Dynamic Manufacturing Transforms Planning and Operations

Dynamic Manufacturing means improving your capabilities to compete in a global environment, responding rapidly to customer demand, and lowering your operational costs.

Microsoft Dynamics NAV

Gain greater control. Increase margins. Drive growth.

Microsoft Dynamics NAV (formerly Navision) is business management software that delivers comprehensive business management functionality, from financials to your supply chain to manufacturing and more. It connects the many moving parts of your organization, giving you better visibility into and control over what's going on in your business. And it supports highly specific industries with powerful solutions created by Microsoft partners.

Microsoft Dynamics NAV enables you to make smart decisions that have a direct impact on your bottom line—increasing margins and improving your cash flow. Simple to learn and use, Microsoft Dynamics NAV business management software works with your existing technology and scales as you grow to deliver long-term value.

A proven business management solution that's easy to adapt and connect

For nearly 30 years, Microsoft Dynamics NAV has delivered the capabilities, performance, and ease of use that power more than 84,000 diverse businesses in over 40 countries. It provides comprehensive core business management functionality, including sales, marketing, financials, reporting, supply chain management, and more. Easy to adapt, extend, and connect, Microsoft Dynamics NAV has enabled a global network of partners to create many powerful solutions that can meet the needs of small and midsize businesses across a wide range of highly specific industries and vertical businesses.

Microsoft Dynamics NAV delivers powerful comprehensive business management capabilities that provide the increased control, streamlined operations, and insight you need to improve profitability and, ultimately, support your business as it grows.

Comprehensive business management capabilities

Microsoft Dynamics NAV delivers powerful and comprehensive business management capabilities for:

• Financial management
• Manufacturing
• Business intelligence and reporting
• Supply chain management
• Sales and marketing
• Human resource management
• Project management
• Service management

Gain greater control

Microsoft Dynamics NAV increases visibility and improves insight at all levels of your business, making you confident that the right decisions are being made by the right people in your organization.

• Streamline your operations and financial management processes with an intuitive RoleTailored user interface and built-in workflows.
  
• Get a clear view of your business with integrated systems, shared data, and drill down capabilities that give you visibility into your transactions and provide detailed audit trails.
• Provide self-service reporting tools and real-time business intelligence that help your people make fast, informed decisions and reduce ad-hoc requests to your IT department.

Increase margins

Make smarter decisions to improve your operating margins--and your cash flow. Microsoft Dynamics NAV helps you maximize profitability by getting the most out of your people and systems.

•  Cut operational costs and reduce errors by automating key business processes.
  
• Easily analyze financial data to spot trends and take action to improve cash flow.
• Identify and target your top customers to find new sales opportunities and build loyalty.
• Focus on your most profitable products and customers.

Drive growth

Turn improved profitability into new opportunities with a solution that helps drive and support your business growth.

• Expand your business opportunities with flexible accounting processes and multi-currency support.
• Choose the deployment option that works best for your business and increases the flexibility of your IT systems--without increasing IT costs.
• Grow your business knowing that your systems will scale to match your ambition.

Microsoft Dynamics ERP - Professional Service Delivery

Business Challenges
With resources that work—and work together—your employees can collaborate effectively to produce quality deliverables quickly and profitably as a team.</DIV> Effective Professional Service Delivery provides a common workspace with access to current information, enables rich collaboration across time zones and geographies, reduces project risk by providing common methodologies and project tools, and accelerates delivery by connecting people, process and project information. Some challenges to Professional Service Delivery include:
Finding and connecting expertise – Difficulty in making real-time connections with experts inhibits value delivery and slows decision making. Professional turnover and an aging workforce can make finding the right resource even more difficult.

Too much information, not enough context – It’s hard to find relevant case information without reliable sources, duplication and content silos. Practitioners may make better use of information when the information is organized effectively.

Project Delivery Risk - Poor coordination and lacking common approach with a globally distributed workforce make it hard to collaborate on projects and share information.
Accessibility and Manageability – It can be hard to access information from remote and disconnected locations. Practitioners find it difficult to make use of information when not organized and accessible.

Solutions The Microsoft Professional Service Delivery solution enables professional service organizations to connect professionals, provide access to current information, reduce project risk and simplify setup and management of users and workflow with:

Office provides a collaborative workspace and project management within the authoring environment
Co-authoring
Office web applications
Task management

Office Communicator fosters team collaboration by providing real-time access and presence with project teams.

