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What good looks like in Manufacturing

Cost visibility, planning against real capacity, and the connection between what happens on the floor and what appears in the ledger.

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Four outcomes in Manufacturing

ManufacturingStrategy & Transformation

A heavily customised ERP retired across twenty-four plants

A global electronic components manufacturer — Global

The challenge

The existing ERP was highly customised and expensive to maintain, and could not support material requirements planning across a business with power assets of 500 components and 65,000 SKUs.

What was done

Dynamics 365 Finance and Supply Chain Management were deployed across twenty-four manufacturing locations, giving the company a single system and global reporting for the first time.

24Manufacturing locations
65,000SKUs managed
1System, for the first time
  • A single system replacing a costly, heavily customised estate.
  • Global reporting possible for the first time.
  • MRP running in both directions across inbound and outbound forecasting.
  • Adoption across customer service, quality, manufacturing, finance and engineering.
Dynamics 365 FinanceDynamics 365 Supply Chain Management
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ManufacturingBusiness Applications

Month-end close cut by a quarter across sixteen plants

An international packaging materials producer — Europe and Asia

The challenge

Fragmented legacy systems, manual operations and limited visibility across global supply chain and finance processes were slowing delivery and obscuring inventory and cost.

What was done

Dynamics 365 Finance and Supply Chain Management were implemented to unify operations, automate manual tasks and provide real-time insight across sixteen manufacturing plants.

25%Reduction in month-end close time
16Plants standardised
Real-timeInventory and cost visibility
  • Processes standardised across plants in eight countries.
  • Month-end close time reduced by a quarter.
  • Inventory and cost visibility improved across every site.
  • Delivery speed improved through automation of manual steps.
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ManufacturingData, AI & Integration

A forecast horizon extended from three months to eighteen

A specialist pipe manufacturer — Europe

The challenge

Demand forecasting was reactive rather than forward-looking. The planning horizon was short, business units planned separately, and external storage costs reflected imprecise purchasing.

What was done

The manufacturer was among the first to adopt demand planning in Dynamics 365 Supply Chain Management, built on Power Platform, taking a low-code approach to demand modelling.

3 mo → 18 moForecast horizon
SignificantStorage cost reduction
Low-codeDemand modelling
  • Forecast horizon extended from three months to a year and a half.
  • Business units brought together into coordinated planning.
  • External storage need and associated costs reduced through more precise purchasing.
  • Forecasting made accessible to people across the supply chain, not only planners.
Dynamics 365 Supply Chain ManagementPower Platform
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ManufacturingStrategy & Transformation

Sixty acquired companies onto one value chain

A multinational food ingredients group — Europe

The challenge

A multi-local operating model built from sixty small and mid-sized companies had produced a scattered IT landscape with disparate ERPs, blocking collaboration and cross-selling.

What was done

Dynamics 365 Finance and Supply Chain Management were made the anchor of the group's digital strategy, with master planning driving procurement and manufacturing from forecast orders.

60Companies consolidating
End-to-endValue chain control
OptimisedWarehouse processes
  • Full control of the value chain from raw material to finished product across borders.
  • Master planning driving procurement and manufacturing from forecast demand.
  • Warehouse processes optimised, saving time on inbound and outbound activity.
  • Transparency enabling the cross-selling the operating model had prevented.
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