Electronics manufacturers face the challenge of building large numbers of increasingly complex products cost-effectively, while remaining responsive to customer and regulatory demands like traceability and lead-free manufacturing. With an evolving mix of new products, design revisions, and short-lived product lifecycles; inventory control and supply chain visibility become critical pieces of the competitive puzzle.

Dynamics AX High Tech: Electronics allows you to balance workloads between factories, manage inventory and quality on a global scale, and have real time insight into your supply chain and business performance. As the Bill of Materials (BOM) becomes increasing more complex and the production schedules more rigid, the ability to efficiently manage your supply chain can make the difference in meeting a critical production schedule and ensuring customer satifaction.

With the rapid innovation in the industry, (ie. cell phones, portable media players, hi-definition televisions, laptops and PCs) technology can quickly eclipse itself leading to inventory obsolescence. Manufacturers must be able to account for and unload obsolete inventories to operate as lean as possible and remain financially competitive.

Beyond these day-to-day manufacturing challenges, global electronics manufacturers face the challenge of not only supporting organic growth but also synthetic growth through new acquisitions. Operational flexibility and rapid implementation rollout to newly acquired facilities provides exponential benefits by scaling with the global growth of the business.

• Engineering Change Order (ECO) tracking
• Engineering Change Notifications (ECN)
• BOM version control
• Materials purchasing with Approved Vendor Lists (AVL)
• Inventory management & consignment
• Shop floor management
• Multiple factory workload balancing
• Quality assurance & control
• Full product, process, and lot traceability
• Advanced Planning & Scheduling (APS)
• Sales Order Management