  

SharePoint Server provides a collaborative workspace and project management
Forms Services
Live Meeting
Presence
Project, Visio, Excel Services
Role based access
Task Management Portal
Team workspaces
Unified Communications (VoIP)
Workflow

Microsoft Business Productivity Online Suite provides a scalable approach to managing project infrastructure requirements.

Professional Service Delivery in the Cloud – The cloud provides flexibility for shifting work across physical locations and organizational boundaries improving accessibility of information and collaboration; examples may include outsourced knowledge process management (e.g., tax preparation), collaborative design (e.g., moving building information models from desktop to Cloud), inter-company collaboration (e.g., multi-company team portals). 

SharePoint delivered via BPOS offers an opportunity to displace traditional client and project-specific extranets with hosted secure sites for multi-party collaboration around activities (e.g., merger and acquisition discovery, due diligence activities). In the data services space, the Azure cloud will become an alternative delivery platform for intellectual property and transactional services presently delivered via expensive on-premise datacenters.

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Process Industries for Microsoft Dynamics AX

Stay ahead of the competition with deep insight into your supply chain and process manufacturing life cycle, manage the complexities of formulating and producing products to custom specifications, and improve responses to customer needs. With Process Industries for Microsoft Dynamics AX, you can optimize operations and help support compliance with legal, regulatory, and market requirements to profitably satisfy customers and gain a competitive advantage.

Operations management

Fuel efficiency and reduce risk across the organization with standardized processes and shared best practices. Reduce time spent on quoting and estimating processes with accurate costing and capacity information. Support modes such as make to order, make to stock, and mixed mode, or a hybrid environment. Analyze and monitor production costs and requirements. Track order status using real-time updates.

Connectivity and communication

Share portal-based, real-time information about specifications, order status, and quality control testing among key departments and trading partners. Integrate inventory, production, and critical quality control (QC) data into your buying, selling, and production decisions. Respond quickly to order status, certificate of analysis, and delivery queries.

Planning and scheduling

Gain insight into costs and process efficiency with up-to-the-minute client, contract, and project details. Adjust product mix to respond to changes in demand. Use what-if simulations to analyze capacity loadings, shop floor activities, and production costs. Capitalize on new opportunities, and respond effectively to changing conditions. Schedule multiple package types within a single production run. Consider recurring or rework products when scheduling. Deploy finite or infinite capacity and materials scheduling, backward or forward scheduling, day scheduling, or detailed scheduling by hours and minutes.

Inventory and order tracking

Control inventory with real-time insight into production schedules, capacity, shop floor activities, and production costs. Pull inventory in the optimal sequence. Track order status using real-time updates on net purchasing, production, and capacity requirements. Define multiple inventory dimensions.

Customer relationship management (CRM)

Enable customers to order in their preferred units of measure (UOM). Support custom configurations and packaging types. Provide product availability, delivery, pricing, and other critical information.

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Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012: Powerfully simple

Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 empowers people to anticipate and embrace change, enabling businesses to thrive.

PowerfulA powerful foundation that is purpose-built for five industries: manufacturing, distribution, retail, services, and public sector, along with comprehensive, core ERP functionality for financial, human resources and operations management. All packaged in a single global solution thus giving customers a rapid time to value.

“I think Microsoft has really, really thought about what
ERP should be and they’ve committed to making
that happen. ”

Rif Kiamil
CIO
JJ Food Services

AgileAgility through a set of unified natural models that serve as a library of business processes reflecting real-world situations. This enables customers to easily modify their organizations and processes to meet their changing business needs.

SimpleSimplicity through an easy-to-use solution offering access to information that is relevant to the work at hand. The familiar Microsoft Office user interface drives adoption and the enhanced business intelligence (BI) capabilities help customers uncover fresh insights that can lead to faster and more informed decision making.

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Microsoft Dynamics NAV - RFI Global Services

See how British firm RFI Global Services uses Microsoft Dynamics NAV to cover operations all over the globe and become more efficient.



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Microsoft Dynamics AX for discrete manufacturing

Success in the manufacturing industry requires that you produce the right products, in the right quantities, at the right time, with good quality, and at a price the customer is willing to pay. The flexibility to respond to compliance standards and the ever-changing needs of customers, such as providing real-time visibility into global operations, is also imperative for success. Meeting these demands requires the ability to make quick decisions based on accurate data. Microsoft and its partners deliver systems that can help you improve operations, open visibility into the supply chain, and increase your competitiveness.

