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With Microsoft Dynamics™ and the NAV Automotive Alliance you get a powerful, flexible solution designed exclusively for automotive suppliers like you. This means you benefit from:
Lean, efficient operations managment: Microsoft Dynamics™ NAV solutions and the NAV Automotive Alliance can help you streamline operations by integrating lean manufacturing processes into your business systems. These processes reach all the way back to your suppliers, reducing manual steps and giving your employees the real-time visibility they need to make rapid, informed decisions.
Smooth supply-chain operations: With Microsoft Dynamics™ NAV, your employees can use the desktop tools they know and understand to gain visiblity into customer demand. That means your operations people and suppliers can anticipate supply-chain problems before they arise allowing you to run your business based on customer demand.
Streamlined engineering: Microsoft Dynamics™ NAV collaboration tools help your designs flow more easily into manufacturing and procurement, helping you beat today's increasingly aggresive new-product development timelines.
Responsiveness to market demands: Microsoft Dynamics™ NAV provides you with ready access to the information you need to quickly bring new and updated products to market.
Microsoft Dynamics™ NAV is a business management solution for small and mid-sized organizations that helps you simplify and streamline your highly specialized business processes, rapidly adapting to the unique way you do business. Microsoft Dynamics™ NAV provides you and your people with industry specific functionality that’s relevant to the local needs of your regions of operation, even for the most highly specialized industries and organizations. Through the rapid adaptability, simplified customization, and ease of use offered by Microsoft Dynamics™ NAV, you can easily add functionality, custom applications, and online business capabilities. Microsoft Dynamics™ NAV enables your people be effective and your business to be competitive.
Microsoft Dynamics NAV addresses the following business needs:
AutoNAV™, powered by Microsoft Dynamics™ NAV, is suited for Automotive and Repetitive Manufacturing. It is a complete manufacturing execution system that is designed to meet the unique challenges facing Automotive manufacturers.
Features:
Cost Tracking
Need to know your true manufacturing costs? Want to use Standard Costs, but need to know the actual costs due to swings in raw material costs. This is available through the Product Cost History that tracks standard and actual costs by period along the corresponding sales.
Tooling Amortization
Once your products have completed PPAP, you need to recover your initial tooling investment. The Tooling Amortization manages this based on your actual production output.
Tooling Inventory and BOMs
Tooling management is a key part of the manufacturing process. You are able to create a Tooling Bill of Material for each product that you make. This allows you to plan and control your tooling.
Tool MRP
Utilizing the Microsoft Dynamics planning engine you are able to plan the replenishment of your tools and maintain the appropriate safety stocks. This becomes a closed loop system with the use of the Tool Accuracy funcationality.
Tool Usage Continuous Improvement
Use the Tool Data Worksheet to manage tool life as it fluctuates over time. This is used to improve the accuracy of the tool consumption.
Constrained Resource Planning
Manage for factory schedules by focusing on your constrained resources. This allows you to manage these resources and automatically adjust the supporting operations.
Container Tracking
Manage the movement of materials using serialized containers or bins. This allows you to track the containers and share the information with your sub-contractors.
Lot No. and Heat No. Tracking
Track the lot numbers for all of your products, tools, and raw materials. Additionally, the raw material heat number is included with finished products for easy tracking.
Obsolescence Management
Control your planning process based on the Obsolescence Date for the product. This will flag any affected planned production orders and require them to be approved within the Obsolescence window. Related Tools and raw materials will also be flagged and require approval during the Obsolescence window. The process is completed by notifying your vendors of the upcoming changes in demand for the raw material.
Vendor Releases
Manage your vendors and purchases through Blanket Purchase Orders. The results of the MRP process are used to create the releases for each vendor. The vendor releases include additional information about the demand for the raw material. If the raw material is used to only make a product that is becoming obsolete, then additional information is supplied with the release.
Sub Contractor Management
Only approved sub contractors can be included on the Routing for a product. This also, allows the sub contractor prices to be tightly controlled. Detailed specifications by item and operation allow you to explicitly state what needs to be done by the sub contractor.
Item Status
Know where each production order is in its production cycle plus scrap and quarantine. This provides a real time view of your production status.
Sales – Surcharge Management
Manage surcharges by customer and item.
Sales – Price Management
Manage the pricing and have the system automatically implement and log all of the changes.
When EDI, Demand Smoothing, and Bar Code Labels are required - AutoSys® is a set of tools that meet these requirements. AutoSys® has been utilized for over 20 years and responds to all of the automotive industry EDI demands; servicing one primary market - parts suppliers. With pre-defined trading partner definitions and transaction sets already mapped; the implementation is quick and efficient.
Included Applications:
Bar Code Labels
Release Accounting Orders
Shipping and Bar Coded Shippers
Inventory Control
EDI Base
Add-On:
EDI Trading Partner Transaction Sets—over 150 trading partners including GM, Ford, DaimlerChrysler, Toyota and Honda.
Key Benefits
Handles all transaction sets required by automotive and non-automotive trading partners and repetitive manufacturers
EDI fully integrated with Release Accounting, Shipping, Scheduling and MRP/CRP
Complies to customer needs for electronic material releases and advanced shipping notifications thus meeting customer requirements for order processing, therefore improving customer service
Allows for receipt and transmittal of transaction sets to be auto-scheduled, thus freeing up the operator to do multiple tasks
Meets customer requirements for order processing, therefore improving customer service
Compares supplier cum and customer cum as a basis of creating firm and planned finished goods then passes this demand on to Production Scheduling for planning material and capacity needs
Records shipments entered via the Shipping application in the Release Accounting shipment history files for accumulative shipment reconciliation
Creates Advanced Shipment Notifications (ASNs) automatically via the shipper entry, which comply with industry standard requirements
Ship code logic identifies days of the week that a particular item should be shipped to a particular destination, eliminating release interpretation of when to ship