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The profitability of a company in the Manufacturing Industry depends on how difficult it is to manufacture the products and on the commoditization of the supply.
Most of the manufacturing industries spend their energies in integration of production process. They look for a fine synchronization between the raw material acquisitions, its usage in production and making of a finished product as per customer needs and requirements and delivery to customer as per demand. Moreover, increased competition leads to a price war leading to diminishing margins. There is also a need to tightly manage the inventory at hand and the inventory distributed. These pressing issues force the companies look for a well integrated ERP with low cost of ownership that help them tackle highly volatile market scenarios and make them more profitable with increased ROI on the long run.
B2B Software Technologies offer the Microsoft Dynamics Nav as the solution of choice.
B2B have developed the add-ons for Microsoft like Hr & Payroll, Quality Control and Plant maintenance, which illustrates their expertise in the product. B2B were working on Navision even before Navision was taken over by Microsoft.
Microsoft Dyanamics Nav provides the integration in production process. The Manufacturing module is integrated with Inventory, Sales & Purchases and finance modules. The workflow in the Manufacturing module is well organized. The module provides to define items in detail, like their replenishment, substitution and tracking process. The module facilitates to define Production BOM, BOM versions, routing and routing versions. The Machine centers and work centers as designed in a way that the workload on each capacity is measurable and adjustable depending on exigency, this also makes easy the absence calculation. Production planning can be initiated through requisition work sheet and planning work sheet for manual planning. The application also provides the best planning engines for MRP and MPS. The tracking is inbuilt for a material starting from initial raw material stage to the finished product stage. The module provides various reports like Production order list, Production order shortage list, Capacity Gantt chart, Planning availability, production forecast, cost comparison report etc.
The Manufacturing and Inventory modules are well integrated, the material flow from purchase to inventory is registered and once the material is drawn for usage by production the requisite quantity addition / reduction are affected.
The module is also integrated with sales, wherein a sales person can raise the order for production from sales module itself as per the demand, which will be considered for planning in production. At any point of time the sales person will be in a position to know the manufacturing status of the required product in production flow enabling him to know the availability, the time when the product is expected enabling him to keep the customer informed about the same leading to a better customer satisfaction.
The module is also integrated with financial module effecting in all the changes being effected in the respective ledgers and journals.
The add-on Plant Maintenance module provides all the details regarding the machines, their vendors, maintenance, spares and equipment details. Various reports like equipment usage, expenditure on equipment, Machine and equipment daily reports, PM Mobilization and subcontractor are available.
Thus, the application helps companies to achieve greater responsiveness to customers and improve business performance. It provides comprehensive distribution, trading and manufacturing functionality to manage all aspects of a manufacturers business. Flexible modular system design and delivery enables customers to purchase system functionality tailored to their needs and add to functionality as needed. Additional flexibility capabilities to meet customer specific requirements are also included. Navision is particularly suited to single site or multiple independent site requirements. |
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