Global supply chains are under pressure from various disruptions, including natural disasters, trade wars, and global health crises. It’s essential to find the right solutions to improve real-time visibility and resilience in your supply chain, allowing you to react swiftly and mitigate risks.
Are You Facing These Supply Chain Challenges?
Supply chain issues often drive companies to explore ERP solutions. If you recognize any of these challenges, Microsoft Dynamics 365 could be the perfect fit for your digital transformation journey:
- Smaller Workforce: Tight cash flow and social distancing have reduced workforce efficiency.
- Visibility and Forecasting: Achieving end-to-end visibility and accurately forecasting demand is harder than ever.
- Capacity Strain: Difficulty in evaluating and predicting capacity strain leads to increased asset downtime.
- Cost Savings: Agile planning and distribution are crucial for uncovering cost savings.
How Microsoft Dynamics 365 Supply Chain Management Can Help
Planning, Forecasting, and Inventory Management
- Predict Demand with AI: Use AI to make informed inventory decisions, reducing stockouts and overstocking.
- React Quickly: Complete material requirements and resource planning swiftly to respond to demand changes.
- Improve Forecasting: Enrich historical demand data with AI predictions from Azure Machine Learning.
- Minimize Stockouts: Use stock buffers and demand-driven planning to minimize stockout risks.
- Optimize Inventory: Maintain the right products in the right places with a unified inventory view.
- Streamline Communication: Enhance coordination across sales, marketing, and operations using Microsoft Teams.
Procurement and Sourcing
- Simplify Buying Processes: Improve cost management with vendor portals and links to vendor catalogs.
- Identify Risks: Analyze supplier performance data to foresee risks in planned purchases.
- Achieve Cost Savings: Automatically apply negotiated pricing based on purchase policies.
- Collaborate Efficiently: Onboard vendors quickly and streamline procurement processes like order management and invoicing.
- Ensure Redundancy: Reduce parts shortages by linking to external vendor catalogs.
- Track Performance: Use Power BI templates to monitor vendor performance, lead times, and quality.
Order Management and Pricing
- Optimize Fulfillment: Use rule-based order management to ensure timely deliveries.
- Provide Real-Time Information: Offer accurate inventory details and make reservations using real-time data.
- Maintain Consistent Pricing: Implement flexible rebate calculations and trade allowance management.
- Simulate Pricing Scenarios: Conduct real-time pricing calculations based on various attributes.
Asset Management and Maintenance
- Proactive Maintenance: Reduce downtime with predictive, corrective, condition-based, and preventative maintenance.
- Manage Equipment: Enhance business-critical equipment management throughout its lifecycle.
- Boost Efficiency: Improve throughput and quality while reducing downtime using IoT and mixed reality.
- Optimize Resources: Prevent maintenance and production conflicts with advanced scheduling.
Warehouse Management and Fulfillment
- Speed Up Deliveries: Optimize inventory and automate warehousing to increase throughput.
- Enhance Efficiency: Ensure accurate warehousing operations with a built-in mobile app.
- Set Up Quickly: Utilize guided implementation wizards for new warehouse setups.
- Fulfill Orders Efficiently: Employ paperless picking and customizable mobile apps for packing and sorting shipments.
- Address Labor Shortages: Use robotic automation to support material handling.
- Unify Data: Integrate warehouse management data for real-time visibility and improved decision-making.
Introducing Copilot for Microsoft Dynamics 365 Supply Chain Management
Daily supply chain disruptions require intelligent and agile tools. With Microsoft 365 Copilot for Dynamics 365 Supply Chain Management, procurement professionals can manage purchase order changes more efficiently and assess risks to make better decisions.
Visit our SIS Copilot page to learn more.
Why Choose Incite Gravity?
At Incite Gravity, we specialize in helping businesses like yours transform their supply chain management with Microsoft Dynamics 365. Our expert team will guide you through the implementation process, ensuring you get the most out of this powerful tool. Contact us today to find out how we can help you achieve a more efficient, resilient supply chain.
