Microsoft Dynamics für die Medien- und Unterhaltungsbranche

Immer am Puls der Zeit – mit den Branchenlösungen von Microsoft Dynamics für die Medien- und Unterhaltungsbranche

Der Siegeszug des Internets hat die Medienbranche nachhaltig verändert: In Medien, Unterhaltung und Kultur hat die Digitalisierung von Inhalten neue Märkte hervorgebracht, und zu bekannten Formaten sind neue hinzugetreten, z. B. die Vielzahl von Onlineportalen und Blogs. Aller bisherigen Schwarzmalerei zum Trotz kann von einem Untergang der klassischen Medien keine Rede sein. Ganz im Gegenteil: Heute existieren ähnliche Informationsangebote nebeneinander auf unterschiedlichen Kanälen, die alle ganz eigene Marktchancen und Umsatzpotenziale bieten. Hier auf unseren Internetseiten für die Medien- und Unterhaltungsbranche finden Sie praxisorientierte Informationen zu Markttrends und technischen Entwicklungen sowie Branchenlösungen von Microsoft Dynamics-Partnern.

Mit Branchenlösungen von Microsoft Dynamics decken Sie die Geschäftsanforderungen Ihres Unternehmens in der Medien- und Unterhaltungsbranche ab. Ihre besonderen Vorteile: Sie erhalten eine maßgeschneiderte Software und profitieren von dem Know-how unserer Partner, die sich auf Ihre Branche spezialisiert haben.

Mehrfachverwertung von Content: Wie sich mit denselben Ressourcen mehr Gewinn erwirtschaften lässt

Ein Buch ist mehr als nur ein Buch. Ein Artikel ist mehr als nur ein Artikel. Beide Produkte stellen im Grunde genommen lediglich verschiedene Formen der Verwertung dar. Die Ressource eines Verlags ist deshalb nicht das Buch oder der Artikel. Grundmaterial ist der Inhalt oder neudeutsch Content. Es ist die Aufgabe der Verlage zu entscheiden, welches Produkt aus dem „eingekauften“ Inhalt entstehen soll.

Den vielschichtigen Wert der Ressource Content haben viele Medienunternehmen in den vergangenen Jahren erkannt. Konsequenterweise setzen sie deshalb auf die Mehrfachverwertung und verbessern somit ihre Wertschöpfung. Konzentrierten sich Buchverlage früher nur auf die Vermarktung von Büchern, setzen viele den Inhalt heute neu in Form von Hörbüchern um und erschließen sich damit einen neuen Markt. Fachverlage publizieren Artikel nicht mehr nur in einer Zeitschrift, sondern setzen auf eine Zweitverwertung in anderen verlagsinternen Magazinen oder komponieren aus bereits veröffentlichten Inhalten Dossiers und Themenhefte. Nicht zuletzt spielt die Veröffentlichung von Inhalten wie Nachrichten, Artikel oder Bücher als E-Books im Internet eine zunehmend wichtige Rolle.

Dabei geht es nicht nur um den Verkauf von Content an Endkonsumenten, sondern auch um den Handel zwischen Unternehmen. So stellten Mitarbeiter des Beratungsunternehmens PricewaterhouseCoopers schon 2001 in einer Untersuchung fest, dass Medienunternehmen, die sich an diesem Geschäftsmodell des B2B-Handels (Business to Business) nicht beteiligen, „in Zukunft empfindliche Rückgänge bei den Umsatzerlösen verzeichnen werden“. Ohne IT-gestützte Verwaltung und Erfassung der Inhalte und Arbeitsprozesse kann die Verlags- und Medienwelt die sich bietenden Möglichkeiten nicht oder nur rudimentär nutzen. „Klassische Medienunternehmen […] müssen ihre Produktionsabläufe von Grund auf umstellen“, schrieben die Marktforscher von PricewaterhouseCoopers den Verlagen ins Stammbuch.

Content und Unternehmenswerte gemeinsam managen

Die Unterstützung durch Content-Management-Systeme zur Katalogisierung, Verwaltung und Bearbeitung von Inhalten sowie ein System zum Management von Urheber- und Verwertungsrechten sind nur Teilaspekte dieser angemahnten Umstellung. „Um Content profitabel mehrfach zu verwerten, muss man die betreffenden Kosten ermitteln und die erbrachten Leistungen auch berechnen können“, gibt Knut Nicholas Krause, Geschäftsführer der knk Business Software AG, zu bedenken. Sein Unternehmen vertreibt eine auf das Verlags- und Medienwesen zugeschnittene Branchenlösung auf Basis von Microsoft Dynamics. „Nur wenn das verwendete ERP-System verschiedene Verwertungsformen abrechnen kann, realisieren die Verantwortlichen die Chancen, die sich aus einer Weiterverwertung der vorliegenden Inhalte ergeben und bauen neue Geschäftsmodelle auf“, sagt Krause. „Haben die Verlage oder Medienhäuser kein automatisiertes System, das die Kosten des redaktionellen Einkaufs und der Content-‚Schöpfung‘ erfasst und das alle Vermarktungswege unterstützt, müssen sie die Kosten und Erlöse nachträglich von Hand berechnen. Das ist umständlich und führt oftmals zu Fehlkalkulationen, aber auch zu Widerständen bei den damit belasteten Mitarbeitern. Dann kann Mehrfachverwertung – statt Zusatzeinnahmen zu erschließen – schnell unprofitabel werden.“

Im Idealfall setzen die Contentanbieter auf eine kombinierte Lösung aus Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) und einem Content-Management-System (CMS). Das Content-Management-System erlaubt die schnelle und effiziente Umwandlung der Inhalte in das benötigte Format, die dabei stets an einer einzigen Stelle gespeichert werden. Das ERP-System ermittelt nicht nur die genauen angefallenen Kosten und Erlöse für die Inhalte und erstellt die zugehörigen Nachfragebilanzen, sondern liefert auch weitere professionelle Werkzeuge für die Vermarktung, z. B. Funktionen für Customer Relationship Management (CRM).

Auch kleinere Verlage, die sich ein CMS nicht leisten können, sollten nicht auf ein ERP-System verzichten. „Nur mit einem ERP-System kann man auch Marktnischen erschließen, weil man damit jederzeit weiß, was das kostet und wo und wie Gewinne entstehen“, resümiert knk-Geschäftsführer Krause.

 

www.pargesoft.com Microsoft Dynamics ERP Global Partner

Microsoft Dynamics AX 2009 - Panoramica

Microsoft Dynamics AX 2009 è una soluzione di gestione aziendale integrata e flessibile, in grado di agevolare i processi decisionali nelle organizzazioni di medie e grandi dimensioni.

Fondato su basi tecnologicamente avanzate e di provata efficacia, Microsoft Dynamics AX presenta unfunzionamento analogo a quello di software Microsoft già noto agli utenti come Microsoft Office System, con cui è completamente integrato. Assicura pertanto una curva di apprendimento estremamente ridotta che consente al personale di essere immediatamente operativo e di concentrarsi sugli obiettivi aziendali.

Con l’automazione e la semplificazione delle attività finanziarie, delle relazioni con i clienti e dei processi della supply chain, Microsoft Dynamics AX unisce persone, processi e informazioni, indipendentemente dalla loro posizione, accrescendo la produttività, l’efficienza e consentendo ai dipendenti di guidare l’azienda al successo.

Aiuta le persone a lavorare meglio

Nel mondo degli affari, la produttività e l'efficacia del singolo influiscono direttamente sui profitti. Fornisci ai collaboratori strumenti familiari e semplici che consentono di lavorare efficacemente e prendere decisioni con quella celerità che l’impresa moderna richiede.

• Consenti al personale di concentrarsi sulle attività di business, piuttosto che sull'apprendimento delle nuove applicazioni, con una soluzione che richiama come interfaccia e funzioni l'esperienza utente degli altri prodotti Microsoft.

• Lavora in modo efficace con il Role Center, un'interfaccia utente ottimizzata in base ai ruoli aziendali che aiuta i collaboratori a organizzare, assegnare priorità e accedere ad attività e informazioni, tutto da un'unica finestra.

