Manufacturing for Business Central
Streamlined Manufacturing: Efficiency and Precision, Redefined
Enter a new era of manufacturing efficiency with Insight Works’ comprehensive solution tailored to your business. Leverage the power of industry-proven applications, seamlessly integrated with Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central, to supercharge your production processes.
From the initial product configuration to the final shipment, our suite of applications caters to every nuance of your manufacturing journey. Streamline operations, enhance inventory management, and boost quality control. Insight Works empowers manufacturers to navigate complex workflows precisely, optimize resource usage, and ultimately deliver quality products to their customers on time. Experience the transformation to efficient and smart manufacturing today.
Intelligent Product Customization
Enhanced Planning Tools
Shop Floor Data Collection
Advanced Planning & Scheduling
Warehouse Mobile Device Management
Accurate Inventory Management
Quality Control
Comprehensive Shipping
Intelligent Product Customization
Simplified Manufacturing with Intelligent Product Customization Tools
Equip your manufacturing business with an intuitive solution to enhance your products’ customization and configuration process. Seamlessly integrated with Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central, Insight Works’ solution significantly simplifies the creation of production BOMs and routings, optimizes quote and order generation, and improves overall operational efficiency. Experience reduced data entry time, increased order accuracy, and a more streamlined production process.
- Streamlined Product Configuration: Harness the solution’s intuitive interface to add, configure, and modify line item options efficiently, directly from the sales quote or order interface.
- Automated Pricing Calculations: As products are altered, the solution automatically recalculates the retail price, facilitating accurate and effortless quoting.
- Configurator BOM Designer: Set up item categories, options, and choices and use the built-in BOM Designer to create items based on the configuration or modify existing items.
- Integrated Sales Quotes & Orders: Launch a configurator directly from a sales quote or order. This associates the configured item with the sales line, simplifying the ordering process.
- Dynamic Text Template Variables: Leverage replaceable parameters to create customized item descriptions, extended texts, and comments, enhancing the details provided to the sales team and customers.
Enhanced Planning Tools
Optimize Manufacturing Efficiency and Forecasting with Precision
Experience the transformation in manufacturing operations with a solution that optimizes processes and enhances visibility into forecasts and operations. This dynamic tool streamlines forecasting, inventory management, and production planning into a user-friendly platform, empowering manufacturers with precise, data-driven insights. Unleash unprecedented operational efficiency with this game-changing solution.
- Comprehensive Forecasting: The solution provides detailed and actionable forecasts for specific items, categories, or locations, utilizing historical sales data to facilitate informed decision-making.
- Smart Inventory Management: With key values such as safety stock, reorder point, maximum inventory, and reorder quantity calculated automatically, the solution optimizes your inventory control and planning.
- Cross-Location Visibility: Gain insight across multiple locations and companies. This feature facilitates strategic planning and resource allocation, which is essential for manufacturers operating on multiple sites.
- Optimized Production Planning: Assess component availability and efficiently analyze Bill of Materials (BOM) structure. The solution enables optimal production planning by offering a comprehensive view of the manufacturing process.
- Efficient Routing Analysis: Compare actual times recorded on the shop floor with expected runtimes and setup times. The solution identifies significant deviations, ensuring optimal costing, scheduling, and overall routing efficiency.
Shop Floor Data Collection
Unlock Unprecedented Efficiency on Your Shop Floor with Powerful Tracking
With the increasing demand for precision and efficiency in manufacturing, our solution meets these challenges head-on by harnessing the power of barcode scanning. It seamlessly integrates into your workflows, offering real-time tracking of your shop floor operations and accurate recording of rework time. Barcode scanning reduces manual errors and enables quick access to relevant information and resources, enhancing productivity and profitability.
- Instantaneous Data Capture: Barcode scanning provides real-time updates about your shop floor activities, facilitating rapid issue identification and resolution, leading to minimized downtime and increased productivity.
- Accurate Rework Tracking: Our solution uses barcode scanning to accurately track and record rework time. This allows for precise costing, identifying underlying issues, and developing preventive measures to reduce reworks.
- Quick Access to Resources: Enhance shop floor efficiency by providing instant access to vital resources like drawings, manuals, or documents through barcode scanning. This feature reduces idle time and optimizes workflows.
- Quality Assurance: Leverage barcode scanning for precise quality management, ensuring each output meets stringent standards. This results in fewer defects and consistently high-quality production.
