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Production Manufacturing

Make-to-order manufacturing involves producing to customer demand, and makes extensive use of the production manufacturing, MRP, build-to-order, purchasing and other capabilities of Dynamics 365 manufacturing.

Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central and PrintVIS

Dynamics 365 Business Central is built for production manufacturing. As Microsoft’s flagship ERP for the Small and Medium manufacturer, Sabre feels is perfectly suited for those SMP Production Manufactures that need ERP functionality they can grow into.

The Production Manufacturer has generally developed a line of products for sale. They are not making products based on a customer’s designs or engineering specifications. They manufacture product as it’s ordered, or use forecasts to produce goods for stock to reduce order lead time. They generally have their own engineering staff; manage drawings, stock raw materials, track work in progress, etc.. They typically maintain a price book – as they might sell exactly the same item to different customers for different prices.

Production Challenges and Needs

Either Make-to-Stock or Make-to-Order or a mix of requirements.
There is a lot of inventory and items to manage and coordinate.
Buyers need to keep on top of raw materials to prevent schedule disruption.
Inventory levels are maintained as a hedge against mistakes.
Customer forecasts or sales forecasts need to be managed.
Capacity management and scheduling are critical.
Job costing, especially labor collection on the shop floor is important.
Quality and engineering control (Bills of Materials and Routings) is essential.

Business Central features for Production

Supports either Make-to-Order or Make-to-Stock replenishment methods.
Full warehouse and inventory management capabilities.
Use InsightWorks Warehouse Insights for advanced barcode inventory management.
Planning Worksheet and MRP/MPS capabilities automate purchasing and prevent over-stock and stock-outs.
Optional drag and drop scheduling from Netronic as well as full out of the box capacity planning and priority scheduling.
InsightWorks Shop Floor Insights provides paperless travelers and shop floor data collection.
Bill of Material and Routing management, versioning and costing out of the box.