Manufacturing
Microsoft® Business Solutions Manufacturing–Navision® supports the implementation of world-class manufacturing philosophies. The solution includes functionality to effectively manage your manufacturing processes including production orders, bills of material, supply planning, and capacity requirements planning. Microsoft Business Solutions–Navision® helps you become more responsive to customers and improve business performance. It provides you with tools to manage manufacturing processes such as production orders, bills of material, supply planning, and capacity requirements planning.
Manufacturing allows you to improve your business performance through efficient manufacturing processes and to take advantage of new revenue opportunities. You can instantly change your manufacturing methods and processes to reflect changing customer needs. If you have less complex production processes, Manufacturing Foundation for Microsoft Business Solutions–Navision® provides the core planning and process management capabilities you need. It offers an entry point for smaller manufacturers, along with the ability to add modules and capabilities at your own pace.

Key Benefits:

	Take advantage of new revenue opportunities
	Provide more responsive customer service
	Improve business performance from shop floor to bottom line

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Change Manufacturing Methods and Processes Instantly
Microsoft Manufacturing allows you to instantly change your manufacturing methods and processes, helping you to keep up with changing customer needs. You can modify components and operations on the fly, even on released production orders. When a change occurs, you can update and replan all materials, costs and operations simultaneously, without time-consuming batch jobs.Multiple planning options, tracking, and action messaging allow you to quickly and easily make exceptions and last-minute changes to give customers what they want, when they want it. You can plan from the sales order, the production order, the purchase requisition, or by traditional MPS/MRP planning methods. Furthermore, purchase planners can easily recognize how to adjust supplier delivery schedules to take advantage of new revenue opportunities.

Change Business Processes Easily
With Microsoft Manufacturing, you can readily change your business processes to accommodate changing workload and customer requirements.  You can implement realistic plans according to your capacity demands, and you can redefine:

	Order modifiers and reorder policies as needed
	Capacity and calendars to optimize shop load
	Manufacturing policy options to adapt quickly to new projects

Implement the Most Efficient Processes Immediately
When a customer’s needs change, you can easily incorporate the changes made on the shop floor to optimize the current workload.  For example, parallel routing enables you to create critical operational paths for make-to-order and project manufacturing.

Design Efficient Manufacturing Processes
Microsoft Manufacturing provides powerful planning tools that give you the freedom to choose the optimum manufacturing process for ultimate profitability. For example, when planning production orders, you can plan product family orders that share the same routing. This allows you to make more efficient build schedules. To help you better meet customer demand, Microsoft Manufacturing supports efficient collaboration with long-term partners through the use of blanket orders.

Speed Up Orders
Microsoft Manufacturing speeds up orders by providing visibility into all aspects of your manufacturing processes. You can improve efficiency and reduce lead time by:

	Redefining setup and queue times on the fly
	Redefining capacity on the fly
	Using the send-ahead function to control material flow to the next operation

Gain Greater Visibility of Your Business Processes
Microsoft Manufacturing helps you quickly identify processes that could be changed to operate more efficiently and profitably. For example, shop floor operations are readily visible to management so you can easily design new processes to produce a positive impact on the bottom line.  And, you can respond immediately to emergencies because they are easy to spot, track and act upon. You can also plan from the sales order. This gives you the flexibility to define the product order structure, making it easier to track the status of multiline and/or multilevel orders.Inefficiencies are easy to spot because you can monitor shop floor progress job-by-job.You can also make better pricing decisions because costs, materials, and operations are simultaneously replanned to reflect shop floor changes. You can switch instantly between manufacturing policies to optimize your business and plan additional critical paths, on the fly, to improve delivery.

Implement without Disruption
You get immediate value from your investment because Microsoft Manufacturing can be implemented with little disruption to your current manufacturing processes.You can start with a basic implementation and benefit immediately. Then, you can add value with phased software implementation—expanding functionality as your business needs require.Training time is reduced because you can retrain with phased implementation. Flexible planning options let you manually plan production orders, or plan them from sales orders, while implementing MRP functionality.While you implement capacity requirements planning (CRP) and routings, you can calculate and plan production times based on lead times on the item card.Microsoft Manufacturing is designed for maximum operational and setup flexibility, so that implementation time is reduced to a minimum.  You can fine-tune the system while it is working and easily implement changes as your operations demand. Furthermore, you don’t need to forecast all manufacturing scenarios during setup – you can respond on the fly.

Effectively Manage your Warehouse and Manufacturing
Another application area of Microsoft Business Solutions–Navision is Warehousing, which enables you to increase the efficiency of your warehouse. Warehousing works hand in hand with your Microsoft Manufacturing solution. Microsoft Warehousing functionality enables you to speed up the order handling process to increase customer service and reduce warehouse costs. It provides accurate and transparent inventory data to allow you to streamline your warehouse operations.   Microsoft Warehousing also gives you the warehouse management tools to be able to optimize your warehouse layout and space utilization.Manufacturing can be implemented with little disruption to your current manufacturing processes. You can start with a basic implementation and benefit immediately and then add value later with phased software implementation – expanding functionality as your business needs require it.

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