• Espandi le capacità decisionali con strumenti automatici di Business Intelligence e reporting, che aiutano il personale ad analizzare i dati attraverso indicatori KPI dashboard, Microsoft Office Excel, Business Analytics in Microsoft Dynamics AX e Microsoft Office PerformancePoint Server 2007.

• Consenti ai collaboratori di interagire con i dati e le informazioni presenti in Microsoft Dynamics AX,direttamente dalle applicazioni di Microsoft Office.

• Facilita la comunicazione con dipendenti, clienti e partner, utilizzando strumenti di comunicazione e collaborazione grazie all'integrazione con Microsoft Unified Communications.

L'interfaccia utente rende Microsoft Dynamics AX semplice da usare: i centri gestione ruolo aiutano i collaboratori ad assegnare le priorità al proprio lavoro e acquisire una migliore comprensione delle informazioni rilevanti.

Trasforma i cambiamenti in opportunità

Per tenere il passo della concorrenza, le aziende sono chiamate a espandersi in nuovi paesi, a lanciare nuovi prodotti e servizi e potenziare i punti di forza dell'attività attraverso fusioni e acquisizioni. Con Microsoft Dynamics AX, è possibile gestire con successo la crescita e il cambiamento, creando rapporti redditizi all'interno della supply chain e adattando rapidamente i processi interni per rispondere ai cambiamenti della domanda.

• Microsoft Dynamics AX offre un'architettura orientata ai servizi, stretta integrazione con le tecnologie Microsoft e Web Services in grado di supportare scenari commerciali complessi tipicamente gestiti da aziende che operano in contesti internazionali.

• Automatizza la collaborazione all’interno della supply chain e lo scambio di documenti con i diversi partner grazie a Microsoft BizTalk Server e a Microsoft Office.

• Crea e modifica rapidamente flussi di lavoro personalizzati per trarre vantaggio da nuove opportunità e adattarsi velocemente ai requisiti del settore e dei clienti, in costante cambiamento.

• Adatta la soluzione alle modalità di lavoro dell'azienda (non il contrario)

• Soddisfa esigenze altamente specializzate tipiche del tuo settore con Microsoft Dynamics AX Industry Solutions (in inglese) o o soluzioni ad hoc realizzate dai Partner Microsoft Dynamics.

• Grazie ad un sistema di licensing (in inglese) flessibile puoi scegliere il package più adatto alle tue esigenze attuali e aggiungere nuove funzionalità nel tempo.

• Capitalizza gli investimenti attuali in servizi e tecnologia Microsoft per contribuire a garantire un ridotto time-to-benefit.

Mettiti in gioco, a livello mondiale

Oggi per gestire un business globale o l'espansione oltre i confini nazionali verso nuove sedi o succursali, le opportunità commerciali possono comportare un allargamento della base clienti.
Microsoft Dynamics AX è progettato per gestire la complessità di un'azienda globale consolidando e standardizzando i processi e fornendo visibilità nell'intera organizzazione.

• Semplifica l'espansione oltre i confini nazionali grazie alle specifiche localizzazioni, che consentono di utilizzare più lingue e valute e la conformità ai requisiti normativi locali per oltre 36 paesi.

• Consolida i dati finanziari, operativi e dei clienti a livello di gruppo sia per costruire un vantaggio strategico che per migliorare i rapporti con clienti, partner e fornitori.

• Uniforma gli standard per contribuire a garantire la qualità centralizzando i processi, condividendo le inziative di successo e ampliando la gestione della supply chain a più sedi e divisioni.

• Gestisci e controlla le KPI globali e locali con strumenti di reporting e analisi sofisticati e intuitivi. Combina la soluzione con applicazioni di Business Intelligence per potenziare le capacità analitiche essenziali a gestire un ambiente aziendale complesso.

• Fornisci al personale accesso in tempo reale a indicatori KPI, scorecard e dati attraverso l'Enterprise Portal in Microsoft Dynamics AX. E con PerformancePoint Server o Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007, i responsabili delle decisioni chiave possono lavorare con informazioni critiche, senza effettuare l'accesso a Microsoft Dynamics AX.

• Gestisci il deployment in modo efficiente e uniforme con Microsoft Dynamics Sure Step, una metodologia standard e globale che semplifica i processi di implementazione e aggiornamento.

 

Garantisci il rispetto delle regole

Le aziende devono adempiere a una miriade di requisiti normativi che variano notevolmente a seconda del paese e della regione. Microsoft Dynamics AX può contribuire a ridurre il rischio e le responsabilità legate alla corporate governance, alla conformità normativa e alle iniziative per clienti.

• Risparmia tempo e fatica con procedure che attuano e potenziano i controlli sulla base di scenari specifici di rischio e conformità

• Aiuta a garantire il rispetto delle policy con processi standardizzati e ripetibili, in grado di aggregare in modo affidabile i dati sulla conformità.

• Trasforma i cambiamenti in opportunità, supportando iniziative per clienti (comprese strategie ecologiche e di catena logistica RFID) con funzionalità che riducono gli scarti di produzione e promuovono la sostenibilità ambientale

• Centralizza e condividi la corporate governance con il Compliance Center, uno strumento integrato per la gestione delle policy, documenti di processo e reporting.

• Mantieni uno stretto controllo sulle attività con strumenti di business intelligence che monitorano le modifiche interne, per rispondere rapidamente alle richieste di informazioni specifiche

• Riduci i costi e l'incertezza nella protezione dei dati aziendali. Utilizza le funzionalità di protezione integrate in Microsoft Dynamics AX nell'infrastruttura IT dell'azienda

www.pargesoft.com Microsoft Dynamics AX Global Partner

Microsoft Dynamics NAV - RFI Global Services

See how British firm RFI Global Services uses Microsoft Dynamics NAV to cover operations all over the globe and become more efficient.



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Microsoft Business Intelligence

Business Intelligence for Your Role

Microsoft Business Intelligence solutions build on your existing technology investments to help employees gain access to accurate, up-to-date information for better, more relevant decisionmaking.

Through role-based dashboards that work within the familiar, easy-to-use Microsoft Office environment, people get the information they need, when they need it – reducing training time, increasing productivity, and improving profitability across the enterprise.

Improve Performance Management

Microsoft Business Intelligence solutions allow you to leverage your existing technology investments to enable your IT staff to gain insight beyond the event logs and performance counters – helping staff identify root causes behind events and make course corrections that improve performance.

Microsoft Business Intelligence empowers IT staff to:

- Go beyond canned operational reports with integrated, interactive performance dashboards, comprehensive scorecards, and powerful analytics all built on Microsoft platform components.

- Aggregate seemingly disparate metrics into a single overall performance scorecard.

- With Managed self-service Business Intelligence, empower users to create their own ad-hoc reports using familiar, easy-to-use tools they already know.

- Identify patterns and exceptions with data trending.

- Understand performance issues such as capacity spikes or downtime with greater event detail.

- Rely on a robust security model that provides data security starting at web sites and dashboards, all the way down to cell-level detail.

- Deploy IT staff more efficiently.

Stay in Control of Profitability

Today’s financial professional needs integrated, accurate information to go beyond producing monthly reports and quarterly financial statements.

Microsoft Business Intelligence empowers Financial staff to:

- Gain visibility into the entire organization’s performance through familiar, easy-to-use dashboards that monitor key financial metrics.

- With an integrated, unified, trusted data platform, ensure data quality and create reports with numbers people can count on.

- Get up to speed quickly and spend less time on training by relying on tools you already know and use every day, such as Microsoft Excel.

- Minimize manual financial processes and reduce errors in spreadsheets.

- Enable organizational transparency to meet compliance requirements.

Empower process improvements

Operations managers need unified, accurate, up-to-date information to track inventory, analyze shipping costs, and resolve production problems quickly and efficiently.

With Microsoft Business Intelligence solutions, Operations managers are empowered to:

- Monitor and improve operational performance by consolidating data across multiple information sources.

- Gain visibility up and down the supply chain, across multiple locations and time zones.

- Support quality initiatives such as Lean Manufacturing and Six Sigma.

- Accurately forecast demand and spot trends to align resources more effectively.

