Microsoft Dynamics for Manufacturing

Why Microsoft Dynamics for manufacturers?

Success in the manufacturing industry requires producing the right products, in the right quantities, at the right time, with good quality, and at a price the customer is willing to pay. The flexibility to respond to compliance standards and the ever-changing needs of customers, such as providing real-time visibility into global operations, is also imperative for success. Meeting these demands requires the ability to make quick decisions based on accurate data.

Microsoft Dynamics offers adaptable business solutions that work like and with familiar Microsoft software. They automate and improve financial, customer relationship, and supply-chain management.

Integrate collaboration and communication

• Deliver a single, real-time view of data from multiple facilities and departments
  
• Synchronize communication between engineering, manufacturing, and subcontractors
  
• Optimize planning to minimize inventory while meeting customer requirements
  
• Share information within your systems through the Web
  

Efficiently manage projects

• Provide an accurate overview of project status
  
• Track activities and resources at many levels of detail
  
• Leverage knowledge and content from existing or prior projects
  

Deliver superior customer service

• Gain a comprehensive view of customer information
  
• Eliminate isolated silos of information
  
• Create customer self-service opportunities
  
• Coordinate multichannel communications with customers
  
• Collaborate with customers on new product designs
  

Estimate and quote accurately

• Provide accurate quotations based on a real-time view into operations
  
• Align customer requirements with your capabilities
  
• Record customer requirements accurately
  

Provide flexible production planning

• Use data from the entire supply chain to respond effectively to changes and problems
  
• Access data through familiar desktop tools
  
• Support various manufacturing modes, such as engineer-to-order, make-to-order, make-to-stock, and mixed/hybrid

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Microsoft Dynamics NAV - Health Care Management Solutions

Why Microsoft Dynamics solutions for healthcare providers?

Delivering high-quality care may be the number one priority for healthcare providers, but reducing costs is always an imperative. The key to this is finding ways to streamline processes, eliminate inefficiency, increase productivity, and improve decision-making, thereby allowing physicians and staff to spend more time on patient-focused activities.

Expanding the use of information technology (IT) is a smart way to reduce costs, improve access to patient and organizational information, and simultaneously increase patient satisfaction. The powerful, integrated IT infrastructure provided by Microsoft Dynamics makes it easier to share patient information for clinical decisions and cross-organizational case coordination, as well as access the financial data required to drive business decisions. This solution enables physicians, nurses, and administrators to work together as a single team.

Streamline financial and human resource management

• Gain real-time access to funding and expenditure across multiple business units.
  
• Manage sensitive payroll information with greater control and security.
  
• Provide around the clock access to payer/patient information anywhere, on any device or browser.
  
• Increase staff productivity via automation of everyday tasks.
  

Increase patient satisfaction

• Coordinate delivery of patient care throughout the organization with easy access to all patient records.
  
• Develop more efficient and effective case management.
  
• Increase time spent on patient-focused activities.
  
• Deliver better coordinated outreach and educational activities that target specific communities or populations.
  

Comply with regulations

• Easily store, categorize, and search compliance documents.
  
• Ensure that managers have the necessary data and materials to maintain compliance.
  
• Implement intelligent Health Level Seven (HL7) messaging for international standards.
  

Microsoft Dynamics NAV for construction

Microsoft Dynamics NAV for construction

Microsoft Dynamics NAV provides integrated financial, supply chain, and customer relationship management (CRM) for small and midsize companies. Delivered through a global network of channel partners, this adaptable solution works with familiar Microsoft products such as Microsoft Office to streamline processes across an entire business.

A Microsoft Dynamics NAV solution centralizes your critical estimate, permit, sales, project management, labor, and financial information to help you better manage budgets, schedules, field activities, customer relationships, and the bottom line. And it's easy to customize, learn, and implement.

Project management

- Keep projects on track and running smoothly.

- Align people, information, and processes for greater productivity.

- Easily change project details at any point in the delivery cycle.

- Automate repetitive tasks such as labor tracking and payroll processing.

- Provide accurate estimates and job costing.

- Take timely corrective actions.

- Reduce errors.

Financial management

- Budget accurately.

- Control costs.

- Ensure that all options are properly charged.

- Efficiently code and route invoices for approvals and payment.

Customer service

- Provide around-the-clock service via the Internet.

- Differentiate your business from the competition.

- Provide fast, informed answers to customer questions.

- Update stakeholders on project status with Web portals.

Contract management

- Link customer options and selections with contracts.

