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Customer demands for fast deliveries and ever lower costs, coupled with increasingly difficult government regulations, place many new and unique challenges on chemical manufacturers. Add to that a continual need for innovative product formulas and recipes and ever-changing packaging variations—and the result is escalating complexity in all areas of the business, including development, purchasing, manufacturing, distribution, and sales.
These market pressures require chemical manufacturers to find new ways to streamline every aspect of their business operations, including successfully maintaining many complex formulas and recipes, complying with regulatory and customer mandates, and managing a wealth of compound-specific characteristics such as shelf life, potencies, and unit-of-measure conversions. In addition, ongoing operational and inventory challenges require closer interaction between research and development (R&D) labs, procurement, production, and marketing.
Microsoft Dynamics business software provides powerful and flexible manufacturing, financial, and customer relationship management (CRM) solutions that support recipe management and efficient demand planning – making it the ideal system to help you meet these challenges. Microsoft and its partners deliver systems that can help you shrink development cycles, respond quickly to customer trends, and comply with changing regulations.
With the right technology in place, you can run your business in ways that can help improve operations, open visibility into the supply chain, and increase your competitiveness—worldwide.
BENEFITS: Microsoft Dynamics solutions for chemical manufacturers
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Recipe and formula management
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Customer and supply chain visibility
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Yield planning and tracking
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Co-product/by-product management
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Batch optimisation and balancing
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Detailed product cost analysis
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Dynamic formula adjustment
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Customisable item and dimensionality structure
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Centralised quality control regulation
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Integrated radio frequency identification (RFID) adoption
Microsoft Dynamics can help your chemical manufacturing company:
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Manage formulas and inventory better: Complex product formulas and/or recipes can change frequently to reflect variations in material supply, product packaging, manufacturing processes, raw material characteristics, and product development. A flexible information system such as one based on Microsoft Dynamics and partner solutions can help you move beyond the manual records and spreadsheets often encountered in production and R&D labs to integrate ...(read the full article here)
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Track production, quality, and compliance: Compliance with increasingly complex regulatory and customer mandates requires chemical manufacturers to manage and quickly pinpoint production, raw material, and source information amid a sea of details...(read the full article here)
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Connect and automate for greater efficiency: Manual processes meant to overcome disconnected production, laboratory, customer, order entry, procurement, and financial systems can slow product development and production cycles. Using built-in integration capabilities and Web services, Microsoft Dynamics can help you connect internal systems and extend appropriate information to your customers and suppliers. As a result, you can ...(read the full article here)
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Give people the information they need to succeed: From laboratory technicians to the sales team, people across your organisation need access to different types of product, process, production, and customer information. Providing centralised access to reliable and up-to-date information can help ...(read the full article here)
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