- Measure and manage vendor performance.

- Analyze returns, exchanges, new orders, cancellations, raw materials and distribution costs.

- Optimize transportation methods by analyzing packing data and weights.

- Identify inefficient processes in production, customer service, and order processing. Get up to speed quickly and spend less time on training by relying on tools you already know and use every day, such as Microsoft Excel and Microsoft Outlook.

Capitalize on Sales Opportunities

Today’s sales team needs unified, accurate, up-to-date information to analyze sales forecasts, targets, quotas and customer buying patterns, and promotions—to drive sales growth.

Microsoft Business Intelligence solutions empower sales professionals to:

- Gain visibility into the sales pipeline sooner through familiar, easy-to-use dashboards and scorecards that track performance and monitor key performance indicators (KPIs).

- Analyze sales data and trends to identify issues and implement solutions that help meet sales quotas by target dates.

- Make accurate forecasts about future sales and get ahead of the next sales cycle.

- Understand and predict customer buying patterns to boost profitability.

- Analyze purchasing history to identify the best qualified sales prospects to increase effectiveness and productivity.

- Identify and capitalize on new sales opportunities in a fast-moving competitive environment.

http://www.pargesoft.com/ Microsoft Dynamics ERP Global Partner

Consumer Driven Planning for Microsoft Dynamics AX

Die Fähigkeit, Markttrends zu interpretieren, ist ein wesentlicher Bestandteil fundierter Absatzplanung und eine Voraussetzung für hervorragende Leistungen für Hersteller und Distributoren. Consumer Driven Planning for Microsoft Dynamics AX gibt Ihnen mehr Transparenz, damit Sie ein detailliertes Vertriebsbudget bis zur Produkt- und Kundenebene entwickeln und zuverlässige Verkaufsprognosen erstellen können, welche die Anforderungen der verschiedenen Vertriebskanäle berücksichtigen. Steigern Sie die Effektivität Ihrer Promotions und Events, reduzieren Sie schlecht laufende Abverkäufe, optimieren Sie die Bestände im gesamten Liefernetzwerk und sorgen Sie für rechtzeitigen Nachschub.

Consumer Driven Planning for Microsoft Dynamics AX basiert auf der Microsoft-Plattform.

Ihre Vorteile mit Consumer Driven Planning for Microsoft Dynamics

- Festlegung detaillierter Vertriebsbudgets
- Zuverlässige Absatzplanung
- Sortimentsplanung und Category Management
- Promotionplanung für strategische Abverkäufe
- Nachschubsteuerung / Sales & Operations Planning

Markttendenzen erkennen

Vergleichen Sie den erwarteten mit dem aktuellen Absatz und planen Sie den künftigen Absatz bis auf Wochen- oder Tagesebene - mit Berücksichtigung saisonaler Schwankungen und Promotions. Mit Simulationen, Absatzmodellen und Fehleranalysen können Sie die Bestände optimieren - mit positiven Auswirkungen auf Gewinn und Margen.

Betriebseffizienz steigern

Fördern Sie die Zusammenarbeit zwischen Ihren Mitarbeitern zur Konsolidierung von Absatzinformationen, Festlegung eines realistischen Vertriebsbudgets, Ausrichtung der Vertriebs- und Marketingstrategien, sowie zur Standardisierung der Betriebsabläufe.

Unternehmensagilität sichern

Mit detaillierter und rechtzeitiger Absatzinformation werden Sie Markttrends besser identifizieren, Aufträge prognostizieren und den Vertrieb planen können. Die Echtzeit-Ermittlung von Verkaufsdaten ermöglicht eine Verringerung der Prognosefehler sowie ein rechtzeitiges Reagieren auf Nachfrageschwankungen.

Absatz fördern

Überwachen und steuern Sie die Marktnachfrage mit effektiven Promotions und erreichen Sie dadurch Ihre Margenziele. Steigern Sie Ihre Fähigkeit, die Auswirkungen von Werbeaktionen auf den Umsatz richtig einzuschätzen und Produktion, Vertrieb und Bestände effizient zu planen.

Servicelevel maximieren

Beschleunigen Sie die Auftragserfüllung, reduzieren Sie Fehl- und Überbestände und steigern Sie Ihre Service Levels, indem Sie Transparenz und Reaktionsfähigkeit entlang der gesamten Supply Chain schaffen.

Funktionsüberblick Consumer Driven Planning for Microsoft Dynamics AX

Funktion	Beschreibung und Nutzen
Hierarchisches, marktabhängig konfigurierbares Datenmodell	Erstellen Sie Absatzpläne mit hierarchischen, multidimensionalen Datenstrukturen und definieren Sie dynamische Klassifizierungen für Produkte, Märkte und Zeiträume. Für jeden Parameter können Sie detaillierte Hierarchien definieren und damit das Nachfrageprofil modellieren, Simulationen durchführen und den Absatz auf dem beliebigen Aggregationsniveau prognostizieren.
Festlegung des Vertriebsbudgets	Fördern Sie die Zusammenarbeit zwischen den Abteilungen, um Absatzziele festzulegen und Performance-Analyse durch Top-Down, Bottom-Up und Middle-Out Datenmodelle durchzuführen. Definieren Sie Absatz- und Umsatzziele sowie Vertriebsbudgets auf verschiedenen Detailniveaus wie Region, Vertriebskanal, einzelnem Kunden, Produktlinie oder Marke.
Absatzplanung	Messen Sie Prognose-Genauigkeit, indem Sie die Absatzprognose mit Hilfe von fortgeschrittenen, auf der spezifischen Branche angepassten Algorithmen mit den aktuellen Verkaufsdaten vergleichen. Werten Sie die Auswirkungen verschiedener Prognose-Strategien durch Simulationswerkzeuge aus.
Promotionplanung	Identifizieren Sie die erfolgreichsten Promotions je Produktgruppe und Vertriebskanal. Koordinieren Sie Ihre Werbekampagnen mit Rücksicht auf deren Auswirkungen auf die Supply Chain. Bewerten Sie den Effekt einzelner Promotions auf den Absatz aus und archivieren Sie alle Promotion-Aktionen und deren Ergebnisse.
Sortimentsplanung und Category Management	Identifizieren Sie die richtigen Warengruppen und weisen Sie diese Ihrem Vertriebsnetz zu. Planen Sie Ihre Sortimente für jeden Vertriebskanal und/oder jede einzelne Verkaufsstelle auf Basis von Zielen der Saison bezüglich Absatz, Margen, Lagerumschlag und Einschränkungen wie z.B. Ihre Markenstrategie. Überwachen Sie die Absätze der laufenden Saison, indem Sie Best-Sellers, Ladenhüter und allgemeine Veränderungen in der Nachfrage identifizieren.
Bestandsplanung und -optimierung	Analysieren Sie Vorlaufzeiten und Kosten für den Nachschub, den Service-Level sowie die Genauigkeit der Absatzprognose, um die Distribution des Produktes entlang der gesamten Lieferkette zu optimieren. Reduzieren Sie den Gesamtbestand bei gleichzeitiger Anpassung des Servicelevels und Minimierung der Fehlbestände.
Nachschubsteuerung / Sales & Operations Planning	Planen Sie den Nachschub an die Distributionszentren unter Berücksichtigung des erwarteten Absatzes, der Struktur des Vertriebsnetzes, sowie der Auswirkungen verschiedener Bestandsstrategien auf den Servicelevel.
Analytics	Überwachen Sie die Performance-Indikatoren Ihrer Geschäftsprozesse, wie z. B. Scorecards und KPIs, mit spezialisierten Analysen und auf Ihre individuellen Anforderungen angepassten Berichten.

Hinweis
Die Verfügbarkeit der MDIS-Lösungen ist branchen- und länderabhängig. Es sind derzeit noch nicht alle Lösungen in allen Ländern verfügbar. Wenn Sie auf der Suche nach einer bestimmten Branchenlösung sind, nehmen Sie bitte Kontakt mit uns auf.
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Professional Services for Microsoft Dynamics™ AX 2009

Working with federal, state, and local government agencies can be a challenge. Strict regulatory requirements and procurement agents can make it difficult just to break even on fixed-price contracts. To be successful, you have to manage this complexity and deliver a quality product or service while still making money. With Professional Services for Microsoft Dynamics™ AX, government contractors can help better manage project teams, increase employee productivity, and remain in compliance with complex government audit policies and procedures.

