Microsoft Business Solutions for Manufacturing

Updated: November 14, 2005

In a manufacturing business, competing successfully requires you to make compelling, high-quality products in the most cost-effective and productive manner, and take them to the right markets at the right time. When you implement a Microsoft manufacturing solution, you enable your business to accomplish best results consistently. Microsoft Business Solutions for Manufacturing helps you build a streamlined, efficient manufacturing operation and integrate it with the rest of your business, so you can consistently satisfy customers and adjust quickly to changing market and business requirements.

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Run an integrated, efficient operationRun an integrated, efficient operation
Make the products your customers wantMake the products your customers want
Control your business and outperform the competitionControl your business and outperform the competition
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Run an integrated, efficient operation

Microsoft manufacturing solutions help you control all aspects of your manufacturing business—materials planning, quality management, order processing, job costing, and more. Streamline your manufacturing processes for best performance, and connect them to your financial management, distribution, sales, customer relationship management, and other lines of business in your organization. Microsoft manufacturing solutions can help your teams and resources perform at their highest efficiency and cost-effectiveness in a smoothly managed, transparent operation.

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Make the products your customers want

Customer preferences can shift quickly, and you want to respond to them promptly and with good economy. You may also want to develop and introduce innovative products and ensure that they fulfill customers’ expectations. With the assistance of Microsoft manufacturing solutions, you can give your manufacturing processes the agility to accommodate rapid changes in demand, product configuration, or product recipes. Microsoft manufacturing solutions also can help you practice effective, well-documented quality control and maintain a consistently high level of product quality.

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Control your business and outperform the competition

Planning and directing a manufacturing business tends to involve high financial and operational risk, along with the need to make far-reaching decisions in full confidence. Microsoft manufacturing solutions give you a powerful framework for measuring your business performance against goals, analyzing all important factors in planning and forecasting, and arriving at sound business decisions in a reasonable timeframe. Even better, these Microsoft software tools are easy to learn and have the flexibility to adjust to your unique business environment, so your executives and managers can concentrate on running the manufacturing operation in the way that yields the best results.

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Solutions

Microsoft Business Solutions for Manufacturing–Axapta

Microsoft Business Solutions for Manufacturing–Great Plains

Microsoft Business Solutions for Manufacturing–Navision


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