Manufacturing Overview:

Dynamics AX and the associated Microsoft Dynamics Industry Solutions (MDIS) are ideal for a wide range of manufacturing organisations which include mixed mode operation, engineer-to-order, discrete and process.
Sense has experience and solutions for the following types of manufacturing clients:

• Lean Manufacturing
• Animal Feed Manufacturing
• General Process Manufacturing
• Food Process Manufacturing
• Industrial Equipment Manufacturing

Our deep, real world industry experience enables Sense to understand your business processes and practices, and advise where improvements can be achieved through the deployment of Dynamics AX and the associated solutions and technologies.

Manufacturing in Dynamics AX
Reduce time to market and respond quickly to changing customer demands within manufacturing in Microsoft Dynamics® AX. Real-time insight into business and supply chain information—including inventory, warehouse, and production—helps you optimise production flow by planning effectively, maximizing resource utilisation, driving accurate delivery performance, and streamlining business processes.

With manufacturing in Microsoft Dynamics AX, your people can plan production to meet exacting schedules and delivery demands. They can track inventory levels and plan delivery routing with flexibility and control. Through the integration within AX, it is possible to access logistics, trade, and customer relationship management (CRM) data to plan orders for purchase, production, and transfer, and help minimise inventory levels, meet customer requirements, and provide reliable promises for delivery. Production sites can be planned using multi-site capabilities to maintain various production units for planning and execution.

Enhance process efficiencies with specialised Role Centers that help organize relevant tasks, information, and tools in a personalised view so people can manage their work easily. People on the shop floor can access real-time, detailed information, including time used and the raw materials consumed for individual jobs or operations. Production managers can easily gain the business insight they need using business analytics, including detailed reports for lead time, defect ratio, capacity utilisation, and planned versus actual consumption.

Benefits:

Manage production in a demand-driven environment: View real-time, integrated work in progress (WIP) with actual costs; make adjustments to avoid potential delays or cost overruns; and streamline inventory management based on demand and forecasting.

Anticipate and reduce bottlenecks: Gain tight control over every aspect of the production floor with bottleneck scheduling. Quickly view processes and work utilisation as a whole with a Gantt chart and use drag-and-drop rescheduling to minimize delays.

Gain deep insight across the supply chain: With visibility throughout the entire supply chain, you can streamline business processes, optimise resources, minimise lead times, and identify accurate delivery dates.

Improve control of production processes: Define manufacturing resources, including machines, people, tools, and subcontractors, and allocate them to work center groups. Tightly control schedules by using finite or infinite capacity scheduling for maximum flexibility.