Building Resilience in the Manufacturing Industry with Dynamics 365

The fast-growing consumer market has increased demand for goods, requiring manufacturing to accelerate to meet that demand. This high demand cannot be met through traditional modes. Manufacturing industries must take a step up by embracing the recent market trends. The hustle from raw material management to finished goods is a tiring process but pivotal as your whole organization is based on the capital you generate from those goods. This uncertainty could be eliminated through digitalization. It enables you with cost and time optimization by optimizing resource management, driving innovation, and streamlining daily work orders and operations.

Manufacturing Execution Systems (MES) are adopted swiftly by organizations for this purpose. The increase in market size is expected to reach 26 billion USD by 2028 compared to 11.87 billion USD in 2020. An MES provides information about what is happening, what needs to be done, and how it must be done. It manages your manufacturing precisely from scheduling to work order, Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE), and downtime tracking.

Microsoft Dynamics 365 as an integrated and sophisticated ERP solution enables digital transformation in all industries, across all verticals. Its tailor-made features target the pain point of industrialists to bring an integrated solution that strengthens the respective sectors. Dynamics 365 for Manufacturing harnessed with abilities of Artificial Intelligence streamlines workflow, optimizes resources, and improves efficiency. When these abilities converge with an MES, it does wonders.

Let us navigate the challenges faced in manufacturing industries and how manufacturing execution in Dynamics 365 is a win-win solution.

Challenges Faced by Conventional Manufacturing Industry

Manufacturing began as soon as the human race started on the planet. The earliest record of manufacturing is the tool made with stones. Since then, this industry flourished, improved, and evolved. New methods and machinery came into use to improve the quality and quantity of production leading into this century where next-generation technology and solutions waited to take over the conventional methods. The traditional methods no doubt met the market requirements but there were some challenges which hindered their way to be the best approach. Some of these challenges are:

• Embracing the Pace of Technological Shift: Adapting to a modern technology is one of the challenges of the manufacturing industry. Advanced technology requires training, resources, and time to adjust to an environment. Sometimes there is resistance from the culture or the lack of operational ability to foster this change in the factory makes it a hard choice.
• Poor Planning and Manpower Utilization: The inability to utilize your biggest asset, humans as a resource, is a loophole in any organization. Due to improper work or scheduling you will be wasting time and money because even with the required number of skilled laborers, if they do not have a sense of direction or duty rosters, it is of no use.
• Material Wastage: The drawback of manual manufacturing is the lack of precision. The inability to determine what resource or material good is required in what amount and where, will be a total disaster for capital and may cause turbulence in the fiscal management of your organization.
• Manual Record Maintenance: In this data-driven world, maintaining and updating your records accurately and efficiently is pivotal. A small mistake or an error can put your business at stake. However, this is a common issue faced if your administration is still relying on papers and registers to keep records and do calculations with a calculator.
• Inefficient Inventory Management: as a manufacturer, you need to have a clear statistic of the total capacity of your inventory, the goods stocked in the warehouse already, and what is required to meet the expected upcoming demands. Inefficient warehouse management results in the inability to meet customer demand, giving you a huge loss.

Unleashing Excellence in Dynamics 365 with Manufacturing Execution

Microsoft Dynamics 365 as an integrated business suite, combining the functionalities of CRM and ERP, is leveraged with Artificial Intelligence to connect people across your organization and enhance efficiency. The best feature of Dynamics 365 is the customizability, flexibility, and scalability to meet the industry’s requirements and your growing organization. Particularly in the manufacturing industry, it is necessary to keep track of all operations and streamline them to maximize productivity. A Manufacturing Execution System is a go-to preference of manufacturers to optimize the manufacturing and supply chain of your industry. However, supercharging it with the ability of Dynamics 365 can turn the tables for you. Here is how this convergence can deliver exceptional and unexpected results.

Holistic View of Production Process

In the manufacturing industry, monitoring all the processes is mandatory to achieve the end goal. Integration of MES and Dynamics 365 allows you to gain end-to-end visibility through the entire process ranging from the division of labor, workforce utilization, work order, material good maintenance, and procedures and guides through which the operations must be performed. All this through a unified digital system that is accessible anywhere, anytime.

Quality Assurance and Compliance

Within Dynamics 365 Manufacturing, you can monitor and control the quality of goods, raw materials, and the equipment you are using. That is where Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) is also measured and maintained. When the maintenance and quality control are centralized and monitored, with IoT it gets easy to identify any issue, assess the workflow, and sort it out without any delay. It helps you to minimize the risks or quality compromises that may arise in your product otherwise. Also, it ensures that the operations abide by the regulatory & legal compliances and general market standards for the product you are manufacturing.

Work Order Management and Scheduling

One of the most important tasks is to schedule what work needs to be done and who can do that work more effectively. The automation and AI enable Dynamics 365 to allow you to maintain work orders effectively based on the availability of the workforce. This will enable you to maximize your productivity and use your resources effectively. Neither your resources nor your time goes in vain.

Optimized Process Management

Managing the workflow is as essential as any other task in every industry. From sourcing raw materials to delivering the consignment, from inventory to supply chain, everything should be streamlined to maximize efficacy. D365 in MES allows you to monitor inventory, keep a record of available goods, and forecast the need for new stock based on the expected demand as well as inventory capacity. It seamlessly unifies your operations and gives you visibility and insight into procurement, production, logistics, sales, etc.

Dynamics Solution and Technology: Your Trusted Implementation Partner

Microsoft Cloud for industries are solutions that integrate with your specific industry to provide a customizable solution according to your needs. Dynamics 365 Manufacturing levels up your manufacturing industry and drives growth and agility with automation, full integration, and intelligence.

Dynamics Solution and Technology will help you to implement a complete package for your industry which will centralize and streamline all your operations from the factory to the store front. But why us? As Gold and Solution Partner of Microsoft and having an expert team with 100+ years of collective experience, we have been helping businesses transform themselves and implement digital solutions for their organizations. The success stories of clients in the Gulf, Mena region, and European countries are testimonials of our work.

So, what are you thinking about? Schedule your demo with us today and have an insight into how we equip your manufacturing industry to meet the new horizons of success.