Microsoft Dynamics AX can help streamline processes and minimize the costs of carrying inventory for firms that produce goods from raw materials.

Lean Manufacturing for Microsoft Dynamics AX

Lean Manufacturing for Microsoft Dynamics AX can help manufacturing organizations implement, energize, and sustain lean manufacturing initiatives by delivering the tools and information support needed to streamline processes, reduce waste, enable demand-pull operations, and promote continuous improvement. As part of Microsoft Dynamics AX, robust lean manufacturing functionality complements the solution’s comprehensive customer relationship, financial, collaboration, and supply chain management capabilities to help manufacturers increase efficiency and profitability and gain a competitive advantage.

This functionality is delivered as an integral part of a flexible and familiar end-to-end business management solution complete with the business insight and collaboration tools you need to sustain lean manufacturing and gain a competitive advantage.

Apparel and Textile for Microsoft Dynamics AX

Apparel and Textile for Microsoft Dynamics AX can help you address the complex coding, traceability, and changing process needs of apparel and textile manufacturers—from fibers to yarns, consumer and industrial fabrics, home goods, clothing, designer lines, and fashion accessories. If you can satisfy demanding customers and sustain agile businesses, you are better equipped to stay ahead of global competition, manage complex supply networks, and handle ongoing mergers and acquisitions.

Apparel and Textile for Microsoft Dynamics AX

Apparel and Textile for Microsoft Dynamics AX is designed to address complex coding, traceability, and changing process needs of apparel and textile manufacturers—from fibers to yarns, consumer and industrial fabrics, home goods, clothing, designer lines, and fashion accessories. With the ability to satisfy demanding customers and sustain agile businesses, you are better equipped to stay ahead of global competition, manage complex supply networks, and handle ongoing mergers and acquisitions.

Traceability

Gain comprehensive traceability and handle numerous material and product variables effectively with multi-dimensional item coding.

Track materials through variable sourcing and manufacturing processes, subcontractors, inventory, and logistics, including intercompany processing.

Manage complex item variables with advanced coding attributes and "smart" stock-keeping unit (SKU) coding for raw materials, process outputs, and item characteristics.

Automatically update item codes based on manufacturing process completion with transaction-driven code changes and extensions.

Link finished goods back to components and suppliers through item bills of material (BOMs).

Financial management

Control costs by monitoring and analyzing material, item, order, and cost information using comprehensive financial management tools.

Analyze performance and profitability across your business.

Generate multi-faceted price lists that include promotional, trade show, or showroom pricing.

Process management

Increase agility with adaptable processes for sourcing, manufacturing, and shipment allocation.

Meet changing customer and supplier requirements with blanket orders, neutral BOMs, multiline manufacturing orders, inventory double units of measure, and variable routing and allocation simulations.

Enable production and materials planning, independent of variables such as size, color, or color-way.

Run simulations and model new processes to adapt quickly to changes.

Production

Increase efficiency.

Support either push or pull production policies, and integrate subcontractor routings and management into planning and logistics.

Customer orders

Streamline order entry.

Create multiple order types, such as collection and showroom orders, and opening blanket orders with truncated codes for later specification.

Accommodate multiple shipment addresses and delivery dates per order.

Save time making mass modifications in existing or blanket orders.

Define and meet customer requirements for put-up options, labeling, unitizing, and documentation.

Speed billing and reconciliation with item and shipment information that is fully integrated into invoicing and accounting processes.

Quality assurance

Integrate quality grading processes and information into the production and supply chain.

Allocate products of various grades to different distribution channels.

Gain insight into grade costs and profitability.

Inventory management

Maintain multiple material status indicators.

Improve inventory management with comprehensive tracking of materials and finished goods.

Supply chain management

Increase supply chain visibility.

Monitor subcontractor performance, and collaborate effectively.

Incorporate supply partners into costing and routing decisions.

Share demand and inventory information in real time.

Use multicurrency, multilingual, and multisite support to speed transactions, improve transparency, and provide consolidated financial reporting to people worldwide.

Offer trade partners security-enhanced, self-service access to key business processes through familiar Web browsers.

Price lists

Access integrated cost information.

Easily generate price lists for finished goods of various quality grades, sizing, and quantities.

Create and maintain special promotional, trade show, or showroom pricing.

Units of measure and conversion

Automate measurement conversions based on algorithms for improved accuracy and consistency.