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Enterprise resource planning (ERP) for electronics manufacturing and high tech industries presents its own unique challenges. As a fabless, semiconductor or other electronics manufacturing company, most of your production activities occur in foundries, tests houses and other facilities frequently located around the world. Adding to the complexity, the high tech industry is subject to short product life cycles with long lead times. Microsoft Dynamics AX for High Tech Industries, ERP for electronics manufacturing, provides the visibility you need to manage every aspect of the supply chain, including contract manufacturing and trading partner management, to balance demand with production efforts, maintain optimum inventory levels and meet customer expectations profitably.
Increase Supply Chain Visibility and Control with ERP for Electronics Manufacturing
Microsoft Dynamics AX for High TechIndustries not only helps you gain control and optimize your electronics manufacturing production operations, it provides the supply chain visibility you need to better understand the status of outsourced activities and trading partner relationships and their impact on orders, inventory and distribution.
Boost Forecast Accuracy and Reduce Inventory Write Off
Microsoft Dynamics AX for High Tech, ERP for electronics manufacturing companies, has the functionality you need to balance inventory levels to maintain customer service levels for products in an explosive demand phase while maintaining the visibility needed to adjust forecasts and reduce inventory write off.
Reduce Inventories and Improve Customer Service
Like all industries, fabless/semiconductor companies must balance operational activities against customer service levels in the name of profit. Microsoft Dynamics AX for High Tech Industries reduces inventories without compromising delivery performance by accurately depicting real-time inventory levels so you can adjust forecasts and inventory restocking points to ensure adequate supplies.
Meet Quality Management Requirements
Manufacturers can use Microsoft Dynamics AX for High Tech, ERP for electronics manufacturing and high tech industries, to document all standard processes for quality management. Features such as non-conformance management, RMA tracking, problem types, internal problems, non-conformance costs, corrective actions and e-mail alerts provide the control and predictability you need to gain exact control over all your internal and outsourced production activities.
Features Overview
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Order Management
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Includes enhanced sales order line, order change history, an order planning workbench, booking/billings/backlogs and final customer tracking.
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Production Management
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Supports approved vendor lists and approved manufacturing lists, approval routings for ECO, ECN, MCO and POs, start lots, split lots, merge/combine lots, yields, actual versus standard yield reporting, and binning and grading.
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Subcontractor Interface
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A subcontractor workbench provides an automated interface to approve/import PO receipts, lot starts, lot moves and WIP completion date from subcontractors via .xml, .xls or Rosetta Net. A Subcontractor WIP status let you import detailed WIP data for analysis, reporting or updating the source PO.
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Quality Management
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Quality assurance includes non-conformance management, RMA tracking, problem types, internal problems, non-conformance costs, corrective actions and e-mail alerts. Quality control includes test types, qualitative/quantitative, mandatory/informative, certificate of analysis and blocking logic.
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Forecasting/Planning/Scheduling
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Enables automatic forecast import/export and bucketed production build planning, which is useful to determine the timing and quantity of wafer lot starts, and moves into assembly test.
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Purchasing
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Automatically processes receipts against purchase orders based on production feedback and provides operation-based pay points based on number of units in (testing) or out (good die).
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Logistics
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Includes inventory consignment and inventory reservations allocations.
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