1. LCS - The Tool to Ease Ramping up your employees in a repetitive way
Jens Seiger Kristiansen, Western Computer

2. Agenda Introduction Ramping up your employees Q&A
Who am I and where am I from?
What are we going to talk about today?
Introduction to LCS in general
Ramping up your employees
Classic pain points
How can LCS help you out?
Business process modeler
Q&A
Let’s talk and discuss!

3. Introduction

4. Jens Seiger Kristiansen
About Me 
Jens Seiger Kristiansen
Born and Raised in Denmark – moved to USA in 2013
AX Program Manager, Western Computer
10 years of AX experience
Specializes in:
Lifecycle Services (LCS)
PLM and Configurations
Trade and logistics
‘Nerdy’ about the new stuff

5. About Western Computer
Western Computer strives to be the premier Microsoft Dynamics ERP solutions
provider to Manufacturing, Distribution and Construction companies in North America.
Profile
Established 1987
29 years in business software
160+ certified professionals
500+ successful implementations
Solution Expertise
Microsoft Dynamics NAV
Microsoft Dynamics AX
Microsoft Dynamics CRM
Microsoft SharePoint
Application Integration
Web Development
Business Intelligence
Reputation
Industry Focused – Distribution, Projects and Mfg.
Long Term Client Partnerships
World Class Support
Global Roll-out Experience

6. Lifecycle Services Introduction to LCS
“Lifecycle Services (LCS) provides regularly updated services. The goal of LCS is to deliver the right information, at the right time, to the right people, and to help ensure repeatable, predictable success with each roll-out of an implementation, update, or upgrade.”
Source: Microsoft

7. Lifecycle Services Introduction to LCS
Online collaborative workspace to be accessed for customers and partners
Implementation tools
Regular updated serves
Diagnostics and monitoring tools

8. Document processes and RAMPING UP YOUR EMPLOYEES

9. Are your processes documented?

10. Questions:
“Do you currently feel that your company is up to speed with documenting your processes?”
“What kind of issues/pain points do you have in your company, where documentation of the processes could solve it?”

11. LCS – Business Process Modeler

12. Business Process modeler
Business process modeler can be used to create, view, and modify business-process libraries and flowcharts for Microsoft Dynamics AX
Export the processes to Visio as well as Visual Studio Online or Team Foundation Server to track the development and deployment
Update processes in Excel
For AX Use Task Recorder to quickly and easily create training and on-boarding materials to help speed user adoption
For the new Microsoft Dynamics AX – Use task guides and task recorder to implement guidelines and process flows

13. Business Process modeler

14. Business Process modeler

15. Task Recorder Record any steps performed in AX
Store as a recording, document or task guide
Update BPM
The Jobs page lists the status of the collections jobs, and the servers that they ran on.

16. Task Guides (AX7)
The Collectors page enables you to view the diagnostic data most recently collected from your Microsoft Dynamics AX environment. You can browse or search to find a specific collector.

17. DEMO

18. QA

19. Final reminders
CPE Credit Code: 53C2 Complete Surveys

20. Speaker contact info
Jens Seiger Kristiansen Western Computer