Face high-tech manufacturing challenges efficiently and cost-effectively

High-tech manufacturers face shorter product life cycles, unpredictable demand, and price erosion caused by fierce worldwide competition. A robust, flexible IT infrastructure can help you compete efficiently and cost effectively. And Microsoft Dynamics solutions can help you improve innovation and time-to-market. Microsoft Dynamics delivers powerful manufacturing, financial, and customer relationship management (CRM) solutions.

Benefits of Microsoft Dynamics solutions for high-tech manufacturers

Microsoft Dynamics solutions support:

• Supply chain management and visibility
• Collaborative design and production planning
• Lean manufacturing
• Outsourced manufacturing management
• Industry and customer specific reporting
• Vendor managed inventory
• Product life-cycle management
• Enterprise portal technology
• Demand planning and forecasting
• RosettaNet integration
• Fabless semiconductor manufacturing
• Field service management
• Linking customer requirements directly to manufacturing, suppliers, and distribution operations

By implementing a Microsoft Dynamics solution, you can:

• Manage the supply chain. Work in close coordination with and track and manage your global suppliers and customers. Microsoft Dynamics solutions can give you: Insight into the demand signals of your customers, transparency of product and manufacturing data, and visibility outside your internal operations-all so you can make fast and accurate decisions. Real-time collaboration with suppliers can also help you speed time-to-market and increase the number of innovations in new products.
   
• Cut costs and time-to-market. Link your accounting, manufacturing, shipping, and CRM tasks to develop more efficient proposals, to monitor the supply, shipping, and delivery of products, and to reduce wasteful practices. You can expedite time-to-market for new products and upgrades by integrating engineering bills of materials with internal applications. An integrated IT system can also help you identify components and subassemblies already in-house that can be used in new product designs.
   
• Increase visibility. Collaborate on products, processes, and production by using manufacturing and supply chain systems that take advantage of security-enhanced, Web-based products and technologies. You can reduce the time it takes to get a concept from engineering to manufacturing. Do this by speeding development with collaboration tools and integrating design with manufacturing systems. A flexible, integrated IT infrastructure enables you to gather customer information, and then integrate it into decisions between design, procurement, manufacturing, suppliers, and customers.
   
• Focus on innovation. Microsoft Dynamics enables you to spend more time developing innovative, compelling products and less time being concerned with operating your software systems. Product features and data automation can help you master several recurring challenges and take advantage of such ongoing opportunities as building high yield even from very short product life cycles, anticipating and responding to rapidly changing product demand, delivering high value and avoiding rapid price erosion, competing effectively in a global market, and controlling your manufacturing costs.