Microsoft Dynamics AX Implementation at a Leading Garment Manufacturer
Business Need
The company was undergoing rapid expansion organically and through acquisitions. The existing Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system was neither able to handle its current or future requirements nor scale up in line with expansion plans. The challenges faced by the company included:
- Production planning was undertaken on an equal priority planning basis while schedules needed to be based on profit margins and prioritized for different customer types
- Production control was based on credit availability to the customer. Invoicing was not aligned with shipping resulting in invoices reaching the customer before the goods.
- Client teams in various geographies had no access to online reports
- Manual entry led to duplication of item information in the system
Our Solution
Our solution, based on Microsoft Dynamics AX, introduced process efficiency by reducing batch/ lot size and reduced lead times for order fulfillment and increasing order complexity. Faster order confirmation was enabled by allowing sales orders inquiries into inventory availability. It also made inter-company transactions transparent and efficient through better management and operational reporting based on user roles. Effective production planning, better inventory control, and automated order management were ensured through real time visibility and control over operations by providing interfaces with multiple legacy systems for an integrated ERP experience.
Benefits
- Better visibility into the production process with granular details at the work center level
- Better operational control and tracking of inventory movement in factories/ workshops and credit control
- Ability to automatically schedule the work center
- Integrated workflow for materials, production, storage, quality testing, and losses, streamlining business processes
- Bill of Materials (BOM) creation and version control
- Linkages to production of individual sales orders
- Linkage to ensure timely delivery
- Real time record for production and inventory update
- Financial system with automatic updates for transaction and inter-company reporting
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