: The Sales Organization

This chapter explains to you the procedures used to perform the required setup of the Microsoft Axapta CRM module. These procedures are used by all professionals that are involved with implementing and maintaining an installation of Microsoft Axapta CRM.

Lessons

• The Business Relation
• Segmentation and Categorization
• Pipeline Management
• Working with Business Relations
• Importing Business Relations
• Reports for the Sales Organization

Lab 4.1: Creating New Business Relations

• Creating Segments and Sub-segments
• Creating Business Relations
• Using Notes

Lab 4.2: Importing Business Relations

• Create an Import File
• Create File Format Definition File
• Import and Adjust Data

After completing this module, students should be able to:

• Set up the categorizations necessary to use the Business relations functionality correctly
• Define the required setups
• Create and maintain business relations
• Import Business relations from an external import file
• Understand which reports are available for contact management purposes

Chapter 5: The Salesperson

This chapter explains a key component of the Microsoft Axapta Sales and Marketing module - the salesperson. The salesperson, also referred to as the Sales and Marketing employee, administers and maintains the day-to-day contacts with the business relations that the salesperson is responsible for.

Lessons

• Defining Salesperson Responsibilities
• The Contact Person
• Activities
• The Workbook
• Quotations
• Quotation Reports

Lab 5.1: Contact Person Setup

• Setup Contact Person characteristics

Lab 5.2: Create Contact Persons

• Create Contact Persons
• Select Contact Person Characteristics

Lab 5.3: Creating an Activity

• Create a New Activity
• Enter Activity Details

Lab 5.4: Create a Quotation and Convert to a Sales Order

• Prepare Quotation
• Use Price Simulations
• Partially Convert Quotation to Sales Order
• Process Remainder of Sales Order

After completing this module, students should be able to:

• Set up and maintain the contact person(s) connected with a business relation
• Set up and maintain (plan) activities for business relations
• Use the workbook to monitor and update any planned activities
• Create and send quotations to business relations

Chapter 6: The Marketing Organization

This chapter explains how the Campaign module in Microsoft Axapta gives you the ability to segment the audience by meaningful profiles that help you to refine a marketing message, execute a campaign, track responses and automatically send the right literature to all targets. You also see how the expenses related to the campaign are displayed on the Campaign form, allowing marketing personnel to gain an expense overview as well as a sales overview. You can gain an overview of all activities, expenses, and business relations in one collected framework.

Lessons

• Campaign Example
• Marketing Automation Setup Tables
• Working with Campaigns
• The CRM Encyclopedia
• Distribution of Campaign Responsibilities
• Reports in the Campaign Module

Lab 6.1: Create a Campaign

• Create a Campaign
• Select Campaign Targets

After completing this module, students should be able to:

• Set up the Market Automation tables for use
• Create the desired default values when creating campaigns
• Create and structure a campaign
• Associate a campaign to a project
• Define campaign targets
• Broadcast a campaign and collect the responses to that campaign
• Build a library in the encyclopedia

Chapter 7: Telemarketing

This chapter explains how Microsoft Axapta facilitates creating, registering, and administering the telephonic contact between a company and its business relations. The contact can be for direct marketing purposes or be associated with a questionnaire or other activities directed towards that particular contact person.

Lessons

• Telemarketing Setup Tables
• Creating and Working with Call Lists
• Creating a Mailing Call List
• Working with Telemarketing
• Reports in Telemarketing

Lab 7.1: Create a Call List

• Create a New Call List
• Select Targets for the Call List

Lab 7.2: Enter Responses and Re-assign Responsibilities

• Enter Results of Calls
• Re-assign Remaining Calls

After completing this module, students should be able to:

• Set up the Microsoft Axapta Telemarketing module for use
• Set the relevant parameters for telemarketing
• Create a call list
• Administer and distribute a call list
• Execute a telemarketing initiative
• Utilize the telemarketing reports to gain an overview of the entire telemarketing initiative

Chapter 8: Sales Management

This chapter shows how Sales Management statistics provide help to executives and salespersons to monitor the sales process. Sales Management statistics present sales statistics as a graphic overview of actual sales, sales activities and forecast sales opportunities in the pipeline.

Microsoft Axapta 3.0 Sales and Marketing / MS8456 (M8456, MOC 8456)

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