The manufacturing world is changing at a dramatic pace. The lines between supplier, manufacturer and customer are blurring as long-term, mutually beneficial partnerships are formed. Suppliers are taking more responsibility for their customers' bottom line by ensuring that raw materials arrive at the factory just as they're needed in the manufacturing process. Many manufacturers have created Web sites and are implementing tools that allow their customers to place orders directly over the Internet. Although customers are demanding increased levels of flexibility and responsiveness, their unprecedented access to information makes them ideal consumers for the customer-centric manufacturer.

It's technology that has brought about these changes and the right technology tools can help your firm stay ahead of the competition. Powerful, cost-effective resource planning and management tools should enable collaboration between trading partners, allow you to manage the entire life cycle of the manufacturing business process and help you to build a sustainable competitive advantage in your industry.

Microsoft Dynamics for Manufacturing-Microsoft Dynamics GPprovides a comprehensive suite of applications designed for the make-to-stock, make-to-order, assemble-to order and hybrid manufacturing environments. Powerful and easy to use, the Manufacturing series gives you the tools you need to manage production and resource planning, helping you reduce costs, boost customer satisfaction and improve profitability.

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Engineering Change Management

As markets accelerate, so does the pace of change. New technologies and new customer demands increase the pressure on engineering to make process and component adjustments that accommodate such changes while maintaining or improving efficiencies and profitability. Engineering Change Management helps manufacturers organise and control this dynamic process.

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Job Costing

To help ensure business is profitable, you need accurate, current and easy-to-access data about every costing detail relating to a job. Job Costing delivers this functionality to manufacturers by capturing all costs when they occur and consolidating them into one location that's easy to access and manage-delivering a comprehensive view of production profitability.

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Bill of Materials

Bill of Materials delivers complete, consistent and correct product information, enabling you to maximise production efficiency and cut inventory costs across the extended enterprise. By tightly integrating different types of bills and customised definitions into manufacturing operations, Bill of Materials helps improve performance, support time-to-market and time-to-volume objectives and ensure materials are where they should be, when they are needed.

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Manufacturing Order Processing

Track production costs in detail and manage work orders, routings, outsourcing and work centre definitions. By directing the entire cycle of order processing, you can build a business that is both customer-driven and profitable.

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Materials Requirements Planning

Material Requirements Planning helps you realize the control you need to compete. Deep visibility into material requirements translates into more effective resource planning-helping reduce stock outages, drive down inventory costs and streamline the production process.

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Quality Assurance

By allowing you to design testing procedures of incoming materials to meet your manufacturing process, Quality Assurance equips you to start with the quality of raw materials you require, dramatically helps to reduce manufacturing delays, rework and scrap.

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Sales Forecasting

Whenever you bring together people to accomplish a task, communication challenges may arise, especially when those people have different objectives and backgrounds. Your sales teams and manufacturing managers probably face these challenges, yet effective communication between these divergent groups is the first step to ensuring product delivery that's both efficient and effective.

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