- Create, track, and update contracts through change orders to project completion.

Communication

- Stay on top of changing circumstances.

- Make up-to-date information available to everyone.

- Use mobile devices to enter time, costs, and job status from the field.

- Protect sensitive information with RoleTailored security.

Analysis and planning

- Achieve insight.

- Capture trends.

- Respond quickly to new opportunities or shifts in the market.

- Guide business growth.

- Monitor key performance indicators (KPIs)

- Respond quickly to new opportunities or shifts in the market.

Why Microsoft Dynamics for construction?

Successful construction contractors have a reputation for delivering projects on time and on budget. Contractors who invest in the right financial and operational software execute projects more efficiently, deliver higher quality results to their customers, and at the same time increase their business profitability.

Microsoft Dynamics provides integrated, flexible systems that allow contractors to manage complex business processes without the burden of a large, expensive information technology (IT) infrastructure. These solutions assist you in reducing costs, while improving interactions with customers and suppliers, and in making faster, smarter decisions.

Manage projects more effectively

- Improve project management and decision-making through immediate access to financial and accounting information across the entire organization.

- Automate office operations, such as time and billing, to spend more time on value-added activities.

- Develop and enhance key business processes to increase productivity and profitability.

Streamline internal communications

- Improve communication between on-site personnel and the corporate office.

- Provide all stakeholders with common, up-to-date information.

- Increase collaboration with Web portals and shared project document libraries.

- Configure role-based views of relevant data so that employees can easily access critical information.

Improve customer relations

- Manage and track all customer-facing activities through multiple channels from project inception to completion.

- Access a unified view of customer information using a familiar desktop interface.

Industry-specific solutions for Microsoft Dynamics NAV

Industry-specific solutions for Microsoft Dynamics NAV

In addition to the powerful financial and process management tools at the core of Microsoft Dynamics NAV, there are vertical applications that extend it further to meet the specialized needs of your industry. Also, it's highly customizable to match the unique requirements of your company.

Microsoft and its partners have extensive experience working with organizations of all types and sizes. Together we deliver solutions tailored to all of the industries shown below.

Construction

Effective management of projects with multiple sites and customers for general contractors and homebuilders.

Consumer packaged goods (CPG)

Lower costs, higher customer satisfaction, and rapid response to changing retailer signals for CPG manufacturers and distributors.

Distribution

Drive down costs for distributing manufactured goods by integrating business and financial systems with the warehouse.

Food and beverage

Develop successful new products, meet retailer demands, and keep products safe.

Government

Efficient constituent service and information sharing for government agencies and social-service organizations.

Manufacturing

Streamline processes and minimize inventory-carrying costs for producing goods from raw materials.

Chemical

High tech and electronics

Industrial equipment

Specialty retail

Manage specialty retail products, processes, and relationships for greater profitability.

Enterprise Resource Plannig Software

Explore Microsoft Dynamics ERP

Help your people measure financial effectiveness, gain insight into business performance, and work better together

Successful companies need the right software to help them manage their financial accounting, supply chain, project accounting, field service, and human resources processes. Products that contain integrated business applications to automate and manage these processes are referred to as enterprise resource planning (ERP) solutions.

Products that contain integrated business applications to automate and manage these processes are referred to as enterprise resource planning (ERP) solutions.

A good ERP solution should help you:

Maintain control of your finances and manage them with a high level of efficiency.

Make complete, current financial information and reports available to anybody who needs that information to perform business planning.

Simplify and automate routine and repetitious functions so that your employees can focus on more critical tasks.

Create the required financial and other reporting that is needed to realize regulatory compliance.

Connect your entire supply chain in a productive, fast-moving flow to help streamline manufacturing and reduce inventory carrying costs.

Increase efficiencies in distribution to improve customer satisfaction and reduce the cost of doing business.

Fulfill the potential and increase the loyalty of your workforce while minimizing the cost and complexity of administering salaries, benefits, recruiting, and performance management.

Accomplish project goals and achieve outstanding results within budget, on time, and with excellent resource efficiency.

Look deeper into key performance factors—and pinpoint your most profitable customers, most efficient vendors, and potential issues within your organization that require swift action.

Meet the unique needs of your industry with specialized functionality tailored to your vertical industry business processes.

Why choose Microsoft Dynamics ERP?

Microsoft Dynamics ERP solutions can help you respond more rapidly to the changing business climate so that your people can make timely and informed decisions with increased confidence. Our partners build on the standard functionality in Microsoft Dynamics to deliver powerful industry solutions that meet industry-specific needs. Delivered through a network of channel partners providing specialized vertical services, these adaptable business solutions work like and with familiar Microsoft software to streamline processes across an entire business.

