ELECTRONICS MANUFACTURER
Upgrade to dynamics 365
This company sell, assemble and distribute a wide range of circuit breakers, relays and power management solutions across a wide range of markets including most sectors of mobility and transport, manufacturing, telecoms and medical devices.
Challenge
This manufacturer was using Microsoft Dynamics AX and were keen to upgrade to Microsoft Dynamics 365 in the Cloud and adopt new more standard ways of working. With AX becoming unsupported, they wanted to upgrade to keep their business operations running securely.
They needed a system that would enable them to manage their full product range and enable them to efficiently manage their operations across 61 countries.
They wanted to reduce their inventory and wastage, improve their packing efficiency and reduce the lead times to their customers.
Solution
The scope of the solution included: Finance, Supply Chain, Production, Inventory and Warehouse management.
The deployment of the finance application included:
MTD (Making Tax Digital), providing a standard approach.
Improvements and transitioning trading document designs to Microsoft Dynamics 365.
Intercompany operations such as a link to a company used to store a large number of components.
Migration of significant quantities of data to enable trading to continue seamlessly.
Results
The company were confident all of their challenges were solved, and they could now deliver more product, for less cost and faster for their customers.
Inventory was reduced by 33%.
Delivery performance improved from 73% on time to 88% on time with further improvement expected.
Order accuracy improved to 98.8%.