Integrate Financial, Human Resources, and  Project Management Information
Help connect disparate systems to integrate data for comprehensive pictures of your firm and accounts and streamline company- and project-related processes. Reduce redundant data entry and management efforts, improve accuracy, and increase staff productivity by integrating Microsoft Dynamics AX general ledger, purchasing, receivables, and time and expense functionality. Benefit from tight integration with familiar productivity software, including Microsoft® Office Excel® 2003, Microsoft Office Word 2003, and Microsoft Office Project Server 2003.

Benefits:

· Integrated firm-wide processes and information

· Compliance with government regulations

· Enhanced handling of time and expenses

· Easy management of requests for proposals (RFPs) and contracts

· Positive return on investment (ROI)

Remain Compliant with Government Regulations
Help collect and analyze project-related time and expense data and generate accurate, up-to-the-minute reports for government audits. View agency, department, contract, and project details in real time for an accurate accounting of progress and profitability.

Capture and Report Time and Expenses Efficiently
Capture customer, project, sub-project, or task-level time and expenses through a powerful Web-based, workflow-enabled time and expense entry interface. Standard features include document and line-item-level timecard and expense report approvals; integration with client and agency expense reimbursement rules; and automatic downloading of assigned tasks to timesheets and credit card statements to expense reports.

Track and manage multiple change requests throughout the lifetime of a project with complete roll-up and historical archival capabilities. Produce robust real-time reports that can be saved for repeated use.

Flexible Project Management Capabilities	Configure work breakdown structures (WBS) to suit your business needs; define matrix tables for costs and rates; and establish billing rules and revenue recognition methods.
CRM	Manage RFPs, contracts, quotations, and sales orders at an enterprise level within your business management system. Produce robust reports on pre- and post-sales activity
Detailed Job Analysis	Accumulate costs and analyze projects with drill-down capabilities at multiple levels. Flexible planning and reporting allow you to assign resources and report at the appropriate level of detail.
Customer Profile Folders and Templates	Customer and project folders allow you to create client-specific project billing rates, expense rules, and archive and retrieve historical staffing plans, estimates, purchase orders, invoices, and budget reconciliations.
Web-Based, Workflow-Enabled Time and Expense Entry	Maintain tight control over costs and shorten billing cycle time with automated approval processes for timesheets and streamlined processes for cash advances, travel advances, and credit card reconciliation. Set alerts on timesheets to indicate when time is not being entered as required, or when committed costs exceed budgets.
Customizable Revenue Recognition and Project Billing Rules	Define recognition at the company, customer, project, or activity level and pre-configure rules for percent complete, completed contract, time and materials, and fixed fees with tools that conform to the way your company works. Flexible billing parameters support retainers, fees, milestones, and progress billing.
Multicompany and Multicurrency Support	Your business can support distinct departments, offices, and companies and apply inter-company rules within one database. Track financial transactions within and between different departments and subsidiaries to help ensure an accurate overview of revenue and cost flows. Full multicurrency support enables you to perform automatic conversions associated with project budgeting, costing, billing, accounting, and reporting.
Microsoft Project Bi-directional Integration with Project Accounting	Full bi-directional integration with Project Server 2003 offers both increased team collaboration capabilities and ease of use. With powerful resource scheduling and tracking tools, your company can improve cost efficiencies by better managing the allocation of resources.

Manage Contract and Sales Opportunity Data More Effectively
When coupled with customer relationship management (CRM) functionality, Professional Services for Microsoft Dynamics AX can become a full-featured RFP-to-project management tool. Manage opportunities, contacts, RFPs, contracts, and transactions all in one place. And when you close a deal, you may convert quotations to sales orders with one-click ease.

Professional Services for Microsoft Dynamics AX also comes standard with a robust set of sales-pipeline and in-process sales reports, such as prognosis for quotation, won-lost, master planning estimates, turnover reports, campaign analysis, and business relations.

Achieve a Positive ROI
Because Professional Services for Microsoft Dynamics AX integrates closely with other powerful Microsoft technologies such as Microsoft SQL Server™ 2000, Microsoft Internet Information Services, and the Microsoft Windows® operating system, your firm can take advantage of existing IT investments and gain a fast return on your investment. And supported by a wizard-based configuration and system setup tool, Microsoft Business Solutions–Axapta®, now part of Microsoft Dynamics, has been shown to significantly reduce implementation times and total cost of ownership for customers.*

*Nucleus Research, Inc. The Real ROI from Axapta. Research Note E116, October 2004

http://www.pargesoft.com/ Microsoft Dynamics AX NAV CRM Global Partner

Microsoft Dynamics Video: Oracle Migration to Dynamics ERP

Network Equipment Technology is a provider of enterprise solutions. They moved from Oracle to Microsoft Dynamics AX. They saw a significant costs savings with the move and also increases in user productivity.

http://www.pargesoft.com/ Microsoft Dynamics NAV ve AX Global Partner

Solutions Pour â but non lucratif - Microsoft Dynamics NAV

Le succès de votre gestion demande une grande vigilance sur les détails. Prudence dans l'administration des dépenses et rigueur dans le reporting, telles sont les conditions indispensables pour garantir le respect de la réglementation et un financement futur moins incertain.

Microsoft Dynamics offre des solutions de gestion d'entreprise puissantes, conçues pour prendre en charge vos besoins spécifiques. Parce qu'elles permettent de créer des rapports précis et pertinents en temps réel, d'accéder facilement aux données et d'automatiser les processus, nos solutions réduisent le temps passé à des tâches routinières. Ainsi, vous pouvez mieux vous consacrer à votre objectif premier : fournir des services et de la valeur à vos bénéficiaires.

POURQUOI DEVRIEZ-VOUS UTILISER LES SOLUTIONS MICROSOFT DYNAMICS ?

Pour assurer une gestion financière responsable

Accès en temps réel aux informations financières pour appuyer la prise de décision sur une comptabilité de projets intégrée. Intégration des données issues de systèmes disparates (finance et programmes, par exemple) autorisant une visibilité complète de votre organisation. Automatisation et rationalisation des processus métier (gestion des financements par exemple) pour réduire les coûts, diminuer les erreurs et économiser du temps. Amélioration de la précision et de l'actualité des rapports fournis aux composantes internes et externes afin d'assurer une intégrité et une responsabilité financières. Meilleur respect des obligations en matière de règlement et d'audit (par exemple norme NEP en France).

Pour améliorer la fourniture des services et accroître la satisfaction générale

Amélioration de la gestion des dossiers grâce à un accès facile à toutes les informations les concernant. Réponse rapide et précise aux demandes via une vue unifiée de tous les éléments. Amélioration de la gestion des projets par une centralisation de toutes les informations les concernant. Analyse des délais de livraison et mesure des performances organisationnelles afin d'améliorer l'efficacité des services. Exécution de campagnes marketing ciblées.
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Microsoft Dynamics AX Fonctionnalités.

Aujourd’hui, comment faites-vous pour obtenir en moins de 5 minutes une vision claire de l’état de votre activité ? Avec Microsoft Dynamics AX, vous disposez d’un outil de gestion « tout en un » capable de centraliser les données de l’ensemble de vos départements (finances, relation client, chaîne logistique, marketing, ventes, production...) et de vous restituer rapidement un bilan clair.

Découvrez ici l’ensemble de ses fonctionnalités.

•Analyse et pilotage de l’activité

Comment obtenir rapidement un état précis de votre activité, afin de vous permettre de prendre les bonnes décisions stratégiques ?

•Gestion de la chaîne logistique

Comment réduire vos stocks grâce à une meilleure planification de la production et des prévisions ?

•Collaboration dans la chaîne logistique

Intégrez les processus opérationnels externes et supportez de manière économique la connectivité entre applications tout au long de la chaîne logistique.