Your business can look forward to these capabilities with Microsoft Dynamics ERP solutions:

Business intelligence

Microsoft Dynamics offers effective business intelligence and reporting solutions that you can put to work immediately. They can let you look deeper into key performance factors to help pinpoint your most profitable customers, most efficient vendors, and potential issues within your organization that require swift action.

Collaboration

Collaboration capabilities available in Microsoft Dynamics solutions can make your company's offerings and key business functionality readily available to customers, employees, and business partners. Because both the portal and collaborative technology are activated in a smooth setup, you can offer site users a wealth of information and efficient, collaborative processes very quickly after implementing Microsoft Dynamics.

Executive management

The executive management capabilities in Microsoft Dynamics ERP solutions help you access all the information you need, including tasks, reports, and key performance indicators (KPIs), through a single intuitive dashboard. These executive dashboards provide a quick and effective way to gain business insight, helping you to monitor growth, compliance, and even environmental impact.

Financial planning and budgeting

Microsoft Dynamics offers financial planning, budgeting, and reporting applications that work with your enterprise resource planning (ERP) solution to help you measure business results, align performance to goals, and improve profitability.

Human resource management

Microsoft Dynamics human resource management software solutions can help you fulfill the potential and increase the loyalty of your workforce while minimizing the cost and complexity of administering salaries, benefits, recruiting, and performance management. Microsoft Dynamics solutions will help you empower your employees, boost administrative productivity, and design the best workforce for your business.

IT management

Microsoft Dynamics is designed with easy IT management, configuration, and development in mind, so the technology supports your business and empowers your people to perform even better. And as your business grows, you can adapt Microsoft Dynamics to meet your business and technology needs.

Project management

With a wide spectrum of tools and technologies, Microsoft solutions for project management give your people the tools they need to accomplish project goals and achieve outstanding results. Microsoft Dynamics project management solutions help you control costs and improve profitability, streamline project management, and achieve optimal productivity from your resources.

Supply chain management

Microsoft Dynamics offers extensible, familiar software for supply chain management (SCM) that can help reduce barriers to productivity and efficiency and help your organization deliver what customers need, when they need it. Microsoft Dynamics solutions provide your people with tools to enhance individual and team productivity, streamline operations, and collaborate effectively.

Software-plus-services

Software-plus-services, the Microsoft approach for the next generation of computing, is an industry shift that combines Internet services with client and server software to deliver more compelling opportunities and solutions.

A Complete ERP solution - Microsoft Dynamics NAV

Microsoft Dynamics NAV is a complete ERP solution with a difference

Simple. Smart. Innovative.

Since 1984, Microsoft Dynamics NAV has established itself as a choice for mid-sized organizations looking for a complete enterprise resource planning (ERP) solution that is fast to implement, easy to configure, and simple to use. Today, simplicity continues to beat at the heart of Microsoft Dynamics NAV. And its state-of-the-art functionality covers everything you need to run and grow a successful business. More than one million users have used Microsoft Dynamics NAV to simplify and streamline their highly specialized business processes—and today it is available in more than 42 country versions.

Microsoft Dynamics NAV provides companies and their people with industry specific functionality that’s relevant to the local needs of their regions of operation, even for the most highly specialized industries and organizations. Microsoft Dynamics NAV is easy to use and offers rapid adaptability and simplified customization enabling companies to easily add functionality, custom applications and online business capabilities. With Microsoft Dynamics NAV, employees can become more effective and the company more competitive.

One complete ERP solution

Microsoft Dynamics NAV collects your business’s functions into one integrated system. With close visual and functional ties to Microsoft Windows Vista and Microsoft Office, it’s easy to learn, simple to use, and quick to implement. With integrated financial, manufacturing, supply chain management, sales and marketing, project management, human resources, and services management information from across your organization stored in a centralized database, your people can work quickly and effectively—helping to drive your business forward.

Greater simplicity for greater productivity

In everyday life, it can be difficult to simplify and organize tasks, remove clutter, and put information where you can get to it easily and quickly. That’s exactly what the Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2009 RoleTailored User Experience does to your office workstation. It hides 90 percent of the features you don’t need to see. And it promotes the actions and information that you do need, leaving you with an uncluttered window and an overview of upcoming tasks—helping you prioritize your tasks, and keeping your work productive, stimulating, and fun.

