Reduce Gaps in your Supply Chain with Microsoft Dynamics 365 Supply Chain Management
Global supply chains are seeing a significant increase in disruptions for many reasons, from natural disasters, to trade wars, and global health crisis. Now is the time to get the right solutions to improve real-time visibility across your supply chains, so you can react faster and mitigate risk.
Do you face these supply chain issues?
Facing supply chain issues is one of the top reasons companies begin the journey of ERP evaluation. If you face any of these issues, Microsoft Dynamics 365 is a viable solution for your organization’s digital transformation:
- Tight Cash flow and social distancing have led to a smaller and less efficient workforce.
- Achieving end-to-end visibility and forecasting demand have become more challenging than ever.
- The inability to evaluate and predict increased capacity strain is causing more asset downtime.
- Finding cost savings through agile planning and distribution has become a matter of survival.
Microsoft Dynamics 365 Supply Chain Management Capabilities
Planning, forecasting, and inventory management
- Predict demand using AI to make inventory decisions with priority-based supply planning in near real-time, eliminating stockouts and overstocking.
- Complete material requirements and resource planning quickly so planners can react to demand changes in near real-time.
- Enrich historical demand data with AI predictions powered by Azure Machine Learning to improve forecasting.
- Position inventory with stock buffers to minimize the risk for stockouts with demand-driven planning.
- Have the right products in the right place at the right time with a single view of inventory across channels.
- Effectively communicate across sales, marketing, and operations using Microsoft Teams to streamline sales and operations planning.
Procurement and sourcing
- Streamline buying processes and improve cost management with vendor portals and linking to vendor catalogs.
- Identify risks to future planned purchases with data about supplier past performance and product metrics.
- Realize maximum cost savings by automatically applying negotiated pricing based on business-defined purchase policies.
- Quickly onboard vendors and collaborate across procurement processes such as purchase order management, request for quotation bidding, and invoicing.
- Build redundancy for critical supplies to reduce parts shortages by enabling links to external vendor catalogs.
- Effectively track vendor performance, lead ties, and quality with embedded purchasing insights using built-in Power BI templates.
Order management and pricing
- Leverage rule-based fulfillment efficiency through distributed order management to determine the fulfillment location for on-time deliveries.
- Give accurate inventory information to customers at order entry and make reservations using real-time inventory and available-to-promise (ATP) data.
- Offer consistency in pricing with flexible rebate calculations, target transactions, and trade allowance management capabilities.
- Leverage real-time pricing calculations across multiple channels and simulate pricing scenarios based on customer-, product-, and channel-based attributes.
Asset management and maintenance
- Perform proactive equipment maintenance to reduce downtime and ensure accuracy in engineering change management.
- Proactively manage business-critical equipment by performing all types of maintenance – predictive, corrective, condition-based, and preventative-throughout the asset life cycle.
- Increase throughput, improve quality, and reduce downtime of mission-critical assets by using IoT and mixed reality.
- Optimize resource capacity utilization and avoid conflicts for maintenance work and production activities for geographically dispersed assets with advanced scheduling capabilities.
Warehouse management and fulfillment
- Expedite delivery times by optimizing inventory, automating warehousing operations, and increasing throughput.
- Ensure accuracy and efficiency for warehousing operations using a built-in mobile application.
- Pop up new warehouses quickly with step-by-step, guided implementation wizards.
- Fulfill orders efficiently with guided paperless picking, and pack and sort shipments using a customizable mobile app.
- Mitigate labor shortages by augmenting warehouse staff with robotic automation for material handline.
- Consolidate warehousing data with a comprehensive warehouse management module driven by real-time inventory visibility, carrier data, and material-handling event information.
Copilot for Microsoft Dynamics 365 Supply Chain Management
Supply chain disruptions happen daily, which shifts supply and demand. Workers, like procurement professionals and buyers, sift through volumes of purchase order change requests daily and need more intelligent and agile tools to streamline this process. Responses often require changes to ordered quantities, delivery dates, or products delivered. Today, procurement professionals must review the changes for individual orders one by one to identify the risk to plan and potential downstream impacts. With Microsoft 365 Copilot for Dynamics 365 Supply Chain Management, users can efficiently manage purchase order changes and assess risk to make good procurement decisions. Visit our SIS Copilot page to learn more.
SIS Construct 365 Project Cost Management
with Microsoft Dynamics 365 Supply Chain Management
Microsoft Partner, SIS LLC, provides the only true end-to-end construction and project-based solution in the Dynamics channel. Over 25 years, SIS has developed construction and project-based solutions purpose built for Microsoft Dynamics 365 construction sectors: specialty, mechanical, heavy civil, energy, and government, the SIS Construct Solution with Microsoft Dynamics 365 is the key to project profitability and managing risk.
The graph on the right shows how the SIS Project Cost Management (PCM) module integrates with Microsoft Dynamics 365 Supply Chain Management. With SIS Construct 365 PCM, users have a full financial solution for forecasting, mitigating risk, managing margin gain/fade and variance, update EAC and other vital functionality for construction project profitability. Please visit our SIS Construct 365 pages for more information on each module.