•Gestion des ventes

Comment permettre à votre force de vente de visualiser rapidement les habitudes d’achat de chacun de vos clients et ainsi mieux répondre à leurs attentes ?

•Gestion des Services

Donnez à vos représentants, techniciens et responsables du Service Clients les moyens et autorisations nécessaires pour optimiser l’efficience dans tous les domaines, comprendre les revenus et les coûts et augmenter la rentabilité.

•Gestion de projets

Comment mieux répartir les charges de travail en obtenant une planification des tâches pour des groupes de postes de travail ou des postes de travail autonomes ?

•Gestion financière

La Gestion Financière de Microsoft Dynamics AX permet une gestion de votre entreprise par objectif et une maîtrise de vos coûts en temps réel.

•Gestion de production

Microsoft Dynamics AX vous informe en temps réel sur vos processus de production pour vous aider à améliorer votre productivité et à réduire vos coûts. Cette solution vous permet de gérer vos ateliers, intègre un configurateur et une gestion de projet complète.

•Gestion des processuss

Automatisez les processus opérationnels et améliorez la productivité en aidant vos équipes à gérer et suivre les principaux événements liés à votre activité.

•Gestion des Rôles

Aidez les gens à travailler rapidement et de manière avisée, en leur donnant un accès à l’information, aux tâches et aux processus opérationnels en fonction de leur rôle.

•Gestion des Ressources Humaines

Recrutez et fidélisez les collaborateurs talentueux dont votre entreprise a besoin pour assurer le succès de votre organisation.

•5 nouvelles solutions métiers

Des solutions pour mieux répondre aux besoins des PME/PMI et filiales de groupes.

•Microsoft Dynamics AX Snap in

Microsoft lance Microsoft Dynamics Snap, une nouvelle collection de logiciels qui vient compléter la suite Microsoft Office.

Microsoft Dynamics AX for discrete manufacturing

Success in the manufacturing industry requires that you produce the right products, in the right quantities, at the right time, with good quality, and at a price the customer is willing to pay. The flexibility to respond to compliance standards and the ever-changing needs of customers, such as providing real-time visibility into global operations, is also imperative for success. Meeting these demands requires the ability to make quick decisions based on accurate data. Microsoft and its partners deliver systems that can help you improve operations, open visibility into the supply chain, and increase your competitiveness.

Microsoft Dynamics AX can help streamline processes and minimize the costs of carrying inventory for firms that produce goods from raw materials.

Lean Manufacturing for Microsoft Dynamics AX

Lean Manufacturing for Microsoft Dynamics AX can help manufacturing organizations implement, energize, and sustain lean manufacturing initiatives by delivering the tools and information support needed to streamline processes, reduce waste, enable demand-pull operations, and promote continuous improvement. As part of Microsoft Dynamics AX, robust lean manufacturing functionality complements the solution’s comprehensive customer relationship, financial, collaboration, and supply chain management capabilities to help manufacturers increase efficiency and profitability and gain a competitive advantage.

This functionality is delivered as an integral part of a flexible and familiar end-to-end business management solution complete with the business insight and collaboration tools you need to sustain lean manufacturing and gain a competitive advantage.

Apparel and Textile for Microsoft Dynamics AX

Apparel and Textile for Microsoft Dynamics AX can help you address the complex coding, traceability, and changing process needs of apparel and textile manufacturers—from fibers to yarns, consumer and industrial fabrics, home goods, clothing, designer lines, and fashion accessories. If you can satisfy demanding customers and sustain agile businesses, you are better equipped to stay ahead of global competition, manage complex supply networks, and handle ongoing mergers and acquisitions.

Apparel and Textile for Microsoft Dynamics AX

Apparel and Textile for Microsoft Dynamics AX is designed to address complex coding, traceability, and changing process needs of apparel and textile manufacturers—from fibers to yarns, consumer and industrial fabrics, home goods, clothing, designer lines, and fashion accessories. With the ability to satisfy demanding customers and sustain agile businesses, you are better equipped to stay ahead of global competition, manage complex supply networks, and handle ongoing mergers and acquisitions.

Traceability

Gain comprehensive traceability and handle numerous material and product variables effectively with multi-dimensional item coding.

Track materials through variable sourcing and manufacturing processes, subcontractors, inventory, and logistics, including intercompany processing.

Manage complex item variables with advanced coding attributes and "smart" stock-keeping unit (SKU) coding for raw materials, process outputs, and item characteristics.

Automatically update item codes based on manufacturing process completion with transaction-driven code changes and extensions.

Link finished goods back to components and suppliers through item bills of material (BOMs).

Financial management

Control costs by monitoring and analyzing material, item, order, and cost information using comprehensive financial management tools.

Analyze performance and profitability across your business.

Generate multi-faceted price lists that include promotional, trade show, or showroom pricing.

Process management

Increase agility with adaptable processes for sourcing, manufacturing, and shipment allocation.

Meet changing customer and supplier requirements with blanket orders, neutral BOMs, multiline manufacturing orders, inventory double units of measure, and variable routing and allocation simulations.

Enable production and materials planning, independent of variables such as size, color, or color-way.

Run simulations and model new processes to adapt quickly to changes.

Production

Increase efficiency.

Support either push or pull production policies, and integrate subcontractor routings and management into planning and logistics.

Customer orders

Streamline order entry.

Create multiple order types, such as collection and showroom orders, and opening blanket orders with truncated codes for later specification.

Accommodate multiple shipment addresses and delivery dates per order.

Save time making mass modifications in existing or blanket orders.

Define and meet customer requirements for put-up options, labeling, unitizing, and documentation.

Speed billing and reconciliation with item and shipment information that is fully integrated into invoicing and accounting processes.

Quality assurance

Integrate quality grading processes and information into the production and supply chain.

Allocate products of various grades to different distribution channels.

Gain insight into grade costs and profitability.

Inventory management

Maintain multiple material status indicators.

Improve inventory management with comprehensive tracking of materials and finished goods.

Supply chain management

Increase supply chain visibility.

Monitor subcontractor performance, and collaborate effectively.

Incorporate supply partners into costing and routing decisions.

Share demand and inventory information in real time.

Use multicurrency, multilingual, and multisite support to speed transactions, improve transparency, and provide consolidated financial reporting to people worldwide.

Offer trade partners security-enhanced, self-service access to key business processes through familiar Web browsers.

Price lists

Access integrated cost information.

Easily generate price lists for finished goods of various quality grades, sizing, and quantities.

Create and maintain special promotional, trade show, or showroom pricing.

Units of measure and conversion

Automate measurement conversions based on algorithms for improved accuracy and consistency.

Microsoft Dynamics für Transport und Logistik

Das bewegt die Branche: Branchenlösungen von Microsoft Dynamics für Transport und Logistik

Unternehmen in Transport und Logistik müssen ihre Produkte und Dienstleistungen eng mit ihren Auftraggebern verzahnen und für transparente Prozesse entlang der Supply Chain sorgen. Und überall gilt: Schnelligkeit ist Trumpf. Derzeit verzeichnet die Transport- und Logistikbranche erstmals nach mehreren Jahren überdurchschnittlichen Wachstums stagnierende Umsätze. Dafür sind vor allem die höheren Kosten für Energie, Treibstoff und die Nutzung von Verkehrswegen und auch die gestiegenen Kundenanforderungen verantwortlich. Hier auf unseren Internetseiten für Transport und Logistik finden Sie praxisorientierte Informationen zu Markttrends und technischen Entwicklungen sowie Branchenlösungen von Microsoft Dynamics-Partnern.

Mit Branchenlösungen von Microsoft Dynamics decken Sie die Geschäftsanforderungen Ihres Unternehmens in Transport und Logistik ab. Ihre besonderen Vorteile: Sie erhalten eine maßgeschneiderte Software und profitieren von dem Know-how unserer Partner, die sich auf Ihre Branche spezialisiert haben.