RoleTailored home pages—called Role Centers—make it easy for people to view their work priorities and access the information and tasks they need for their specific job, not just anyone’s job. The result? An innovative solution that frees employees and business leaders to direct their talents and skills towards business success. Role Centers in Microsoft Dynamics NAV help people in job roles ranging from the president, to accounting manager, to sales manager, and to warehouse worker gain access to the full scope of the tasks, information, and reports they need in a single view.

Deep integration across Microsoft Dynamics NAV with familiar programs such as Microsoft Office Excel and Windows SharePoint Services makes it easy to communicate and collaborate effectively and share information—without having to juggle applications.

Making smart decisions

Microsoft Dynamics NAV enables every individual in your company to turn hunches into genuine insight, and insight into decisions. With access to real-time data and a wide range of analytical and reporting tools—including graphical displays, online analytical processing (OLAP) cubes, and Web-based delivery options—people can make informed, confident decisions that help drive business success.

Fast to implement, easy to configure, and simple to use

Meet changing business needs without disrupting your operations or your IT budget—and make the most of your current IT investments. Microsoft Dynamics NAV provides the flexibility to set up your system for today's business requirements, as well as a reliable platform for change and growth. Security features enable you to configure the system to control who can access what; built-in tools and the open architecture enable Microsoft partners to adapt the foundation to meet your specific needs—now and in the future. And the object-oriented development environment and compact source code simplifies system maintenance and connecting to other systems.

A Case Study - G4S Turkey : Global Security Services Solution for Microsoft Dynamics NAV by Pargesoft

G4S Turkey Saves up to 30 Person Days a Month with Business Management Tool

“Having replaced our largely manual systems with Microsoft Dynamics NAV, the company is saving between 25 and 30 person days a month in the accounting and invoicing of customers.”

Bora Tür, IT Director, G4S Turkey

Business Needs
G4S Turkey is a leading provider of security services to banks and businesses in Turkey with three principal lines of business—manned guarding, cash in transit, and monitoring automated security alarms. However, despite its excellent reputation for service delivery, business processes were largely manual, with timesheets and invoicing managed in spreadsheet software and locally acquired payroll and finance solutions. The company needed:

- A fully integrated business management system, including functions for contracts, billing, timesheet management, payroll, and finance modules.


- Automated processes for auditing and month-end reporting to satisfy service level agreement (SLA) pricing matrices at a lower cost and to provide better business intelligence to managers.


- More accurate and timely billing for customers to avoid disputes and improve client service and customer management relationships in a highly competitive industry.

Solution
Having considered solutions offered by SAP and Ramco Software, the company worked with Microsoft Partner Pargesoft due to its advocacy and experience of Microsoft Dynamics NAV business management software. Kaan Altunterim, Managing Director, Pargesoft, says: “We have experience in Microsoft Dynamics NAV going back to 2002, and offered enhanced business value to G4S, with  Add-ons that resulted in a robust solution and considerable cost savings. As a result, G4S is extending the solution to its entire global operation.”

- Timesheet application for projects that Pargesoft has fully integrated with payroll and finance at G4S Turkey.

- Rules-based automated billing solution aligned to SLAs with customers and SLA pricing matrices.

- Improvement of operational auditing and tracking through the timesheet entries solution.

Benefits
Bora Tür, IT Director, G4S Turkey, says: “Having replaced our largely manual systems with Microsoft Dynamics NAV, the company is saving between 25 and 30 person days a month in the accounting and invoicing of customers.”

- Microsoft Dynamics NAV is helping the cash in transit division to move towards a paperless office.

- By eliminating bottlenecks in the timesheet and invoice process, the solution has improved productivity and resulted in better client service through timely and accurate billing.

- Managers in the manned guarding division no longer use paper-driven processes for timesheet management and now have more time to spend improving customer services.

- Microsoft Dynamics NAV has been chosen as the principal enterprise resource planning option for the other 100 countries where the parent company operates.

Fast Facts

Customer                          : G4S Turkey
Web Site                           : www.g4s.com/tur/tr
Number of Employees       : 5,000
Country or Region             : Turkey
Industry                             : Professional services—Security services


Partner                              : Pargesoft
Web site                            : www.pargesoft.com


Customer Profile
G4S Turkey is a leading provider of security services for businesses and banks specialising in manned guarding, cash in transit, and automated security alarm monitoring.


Software and Services
• Microsoft Dynamics
     Microsoft Dynamics NAV

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Document published September 2009