Chemical Manufacturing ERP Systems
Efficient integration of compliance, product development, manufacturing, and finance
Microsoft Dynamics NAV (formerly Microsoft Business Solutions Navision) enables chemical manufacturers to effectively manage formulas, quality, government regulations, production, and financial reporting. This integrated, easy-to-use system helps your people improve productivity, lower cost of compliance, improve customer service, and increase revenues. Delivered through a global network of channel partners, this industry-focused business solution integrates seamlessly with the Microsoft Office system to help speed user adoption and streamline processes across an entire business.
A Microsoft Dynamics NAV solution can help Chemical Manufacturers:
| • | Efficiently manage regulatory compliance processes and documentation |
| • | Automatically build MSDS (Material Safety Data Sheets) based on current formulation data |
| • | Manage an unlimited number of chemical formulations |
| • | Develop efficient production schedules based on orders, inventory, and production equipment available |
| • | Empower your workforce to maximize skills, time, and operational resources |
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Speed time to market and lower costs with automatically generated Material Safety Data Sheets (MSDS)
Creation and constant management of MSDS is an ongoing challenge. Multiple systems used for formula creation, production, and compliance management force manual processes to be completed every time there is a change in regulations or chemical formulas. Microsoft Dynamics NAV, in conjunction with our chemical industry partners, integrates this functionality so your people can customize MSDS formats and automatically generate them based on formula data. Microsoft Dynamics NAV creates 16 Section E.S. MSDS and enables users to easily meet ANSI, EU, WHMIS and other international reporting requirements.
Integrate chemical formulation with research and development, production, and financials
Complex product formulas and/or recipes can change frequently to reflect variations in material supply, product packaging, manufacturing processes, raw material characteristics, and product development. Microsoft Dynamics NAV can help you move beyond the manual records and spreadsheets often encountered in production and research and development (R&D) labs to integrate development directly with batch and formula management, inventory information, procurement, and production planning.
Your people can more effectively select or modify formulas, plan production, replenish inventory, and simplify quality assurance when they can track product-specific materials characteristics such as potency, shelf life, catch weight, classifications, lots, and units of measure. By capturing more complete information early in the product life cycle and integrating it into the order management and financial information systems, your organization can respond more quickly, improve accuracy, and gain insight for better, more confident decision-making.
Gain real-time insight to add value and adapt quickly
Link people and information in real time
With a Microsoft Dynamics NAV solution for Chemical Manufacturers, your company can integrate production, financial performance, compliance information, and quality insight from all corners of your operations. Manufacturers can quickly implement formula changes, rapidly deploy new processes, and interact closely with suppliers and customers.
Manufacturing and product development can quickly take advantage of market intelligence to differentiate products, build innovative partnerships, and create new ways to add value to your customers. Employees and suppliers gain simultaneous access to real-time data, boosting operational insight and empowering your team to:
| • | Quickly identify, organize, and assign needed tasks, decisions, activities, and analysis. |
| • | Coordinate planning, production, suppliers, and distribution of product. |
| • | Monitor quality, inventory, orders, production batches, and sales. |
| • | Manage manufacturing resources, customer accounts, billing, and profitability. |
Easy drill-down capabilities help ensure that details are never more than a few clicks away, even when working in other Microsoft Office system programs such as Microsoft Office Outlook, Microsoft Office Word, or Microsoft Office Excel. By easily defining roles and access rights for employees and external partners, you can control access to business information.
Collaborate quickly with less effort
Provide 24-hour access to key business information for increased efficiency, flexibility, and transactional speed. Employees, partners, and customers can rely on up-to-date information for better decisions, and the impact of changes can be quickly integrated into processes and partner operations. Give customers and suppliers self-service capability through the Internet without compromising information security. Robust multi-language and multi-currency support help smooth global business relationships and can ease financial transactions and reporting across locations or affiliate companies. A Microsoft Dynamics NAV solution for Chemical Manufacturers empowers your entire network to take advantage of new opportunities to improve value to your customers, and to lower your costs.
Boost efficiency to take control over costs
Create a highly productive work environment where sales, manufacturing, product development, regulatory compliance, and accounting processes are linked in a central database. With centralized data, you can reduce redundant data entry, lower costs of compliance, and help ensure greater accuracy and timeliness. Providing self-service options using the Internet can give partners access to key data and processes and help trim transaction costs, while streamlining customer support and supply chain activities. Clear market, operational, and financial insight can help you identify unprofitable activities or relationships, manage materials and resource costs, and plan more effectively for growth.
Empower employees for greater customer and market responsiveness
Outperform your competition by equipping employees at every level with reliable information they need to take full advantage of their individual expertise, time, production, and supply chain resources. With drill-down access to account data, contracts, supplier quality, and regulatory documentation, you can better pinpoint customer service needs and innovative ways to add value. With full access to customer specific formulations, order status, and account histories, your service representatives can provide fast answers to customer inquiries and respond to preferences for service contracts and billing options. Manufacturers can even modify customer orders at any point to accommodate last-minute changes, demand shifts, product substitutions, and formula innovations.
Build a competitive advantage with a knowledgeable business partner
Working closely with a Microsoft Certified Partner, you can implement the solution required to fit your specific industry and business requirements. The Microsoft global network of partners includes experts who specialize in solutions for the high-tech industry. These experts have the long-term experience to speak your language and understand your concerns, as well as familiarity with Microsoft technology and the open development environment, toolkits, industry templates, and scalability of Microsoft Dynamics NAV. With industry and technical know-how to answer your questions and guide your decisions, they can help you tailor a solution to your unique situation.With partner support, a Microsoft Dynamics NAV solution can be quick and cost-effective to implement. You won't get bogged down in complicated configurations or in an overbuilt installation. Microsoft Dynamics NAV solutions are easy to use, maintain, and upgrade. As a result, your management system will have the capability to expand with the success of your business.
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