- User-Friendly Interface: Our solution’s intuitive interface makes it simple for your workforce to use barcode scanning for tasks like job switching, time tracking, and task management, driving overall efficiency and productivity.
Advanced Planning & Scheduling
Achieve High-Efficiency Production Scheduling for Manufacturing Excellence
The complexity of manufacturing processes necessitates an effective, streamlined solution to manage production schedules and resources. The solution we offer assists manufacturers in optimizing production schedules, managing resources and constraints, and ensuring the timely delivery of products. Incorporating powerful features, it aids in minimizing production time, reducing waste, and increasing overall operational efficiency.
- Intuitive Production Scheduling: Gain full visibility and control over your production schedule. The solution uses a dynamic approach to schedule production orders, allowing you to make informed decisions and quickly adapt to changes.
- Resource Management: Seamlessly manage production order components and secondary constraints like labor and tooling based on the selected schedule result, ensuring optimal utilization of resources.
- Machine Constraints and Transfers: Define machine-specific constraints and establish transfer times between work centers, enabling smooth and efficient movement of materials.
- Inventory Balance Projection: Get precise projections of your inventory balance, providing you with the foresight needed to manage your production and inventory efficiently.
- Customizable Shop Calendar Exceptions: Set up calendar exceptions for specific shop schedules to accommodate any irregularities or unique requirements, further enhancing scheduling flexibility.
Warehouse Mobile Device Management
Maximize Manufacturing Efficiency with Advanced Warehouse Management
Achieving a competitive edge in today’s manufacturing industry requires razor-sharp accuracy, seamless operations, and real-time data insights. This is precisely what our solution offers. Leveraging the power of barcode scanning and mobile computing, it ushers in a new era of warehouse management for manufacturers. Streamlined inventory tracking, swift order fulfillment, and strategic decision-making are no longer a challenge but a given.
- Optimized Workflow with Barcode Scanning: The solution harnesses the power of barcode scanning to minimize data entry and eliminate paperwork, leading to significantly improved operational efficiency.
- Accuracy Ensured: By employing advanced barcode scanning technology, the solution minimizes the chance of human errors in inventory tracking and order processing, ensuring unmatched accuracy.
- Real-Time Inventory Visibility: With mobile computers, the solution provides on-the-go access to crucial data such as inventory levels, shipment statuses, and order details, enabling instant and informed decisions.
- Seamless Order Processing: The solution’s direct integration with your ERP systems, combined with mobile computing, enables faster and seamless order processing, thus improving delivery times and customer satisfaction.
- Scalable Efficiency: Designed with growth in mind, the solution easily scales to accommodate increasing data volumes and more complex processes, seamlessly adapting to your expanding manufacturing operations.
Accurate Inventory Management
Transforming Inventory Management for Manufacturing Precision
In an industry where precision is key, efficient inventory management can be a game-changer for manufacturers. Our solution transforms this critical task, combining cutting-edge technology and user-friendly features to automate, streamline, and optimize inventory counts. By integrating seamlessly with mobile computing and barcode technologies, our solution ensures accurate, real-time inventory tracking, allowing manufacturers to concentrate more on their core production activities.
- Automated Scheduling: The solution includes an intelligent scheduling system that automatically orchestrates your cycle counts, saving valuable time.
Mobile Computing Compatibility: Fully integrated with mobile computing devices, the solution allows real-time, on-the-go inventory management. - Barcode Functionality: Leverage the power of barcodes for quick and error-free inventory tracking and data entry, enhancing accuracy and speed.
- Flexible Count Frequencies: Customize the frequency of your inventory counts and the specific days they occur, guaranteeing up-to-the-minute inventory data.
- Calendar Integration: Plan your count days easily using the integrated calendar feature, ensuring consistent inventory management even during business downtimes.
- Job Queue Management: Automatically generate inventory counts based on your selected filters for items or item categories, further simplifying your inventory management process.
Quality Control
Elevate Manufacturing Precision with Comprehensive Quality Assurance
Our solution brings an innovative approach to streamlining your manufacturing process, enabling you to effortlessly maintain the highest quality standards. It ensures the rigorous inspection of each product and significantly enhances productivity, helping you meet your business goals with superior efficiency. From conducting in-depth inspections to establishing robust quality benchmarks, this solution provides the ultimate toolset for manufacturers committed to excellence.
