Manufacturing Systems

Microsoft Business Solutions for Manufacturing includes:

• Sales Forecasting – Communication challenges are frequent when you bring together groups that have different objectives and backgrounds, such as those found between sales teams and manufacturing managers.  Sales Forecasting brings these teams closer together by bridging communication gaps and creating a powerful loop that promotes effective, efficient product delivery.

• Material Requirements Planning – Support your business objectives by effectively managing materials.  Deep visibility into material requirements translates into more effective resource planning- helping reduce stock outages, drive down inventory costs, and streamline the production process.

• Sales Configurator – Help customers - and your employees that serve them - navigate the complexities of selling customized products faster and more effectively.  With uniform, accurate, and easy-to-understand product information at the point of sale, you can select the most suitable product configuration – condensing the sales cycle, driving revenue and profitability, and improving responsiveness to customer and market dynamics.

• Bill of Materials – Equipped with complete, consistent, and current product information, you can maximize production efficiency and cut inventory costs across the extended enterprise.  By tightly integrating different types of bills and customized definitions into manufacturing operations, Bill of Materials helps improve performance, support time-to-market and time-to-volume objectives, and ensure that materials are where they should be, when they are needed.

• Manufacturing Order Processing – Track productions costs in detail and manage work orders, the shop floor, and even outsourced processes.  By directing the entire cycle of order processing, you can build a business that is both customer-driven and profitable.  In addition to work orders, Manufacturing Order Processing enables you to manage routings, work center definition, work in progress, and production costing.

• Engineering Change Management – By providing an easy means to collect, organize, and review changed before authorization, Engineering Change Management helps you ensure that engineering change requests are strategically sound before they become orders, and that engineering changes yield production efficiencies, rein in costs, and maintain high levels of customer satisfaction.

• Quality Assurance – Maintain tight control of the quality testing process to help ensure that products consistently meet or exceed demanding customer requirements.  By allowing you to design testing procedures of incoming materials to meet you manufacturing process, Quality Assurance equips you to start with the quality of raw materials that you require, and dramatically reduces manufacturing delays, rework, and scrap.

• Job Costing – To help ensure that business is profitable, you need accurate, current, and easy-to- access data about costing details.  Job costing captures all costs when they occur, and consolidates them into one location that is easy to access and manage – delivering a comprehensive view of production profitability.

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