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the Fact Sheet for High Tech & Electronic Industries for Microsoft
Dynamics AX (396kb)
As a fabless or semiconductor manufacturing company, you face unique
supply chain visibility challenges because 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 & Electronics
Industries 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 Visibility and Control of the Supply Chain 
Microsoft Dynamics AX for High Tech & Electronic Industries not only
helps you gain control and optimize your 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 & Electronic Industries 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 & Electronic 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 & Electronic
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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Benefit
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Description
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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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