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We’ve extended the core capabilities of Microsoft Dynamics 365 and Microsoft Dynamics AX to enable more extensive automation of your industry-specific business processes. From production to end customer.
- Advanced Customer Approval
- Advanced Vendor Management
- Automatic Production Control and Release
- Extended Production Handling
- Information Display for Batch Products
- Label Extension for Warehouse Management
- Product Data Management Extension
- Product Documentation Management
- Quality and Sample Management
- Shipping Packaging Management
- Vendor Quality Management
Advanced Customer Approval
Meet customer requirements automatically.
Competition is fierce, so it’s more important than ever to deliver goods that meet your customers’ high expectations around product quality, documentation, certifications, ingredients and subcontractors, as well as complying with national and international legislation. DXC Advanced Customer Approval helps you ensure that each production run and delivery meets the end customer’s needs and expectations. You can:
- Meet customers’ strict demands for individual production batches
- Maintain an overview of the entire value chain, from raw materials and subcontractors to finished shipments
- Document customer-specific criteria, so you can meet control requirements
- Support international operations through compliance with local legal requirements
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Advanced Vendor Management
Meet quality and policy requirements for purchased goods with advanced vendor approval and control features.
When margins are tight, deadlines are short and only the best quality will do, choosing the most suitable, most reliable vendors for critical product orders can present a challenge. An approved vendor list gives you advanced vendor approval and control features. This helps to ensure that the products you buy from approved vendors meet your expectations and are compliant with company policies around production, marketing, management and documentation. With DXC Advanced Vendor Management, you can:
- Optimize your processes for approval and selection of vendors
- Automate and simplify your purchasing process
- Document business terms with vendors in full
- Document the results of your vendor and manufacturer controls
- Follow company approval and audit policies more easily
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Automatic Production Control and Release
Release pallets and containers automatically on the basis of test results.
Automatic Production Control and Release capabilities enable automatic batch release based on quality testing of samples. For large-scale or bulk manufacturers, sequence control allows you to track and release specific containers from a manufactured batch on the basis of the results of your quality tests. You can also:
- Define product availability based on quality tests
- Control availability per batch or ID number (pallet or container)
- Use sequencing to check availability of a specific ID number based on samples and test results
- Automatically test certain containers again
Extended Production Handling
Manage mix pool production and campaign production with minimal waste.
Managing large volumes and continuous production flows requires careful and dynamic control of the production process. Extended production handling creates a framework for advanced control of mixed pool production and campaign production processes. With DXC Extended Production Handling, you can:
- Produce batches of varying sizes on a continuous basis based on your production equipment capacity
- Combine batch orders to produce bulk items and packaged items
- Control quality and release procedures for individual ID numbers
- Back-flush and “report as finished” automatically from multiple stages in production
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Information Display for Batch Products
Make informed purchasing, sales and consumption decisions for batch products.
When working with batch-controlled production processes, decisions regarding purchasing, sales and consumption of goods need to be based on detailed information about the batches in question. With DXC Information Display for Batch Products, you can see standard batch values and batch attribute values from multiple batches in a single overview. You save time and resources, and enable more informed business decisions. You can:
- See consolidated information from multiple batches in a single view
- Define the information that is shown for individual products and groups of products
- Make informed decisions about which goods you sell and consume
- Support typical roles and business processes and boost individual productivity
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Label Extension for Warehouse Management
Optimize your label design with access to master batch data.
DXC Label Extension for Warehouse Management helps you optimize your label design by retrieving batch data from multiple data sources and previewing labels containing real ERP data. This allows you to quickly check the layout and content of all the labels created in your business system. You can search for specific labels and preview them in a clear, easy-to-read layout. The solution works seamlessly with Microsoft Dynamics 365 and offers:
- Easy access to batch data using familiar document routing interfaces
- Accurate data by referencing batch data from your business system
- Label preview and display – see the layout as you design and view finished labels
- Flexible label design reduces the number of label layouts you need to make
- Seamless integration with all your batch data and the entire label design process
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Product Data Management Extension
With tight deadlines, narrow margins and increasing customer expectations, effective product data management processes can make the difference between project success and failure.
DXC Product Data Management Extension introduces a range of enhanced capabilities across product lifecycle management, BOM and formula management and customer fulfilment processes to enable daily process efficiencies that give you the competitive edge you need to serve customers better and safeguard profitability. You can:
- Save time and resources with advanced product data management capabilities
- Ensure that products can only be purchased, handled and sold based on pre-defined lifecycle rules
- Support common lifecycle states as well as your unique lifecycle needs
- Save time and reduce errors when maintaining BOMs and formulas
- Simplify visualization and comparison of complex BOM and formula structures
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Product Documentation Management
Creating and maintaining all the documents needed to support your products and processes and meet the requirements of customers, vendors and authorities is a time-consuming task. It’s also difficult to give staff a complete overview of documents, files and notes in the system. DXC Product Documentation Management makes both tasks easier. You can create and print standardized product and batch documents from Dynamics 365 and provide users with an overview of the documentation produced or attached in the system for a specific record in your data structure. The solution works seamlessly with Microsoft Dynamics 365 and offers: Dynamically create product documentation and get a full overview of all documentation.
- Faster and easier creation of datasheets and certificates (BCOA, BCOC)
- Document content generation based on the customer and destination country
- Documentation in supported system languages
- Documents can be created, approved and printed directly from sales order lines
- Access to documentation from the entire data structure from a single viewing location
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Quality and Sample Management
In a continuous production environment, the fast and accurate release of high-quality finished materials is a critical process.
DXC Quality and Sample Management extends standard Microsoft Dynamics 365 capabilities with advanced logic that controls the creation, registration, testing and handling of samples from batches and license plates, and the automatic release or blocking of products based on test results taken during the production process. You can:
- Enable a continuous high-volume production flow
- Enable faster, more flexible quality processes with hand-held devices
- Avoid resource issues and delays with forecasting and planned quality work
- Reduce waste with accurate yield calculations for ingredients and semi-finished goods
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Shipping Package Management
Faster and easier management of your packaging needs.
Packaging materials often have an intrinsic value for your business or for your business partners. Registering and tracking the quantity, value and location of packaging is a time-consuming and error-prone process that can reduce the efficiency of your warehouse and logistics operations. DXC Shipping Packaging Management will help optimize your packaging processes and meet flexible packaging needs. You can:
- Manage both disposable and recyclable packaging
- Track packaging in-house and at customers’ premises
- Register inbound and outbound packaging
- Include the cost of packaging directly on invoices
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Vendor Quality Management
To meet today’s growing demands for traceability and sustainability, you must continuously monitor and document the quality of the goods your vendors supply.
But quality control and quality assurance processes are costly and time consuming. So being able to focus quality activities on specific vendors and products - based on vendor approval processes and audit results - will help you make best use of your resources and budget. With DXC Vendor Quality Management, you can:
- Reduce the budget and resources you use on quality-related activities
- Mitigate risks by combining quality practices with vendor approval and audit frameworks
- Meet customer demand for quality, traceability and transparency
- Build long-term, productive partner relationships
- Make more accurate forecasts of your quality resource needs and costs
- Enable simpler, more flexible quality processes for warehouse staff
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Erik Beck Skyum
Account Director