- Smart Inspection Management: Streamline inspections and quality tests using intuitive and customizable templates, ensuring each product matches the highest standards.
- Automated Workflow: Simplify your processes with automated quality tests upon product receipt, production order creation, and more, reducing manual effort and increasing efficiency.
- Advanced Disposition Options: Automate inventory movement based on test results, including actions like ‘put away’ for passing products and ‘return order’ creation for failed items.
- Seamless Integration: Enjoy a future-ready solution that integrates smoothly with Warehouse Insight, enabling quality test execution on handheld devices without requiring additional licensing.
- Comprehensive Reporting & Scorecards: Gain valuable insights with advanced reporting options and vendor scorecards, offering a complete understanding of your quality control process.
Comprehensive Shipping
Optimize Shipping Solutions for Greater Manufacturing Efficiency
Addressing the unique needs of manufacturers, our solution revolutionizes the shipping process with integrated parcel, LTL, and FTL services. Our platform integrates barcode scanning, weigh scale functions, label printing, and shipment tracking, simplifying logistics operations. This comprehensive solution automates data entry, ensures accurate delivery, and accelerates shipping timelines, empowering manufacturers to streamline processes, minimize errors, and ensure on-time delivery.
- Complete Shipping Services: The solution delivers comprehensive shipping services for parcel, LTL, and FTL, providing manufacturers the flexibility to meet diverse logistics demands.
- Integrated Label Printing: Ensure the accuracy of shipment labeling with our solution’s integrated label printing feature. This removes the hassle of manual label creation and guarantees precise, professional, and compliant shipping labels for every parcel.
- Automated Shipment Tracking: Maintain complete visibility of your shipments with automated tracking. Our solution provides real-time updates, empowering manufacturers to manage deliveries and improve customer service proactively.
- Barcode Scanning and Weigh Scale Integration: Boost accuracy and efficiency with integrated barcode scanning and weigh scale functionalities. These features automate data entry, eliminating human error and ensuring accurate shipping information every time.
- Streamlined Workflow: Our solution centralizes all shipping processes, enhancing workflow efficiency, productivity, and overall operational performance in the manufacturing environment.
Accelerate Manufacturing Operations and Boost Efficiency with Ease
In the competitive manufacturing landscape, streamlining your operations is key to staying ahead. Our comprehensive solution empowers manufacturers to streamline their manufacturing processes effortlessly. With time tracking, simplified product customization, optimized planning and scheduling, accurate inventory management, and seamless shipping solutions, you can revolutionize your operations and supercharge your efficiency. Say goodbye to manual effort and hello to streamlined success.
Gain Unparalleled Visibility and Control over Your Production Processes
Take control of your production processes like never before. Our solution provides manufacturers with real-time data insights, giving you enhanced visibility and control over every aspect of your operations. You can make informed decisions and drive improved operational efficiency with detailed forecasts, cross-location visibility, accurate inventory tracking, and comprehensive reporting. Say goodbye to guesswork and hello to data-driven decision-making.
Ensure Superior Quality with Automated Precision and Control
Quality is the backbone of manufacturing excellence. Our comprehensive quality control features ensure that your products meet the highest standards. You can maintain rigorous quality control throughout your manufacturing process with automated quality tests, customizable inspection templates, and advanced disposition options. Reduce defects, enhance customer satisfaction, and elevate your brand reputation with our solution—experience manufacturing excellence with superior quality assurance.
Unlock Unprecedented Efficiency with Mobile Computing and Barcode Scanning
The future of manufacturing efficiency is here. Our solution leverages the power of mobile computing and barcode scanning to unlock unparalleled efficiency on your shop floor and in warehouse management. You can transform your operations with instant data capture, accurate rework tracking, quick access to resources, seamless order processing, and error-free inventory management. Say goodbye to inefficiencies and hello to a new era of productivity.
Seamlessly Integrate with Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central for Cohesive Manufacturing Management
Harness the power of seamless integration with Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central for cohesive manufacturing management. Our solution seamlessly integrates with your existing systems, enhancing data accuracy, enabling smooth information flow, and providing a unified platform to manage your manufacturing processes from end to end. Say goodbye to siloed systems and hello to a streamlined and cohesive approach to manufacturing management.
Want to learn more about Manufacturing for Business Central?
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