Logistik-Outsourcing mit Logistiksoftware optimieren

Unternehmensübergreifende Zusammenarbeit erforderlich

Outsourcing wird in der Logistik immer wichtiger. In Westeuropa geben die Unternehmen bereits 64 Prozent ihres Logistikbudgets für externe Dienstleister aus. Das zeigt eine aktuelle Studie der Management-Beratung Capgemini und des Georgia Institute of Technology, für die weltweit 1.430 Logistikmanager befragt wurden. Für die nächsten fünf Jahre rechnen die befragten Manager mit weiteren Zuwachsraten von zwölf bis 17 Prozent. Asien liegt jetzt schon mit einer Outsourcing-Quote von 63 Prozent fast gleichauf mit Europa, nur die USA und Lateinamerika liegen mit 48 und 39 Prozent weiter zurück.

Beim Outsourcing von Dienstleistung der Logistik geht es noch vorrangig um klassische Aufgaben: Transport (gesamt 90 Prozent, Westeuropa 95 Prozent), Lagerhaltung (74/76 Prozent) und Zollabfertigung (70/59 Prozent). Höherwertige Dienstleistungen, wie Sendungskonsolidierung, produktnahe Mehrwertleistungen oder auch Rückwärtslogistik, werden seltener nachgefragt. Selbst die deutsche Bundeswehr lagert heute Logistik aus und fliegt beispielsweise ihre Soldaten mit angemieteten Antonow-Flugzeugen zu Auslandseinsätzen.

Insgesamt sind die Unternehmen dabei ziemlich zufrieden mit ihren Dienstleistern, zeigt die Studie von Capgemini. Allerdings stimmt nur die Hälfte der Befragten der Aussage zu, dass ihr Logistiker ihnen neue und innovative Ansätze zur Steigerung der Effektivität bietet. „Zunächst einmal müssen die Logistikunternehmen ihre Hausaufgaben bei den Basisdienstleistungen machen und hohe Qualität zu akzeptablen Preisen liefern“, sagt Dr. Martin Raab, Leiter der Beratungssparte für die Logistikindustrie bei Capgemini. „Die Kür stellen die neuen, höherwertigen Dienstleistungen sowie Innovationen dar.“ Der Preis muss natürlich auch stimmen. Nach Untersuchungen des Bundesverbandes Materialwirtschaft, Einkauf und Logistik (BME) existieren beispielsweise in der Luftfracht Preisunterschiede von bis zu 150 Prozent. In der Seefracht sind es sogar 200 Prozent.

Für den allergrößten Teil der von Capgemini befragten Logistikmanager (92 Prozent) gehören bestimmte IT-Standards und adäquate Logistiksoftware zum unbedingten Pflichtprogramm ihrer Dienstleister. Fast zwei Drittel unterziehen ihre Outsourcing-Partner und deren Logistiksoftware sogar einer besonderen IT-Prüfung, bevor sie einen Auftrag vergeben. Im Kontrast dazu steht aber ihre tatsächliche Zufriedenheit mit der IT des Logistikdienstleisters: Lediglich 35 Prozent äußern sich positiv. „Für die Logistikanbieter wird dies zu einem wunden Punkt“, sagt Raab. „Die künftigen Dienstleistungen und die Vernetzung mit Kundensystemen erfordern immer bessere Informationstechnologien. Eine integrierte IT-Plattform wird damit zu einem geschäftskritischen Faktor.“

Das Outsourcing von Logistikdienstleistungen funktioniert also nur dann gut, wenn danach die Prozess- und Bestandskosten niedrig sowie die Lieferzeiten kurz sind und die Liefertreue des Dienstleisters hoch ist. Bei der modernen Logistik geht es darum, kundenorientiert und kostenminimal das richtige Produkt zur richtigen Zeit zum richtigen Preis am richtigen Ort in der richtigen Menge und der richtigen Qualität bereitzustellen. Funktionieren kann dies heute nur noch, wenn die externen Logistikdienstleister eng an ein Unternehmen angebunden sind und die richtigen Daten zum richtigen Zeitpunkt schnell, einfach und zuverlässig ausgetauscht werden. Moderne Unternehmenssteuerungs- und Planungssysteme (Enterprise Resource Planning, ERP) bieten entsprechende Programmmodule und Schnittstellen. Microsoft Dynamics NAV und Microsoft Dynamics AX unterstützen Logistikprozesse und machen auch eine Zusammenarbeit zwischen Dienstleister und Kunden über Unternehmensgrenzen hinweg möglich. Microsoft Dynamics-Partner bieten zudem Branchenlösungen, die auf die besonderen Anforderungen von Logistikunternehmen ausgerichtet sind. Nicht zuletzt ermöglicht Microsoft BizTalk Server die Anbindung von Fremdsystemen für einen nahtlosen Daten- und Informationsaustausch.

Branchenlösungen für Transport und Logistik von Microsoft Dynamics: Referenzen im Überblick

Über 300.000 Kunden weltweit setzen auf Microsoft Dynamics. Mit den Branchenlösungen unserer zertifizierten Partner erhalten Sie ein maßgeschneidertes Komplettpaket, das Ihr Unternehmen in allen branchen- und unternehmensspezifischen Aspekten unterstützt. Hier finden Sie eine Auswahl von Kunden, die von ihren Erfolgen mit Microsoft Dynamics berichten.

Lesen Sie in den Referenzen, wie eine Branchenlösung zentrale Geschäftsprozesse optimieren und automatisieren kann und wie unsere Kunden vom Branchen-Know-how unserer Partner profitieren.

Referenzen in Transport und Logistik

Bantleon GmbH
Produkte: Microsoft Dynamics NAV
Partner: SIEVERS-SNC
Das mittelständische Mineralölunternehmen Hermann Bantleon GmbH hat sich in den letzten Jahren immer mehr vom Handelsunternehmen zum Systemanbieter und Logistikdienstleister entwickelt.
„Mit der Lagerlösung SNC/Logistics haben wir unsere Erwartungen und die unserer Kunden an mehr Flexibilität und Transparenz in der Auftragsabwicklung nicht nur erfüllt, sondern weit übertroffen.“ Heiner Krähling, IT-Leiter bei der Hermann Bantleon GmbH

Häfen und Güterverkehr Köln AG
Produkte: Microsoft Dynamics CRM
Partner: PRIM Management Consult GmbH
Die Häfen und Güterverkehr Köln AG ist 1992 aus der Fusion der Häfen Köln GmbH, der Köln-Bonner Eisenbahnen AG und der Köln-Frechen-Benzelrather Eisenbahn entstanden.
„Das Zusammenspiel zwischen Dynamics CRM und Outlook hat uns am besten gefallen. Die vielen gemeinsamen Abläufe halten den Einarbeitungsaufwand gering.“ Heinz Vitus, IT-Leiter, Häfen und Güterverkehr Köln AG

SCHMIDT-Gruppe
Produkte: Microsoft Dynamics NAV
Partner: SIEVERS-SNC
Die SCHMIDT- Gruppe zählt mit über 800 Mitarbeitern, 28 Niederlassungen in 9 Ländern, 800 Fahrzeugen, 1.110 Lagersilos, 111.500m² Lagerhallen und über 3.000 Containern zu Europas größten Logistikdienstleistern im Schüttgutbereich.
„Unsere Kunden sind begeistern, wie sicher, schnell und problemlos wir heute Prozessinformationen liefern – und das 24 Stunden am Tag ohne zusätzlichen Personaleinsatz.“ Michael Pütz, Niederlassungsleiter in Köln-Niehl

4Wheels Service + Logistik GmbH
Produkte: Microsoft Dynamics NAV
Partner: SIEVERS-SNC
4Wheels Service + Logistik GmbH lagert bundesweit Sommer- und Winterreifen in 50 Niederlassungen ein. Der Service ist als Dienstleistung für Werkstätten und Autohäuser konzipiert, die für Privathaushalte und Firmen Räder wechseln.
„Im Vergleich zu einer Inhouselösung sparen wir rund 15 bis 20 Prozent der Gesamtkosten. Die gewonnene Liquidität investieren wir in unser Kerngeschäft.“ Robin Vogl, geschäftsführender Gesellschafter, 4Wheels Service + Logistik GmbH

REISSWOLF Köln GmbH
Produkte: Microsoft Dynamics NAV
Partner: tegos gmbh dortmund
Seit der Einführung der Branchenlösung mit Microsoft Dynamics NAV wissen die Mitarbeiter der REISSWOLF Köln GmbH jederzeit, wo sich die Fahrzeuge befinden. Die Zuladung wird bei der Abholung übermittelt, die Nacherfassung entfällt.

