Process Manufacturing

In the highly competitive and regulated industry of today’s process manufacturers, companies are relying on technology to automate business processes and “do more with less” while maintaining strict security over their information. Microsoft Dynamics GP is a fully integrated solution that helps simplify critical functions like formula management, production scheduling, tracking, and complying with industry and government regulations process with ease.

Our process manufacturing solutionss go the extra mile to solve challenges throughout your organization. Our team of manufacturing specialists is experienced in implementing industry specific solutions including Chemical Manufacturing and Food and Beverage Manufacturing.


Chemical Manufacturing: Formulate a Solution for Greater Success

Microsoft Dynamics solutions enable chemical manufacturers to rise above market and industry pressures to give your resources the tools they need to drive your business forward. Our business management solutions are configured specifically for process and mixed-mode manufacturing.

Microsoft Dynamics, an end-to-end business solution, can integrate the following key business processes and support efficient, collaborative work based on common information and tools. In addition to helping you save time, money, and manual effort, integrated software systems can enhance the bottom line by offering greater management insight, streamlined regulatory compliance, and flexibility to adapt to changing conditions and needs.

With Microsoft Dynamics solutions for chemical manufacturing you can:
  • Optimize operations by monitoring real-time inventory levels, production schedules, energy use, and manufacturing processes to efficiently schedule batches
  • Track all manufacturing operations for streamlined regulatory compliance and to permit efficient product recalls if required.
  • Take advantage of market demand, supply chain, and plant manufacturing visibility to optimize manufacturing capacity, raw material and finished goods inventories, co-products, by-products, and outsourced production opportunities.
  • Connect R&D with customer requests, raw materials procurement, production planning, and sales to speed time-to-market for new or improved products.
  • Manage unlimited numbers of formulas and recipes incorporating variables such as potency, catch weight, and yields.
  • Enhance quality assurance by tracking production statistics and comparing them against customer or internal specifications.
  • Create multi-dimensional inventory records that track product-specific traits including shelf life and lots.
  • Measure industry- and customer-specific key performance indicators (KPIs) and easily disseminate them with familiar desktop software.

Gain a competitive advantage

Attractively priced and easy to use, Microsoft Dynamics gives chemical manufacturers control of their processes, increased efficiency, and real-time information throughout the product life cycle and across the supply chain. Tightly integrated processes and tools can help streamline product development, customer relationship management, marketing, and the sales and distribution cycle for fast time-to-market, increased customer satisfaction, and improved profitability.


Food & Beverage Manufacturing: Full Operational Visibility

Microsoft Dynamics and Systematica Inc. utilize familiar desktop applications that provide an excellent customer experience and help lower total cost of ownership while meeting government regulations, responding quickly to customers through real-time business intelligence and readily actionable work flows, deliver true plant-floor intelligence, gain visibility across the global supply chain, and employ mobility solutions that can help grow your Food & Beverage manufacturing business.

The goal of Microsoft Dynamics and Systematica Inc is to help you and your employees speed the time from concept to shelf, remove waste from operations, and meet new demands from large retailers meeting the needs of key target roles in your organization:

Engineers/Product Development will be enabled to:
  • Collaborate globally on recipes, formulas, and packaging to support 24-hour engineering cycles
  • Utilize real-time sales information to identify trends and opportunities for new products
  • Engage with manufacturing as the product is being built or months in advance
  • Utilize powerful project management tools integrated into back office systems
  • Utilize intelligent knowledge management to identify opportunities for high-quality component and process re-use
  • Utilize a technology stack (from Microsoft) used for general collaboration, plant floor automation and cross-company visibility solutions
  • Enable agility and innovation
Operations Management/Finance will be enabled to:
  • Provide retailers with the transparency they need into inventory and product availability and deliver with integrated RFID and bar code systems.
  • Facilitate traceability through birth histories that identify every action taken for a specific component for a particular order
  • Improve productivity and return on assets (ROA) with full visibility across processes, lines, departments, plants, outsourced operations, and throughout the global supply network
  • Improve plant-floor accountability through implementing metric-setting and tracking for individual plant floor assets and processes
  • Increase flexibility and speed by leveraging digital simulations and intelligent systems to optimize process and material flows
  • Improve quality through real-time intelligence and alerts to enable proactive responses and support good decisions
  • Support lean processes for manufacturing systems that also are completely integrated with financial and reporting
  • Provide industry-specific KPIs and benchmarks
Sales, Marketing and Service Management will be enabled to:
  • Have seamless communication between retailers and themselves, enabling faster, more responsive service
  • Deliver 24x7 data access to customers on key issues such as order status, product availability, and detailed product information
  • Become a trusted advisor with a comprehensive view of each customer to assist in customer service coordination and keep profitability high
  • Share information with improved security and freely utilize easy-to-use and known desktop tools
Operations, Purchasing and Supply Chain Management will be enabled to:
  • Utilize technology solutions that support a Demand Driven Supply Network (DDSN) to respond quickly to real-time customer demand signals
  • Implement emerging RFID technologies along with global data synchronization and vendor-managed inventories
  • Use current desktop tools to see deeper into their supply chain
  • Use bar code, mobility devices, and radio frequency identification (RFID) to provide real-time information in order to create transparency into supplier and customer organizations
  • Proactively adapt to changing business requirements by tightly coupling planning and execution processes with 24/7 collaboration between customers, suppliers, and partners
  • Become very agile with transparent visibility into demand, inventory, and logistics issues across the supply chain
  • Speed product development by tightly integrating internal engineering organizations with those of vendors
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