Truck24 AG
Produkte: Microsoft Dynamics CRM, Microsoft Dynamics NAV
Partner: k.section business solutions gmbh
Mit Microsoft Dynamics CRM ist es gelungen, die ungeordnete Abstimmung per E-Mail in strukturierte Prozesse zu überführen.
Audioreferenz

Kapasite İhtiyaç Planlama - MRP Nedir?

Kapasite Nedir?

1.Toplam iş yükü hacmi

2.Mevcut ürün karakteristikleri ve çeşitleri, tesis ve donanımla, belirli bir dönem içinde gerçekleştirilebilecek maksimum çıktı düzeyi

3.İşletmenin beklenen fonksiyonlarının gerçekleştirme ölçüsü

4.Elde bulunan üretim sistemi, ürün çeşitliliği, iş gücü, fabrika şartları ve ekipman ile ulaşılabilinen en yüksek üretim miktarı olarak tanımlanabilir.

İşletmenin kapasite kapsamına, insan ve üretim araçlarından başka arazi,yapı, besleme ve atık tesisleri ile birlikte işyerleri de girer.

Kapasite nicel ve nitel olarak iki bölüme ayrılır.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Nitel Kapasite: İnsan veya üretim araçlarının sayıları, kullanım tarih ,kullanım süreleri ve kullanım yerleri ile tanımlanır.

Nicel Kapasite: İnsanın nitel kapasitesi, performansı , üretim araçlarının ve iş yerlerinin nicel kapasiteleri ise performans güçleri ile belirlenir.

Ayrıca kapasiteyi üç grupta da inceleyebiliriz:

Teorik Kapasite: Makinaların sürekli çalışmaları sonucu ulaşılacak çıktı düzeyi. Kullanılabilir Kapasite: Teorik kapasite miktarından hafta sonu ,tatil günleri, çeşitli revizyonlar nedeniyle meydana gelen duruşlar çıkarılarak bulunur. Geçmiş dönem elde edilen çıktı miktarı kullanılabilir kapasiteyi temsil eder.

Planlanan Kapasite: Hazırlanan üretim planlarının uygulanması sırasında gerekecek kapasite miktarını belirtir.

Gerçekleşen Kapasite: Üretim sonrası elde edilen çıktı düzeyini ifade eder.

Kapasite ölçümünde karşılaşılan temel zorluklar üretilen ürünlerin çeşitliliğinden kaynaklanmaktadır. Birçok üretim sisteminde kapasite zorlanılmadan belirlenebilir. Şeker üretiminde kapasite üretilen ton miktarıyla tanımlanır veya bir otomobil fabrikasının kapasitesi bir yıl içindeki üretilen otomobil sayısı ile belirlenir. Ürün çeşitliliğinin fazla olduğu işletmelerde ise kapasite tanımının hangi çeşide göre yapılacağı sorun çıkarır. Ürün veya sistem çıktıları benzerse kapasite tanımlanması ortak bir birimde yapılır. Diğer taraftan ürün yapısı karmaşık ise,ortak bir birim kullanmak verimli bir sonuç vermez. Bu gibi durumlarda,kapasite,üretimde kullanılan üretim cinsi girdilerle tanımlanır.

http://www.pargesoft.com Microsoft Dynamics ERP Çözüm Ortağı

Going Mobile with Microsoft Dynamics

Learn more about how Microsoft Dynamics AX and Microsoft Dynamics NAV is changing the way you do business... by going mobile.

Blue Sun - Microsoft Dynamics NAV customer stories

A provider of alternative fuels from sustainable resources, Blue Sun has built a strong reputation for product excellence. To manage the company most efficiently in a challenging business climate and to prepare to capitalize on the promise of its Blue Sun Fusion brand following a recovery, Blue Sun implemented Microsoft Dynamics NAV. The solution provides company managers with the meaningful insight they need to move the business forward. It also facilitates with ease the many types of reporting Blue Sun requires to demonstrate regulatory compliance, drive financial performance, nurture strategic relationships, and maintain high levels of individual and organizational productivity. By using Microsoft Dynamics NAV, the company has added customers and distribution channels without increasing overhead and is poised to realize significantly enhanced growth as the clean-tech market rebounds.


With Microsoft Dynamics NAV, we’ve become an extremely efficient, lean operation. We know it also has the flexibility to scale to the substantial growth we are preparing for today.


Jerry Washburn, Senior Vice President and CFO, Blue Sun

Situation
With headquarters in Golden, Colorado, Blue Sun markets a product family of alternative fuels under the brand of Blue Sun Fusion. Founded in 2001 with the goal of developing the best possible biodiesel fuel, Blue Sun went to market in early 2005 after extensive research and development efforts. Blue Sun Fusion products offer a variety of blends of traditional diesel with fuel from renewable sources, which are proprietary oilseed crops. The company quickly garnered an outstanding reputation as a provider of renewable-source fuel products of a significantly higher quality than traditional diesel fuels.

Blue Sun operates a fuel distribution network with sophisticated, high-volume ration-blending terminals, from which trains and trucks can transport Blue Sun Fusion products to almost any location in North America. Today, Blue Sun Fusion fuels are available mostly in the Mountain West region of the United States and neighboring areas, including Arizona, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, New Mexico, Utah, and Wyoming. Blue Sun’s main business groups engage with the supply chain to procure raw oil feed stocks, which a contract refinery refines into biodiesel; make these fuels available to the Blue Sun Fusion product offering or resell them domestically and internationally; and market the Blue Sun Fusion brand.

With the economic downturn, companies in the alternative-fuel industry have faced severe challenges to their business viability and made far-ranging adjustments to remain competitive. An embargo by the European Union on biodiesel from the United States added to the urgency of doing so. Of 17 alternative-fuel companies that venture capitalists or private equity groups funded from 2005 to 2007, only Blue Sun and one other organization are still in business. Blue Sun today maintains a small, efficient team and pursues strategic partnerships with large petroleum companies to jointly market the Blue Sun Fusion brand and products.

To ready the company to weather a recessionary economy and capitalize on newly emerging opportunities for growth, Blue Sun decided to make more strategic use of software technology. As Jerry Washburn, Senior Vice President and CFO at Blue Sun, explains, “Our employees would create stand-alone spreadsheets to track and reconcile financial and other business data, which was a labor-intensive practice. The accuracy of the results was often questionable and rarely provided the meaningful insight into the business that managers needed.”

In addition, Blue Sun’s needs outgrew the capabilities of the Sage Peachtree accounting software that the company used. Specifically, Blue Sun sought a complete enterprise resource planning (ERP) solution that included:

- Dimensional accounting to accommodate multiple departments and divisions without being compelled to handle them through the general ledger.
- Cost center and profit center accounting.
- Commodity tracking.
- Tax credit tracking and handling.
- Intercompany transaction posting, elimination, and consolidation.
- Compliance and financial reporting.
- Process-manufacturing management functionality.

In 2007 ... we used Microsoft Dynamics NAV to boost individual and organizational productivity and doubled our revenue, adding new customers and distribution channels, without hiring more staff.


Jerry Washburn, Senior Vice President and CFO, Blue Sun

Solution
Washburn knew of Radiant Technologies, a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner with a strong concentration on clean-tech industries and deep expertise in using technology to achieve environmental benefits. Radiant Technologies is headquartered in San Diego, California, close to many alternative-energy and sustainability-focused organizations. The company also has offices in Denmark and Singapore. Within the company’s technology portfolio, Microsoft Dynamics NAV plays an especially prominent role.

Michael Anderson, CEO of Radiant Technologies, highlights the reasons why the company feels so strongly about Microsoft Dynamics NAV: “Clean-tech and other environmentally directed companies often run many different phases of business operations—from startup and research and development to commercial distribution—within a very short time. Some of these companies follow nontraditional business models that may have little precedent. Microsoft Dynamics NAV is a great fit for such organizations because it offers a flexible programming environment and extensible software tools that we can use with great efficiency to create business management infrastructures that help companies to innovate and grow.”

Blue Sun had set a short timeline to get the new business management solution running and wanted to get started using the solution without making any changes to its hardware and network configurations. To start, Radiant Technologies deployed Microsoft Dynamics NAV as a hosted solution to save Blue Sun the costs of an on-premises solution and the expenses and reconfiguration effort related to hardware changes. The entire implementation, including some customization to support process-manufacturing and fuel-blending operations, took less than 90 days. Later, Blue Sun streamlined its hardware environment and brought Microsoft Dynamics NAV in-house. However, Washburn anticipates that growth during the coming years will bring the company to a point when a hosted solution again makes more sense for the business.

Today, Blue Sun uses Microsoft Dynamics NAV primarily for financial and compliance reporting. All business and financial data reside within the solution. By using Microsoft Dynamics NAV, Blue Sun employees perform order processing, general-ledger consolidation, accounts payable and accounts receivable tasks, inventory cost management, and extensive reporting. To help generate the reports in the precise formats Blue Sun managers want, the solution integrates with Jet Reports. And, employees at Blue Sun no longer use stand-alone spreadsheets or other insular reporting functions.

Radiant Technologies enriches Microsoft Dynamics NAV with graphically rich, intuitive, highly action reports on business results.

Microsoft Dynamics NAV connects with an off-site payroll system facilitated by Ceridian, sending and receiving payroll details. And to ease tax reporting, the solution links with the tax management systems of several states where the company does business, automatically populating state tax–reporting forms with business data. In the near future, Blue Sun plans to link the solution with its human resource records, which Ceridian also manages, and connect it with a Concur travel and expense management system. Manufacturing and distribution operations will come online with Microsoft Dynamics NAV as demand grows. Eventually, when the company develops more established strategic relationships with distribution and marketing partners, the solution will support collaboration with these partners and provide them with access to business information.

Benefits
Having successfully weathered a challenging economic downturn, Blue Sun is preparing to grow market share and revenue as proven providers of clean and sustainable technologies to garner increased attention. “Microsoft Dynamics NAV is smoothly fine-tuned to the specific requirements of our business,” says Washburn. “It facilitates all the reporting and management tasks we need to perform today and will serve as the core of our business infrastructure in the years to come.”

Reliable, complete business information from Microsoft Dynamics NAV helps us increase our visibility and communicate the unique value of our brand and products to partners, investors, and the public.


Jerry Washburn, Senior Vice President and CFO, Blue Sun

Meaningful Business Insight and Compelling Visibility
Today, Blue Sun owns a single, centralized repository for all business information and has discarded the isolated spreadsheets and other informal information management tools that it previously used. Says Washburn, “Blue Sun enjoys the ability to easily generate all the reports it needs to demonstrate regulatory compliance, help the board and business managers to make sound decisions based on real-time business insight, and make a compelling business case to potential strategic partners.” Washburn and other executives can also review the company’s financial events and trends in the form of highly intuitive dashboards that make it possible to absorb information quickly.

For a company that is successfully emerging from a global recession and is pursuing a larger share of the market when other clean-tech competitors may be struggling, the ability to use data as business evidence is critical. Explains Washburn, “Reliable, complete business information from Microsoft Dynamics NAV helps us increase our visibility and communicate the unique value of our brand and products to partners, investors, and the public.”

Strategic Focus with Low Technology Ownership Cost
With Microsoft Dynamics NAV, Blue Sun operates with great efficiency and keeps costs under close control. “In 2007, for example, we used Microsoft Dynamics NAV to boost individual and organizational productivity and doubled our revenue, adding new customers and distribution channels, without hiring more staff,” says Washburn. “Consolidating management processes on a single, integrated solution makes a big difference in keeping our overhead low.”

Blue Sun expects to further minimize its cost of technology ownership when Microsoft Dynamics NAV will again become a hosted solution, which is what Blue Sun expects to happen as it looks to support sustained growth facilitated by the most efficient and economical use of resources. As Washburn states, “I believe software as a service has excellent potential for us, with an optimal combination of best economy and flexible technology. We will be able to generate substantial savings simply by eliminating much of our hardware and service contracts.”

Scalable to Support Clean-Tech Resurgence

Role Centers in Microsoft Dynamics NAV, fine-tuned by Radiant Technologies, help

business managers find exactly the data and functions they require most in their jobs.



Given changing economic trends and the current administration’s emphasis on renewable energy, Blue Sun expects increasing interest in its Blue Sun Fusion biodiesel products along with stronger growth for the entire clean-tech industry. The company already takes advantage of the technology to thrive through shifting business requirements. “With Microsoft Dynamics NAV, we’ve become an extremely efficient, lean operation,” says Washburn. “We know it also has the flexibility to scale to the substantial growth we are preparing for today.”

For Blue Sun, that renewed growth is likely to include international expansion, which means the company will be able to take full advantage of the multilanguage, multicurrency, and multisite capabilities of Microsoft Dynamics NAV. As growth accelerates and the Blue Sun Fusion brand becomes more broadly available and appreciated by consumers, the solution’s business intelligence and reporting capabilities will continue to play a critical role in executives’ ability to take the company in the right direction.
 
Solution Overview


Organization Profile
Blue Sun, a clean-tech innovator with a strong reputation for product excellence, markets a family of biodiesel fuels from sustainable resources under its Blue Sun Fusion brand.

Business Situation
The company wanted to strengthen its viability through the challenges of an economic downturn, increase management control over the business, and prepare itself for renewed growth.

Solution
Blue Sun implemented Microsoft Dynamics NAV to manage finance, provide reporting and business insight, and progressively support all aspects of the operation.

Benefits
Meaningful business insight and compelling visibility
Strategic focus with low technology ownership cost
Scalable to support clean-tech resurgence

Partner(s)
Radiant Technologies

Software and Services
Microsoft Dynamics NAV

Vertical Industries
Oil Refining Industry

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Microsoft seeks to leverage midmarket ERP (NEWS)

IDG News Service - Microsoft can't boast the ERP (enterprise resource planning) application revenue earned by giants SAP and Oracle, nor equal their breadth of technological capabilities, but its tight focus on small and medium-sized businesses gives it an edge, according to observers and company officials..

While Microsoft does not release specific figures for its Dynamics ERP product line, annual revenues have been estimated at between US$1.1 billion and $1.2 billion, according to Ray Wang, a partner with the analyst firm Altimeter Group.

There is plenty of room for that number to grow, as midsized companies look to replace legacy systems or small ones seek out ERP applications as they grow larger in size.

"[The midmarket is] our sweet spot, and where our partners are geared up to sell," according to Phil Battersby, a director in ERP field marketing and management for Microsoft Dynamics EMEA. "We're not interested in the enterprise space. SAP and Oracle have been dominant in that part of the market for a long time."

Dynamics is sold exclusively through partners, who fine-tune and customize the products for specific industries, such as retail, manufacturing and services.

The partner-centric approach is crucial given the vast size of the SMB market and the fact that those customers typically like to deal with a local face,

Wang said.
And those partners can help Microsoft reach out to ever more vertical markets -- an approach Battersby said will be important to its competitive success.

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Microsoft Dynamics Webcast: Saving Manufacturers Time and

Are you looking to streamline your manufacturing operations and increase efficiencies across material requirements planning (MRP) processes such as sales processing, production scheduling, change management, quality assurance, and capacity requirements planning? Would you like to have your manufacturing systems integrated with Microsoft Dynamics GP? Attend this webcast to learn how an integrated Microsoft Dynamics GP manufacturing software suite can help you save time and money.

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Discover ERP and CRM software your people can actually use

Microsoft Dynamics ERP and CRM software works like and with Microsoft software you already use. So your people can adopt it quickly and work efficiently. Watch this video and see what your business can be like when everyone gets it.

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Microsoft Dynamics Video: Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2009 Product Demonstration

Jesper Lachance Ræbild, Senior Product Manager Microsoft. Watch a live demonstration of Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2009.

Microsoft Dynamics Video: Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2009 Product Demonstration