Supply Chain solutions for manufacturing Manufacturing supply chains reach far beyond the boundaries of a single company's plant floor operation, organization, and geography. They operate globally, beginning with suppliers and extending to business partners that include transportation firms, outsource manufacturers, sales channels, and customers. Supply chain management solutions from Microsoft and its extensive partner network address the realities of today's complex global supply chains. They provide a foundation for people to transform and improve their supply chains, moving them into more demand-driven models. Global manufacturing companies are already leveraging the Microsoft environment to empower people to solve business problems. Their experience demonstrates the positive impact of the Microsoft environment on supply chain performance in four major areas: performance, collaboration, planning, and execution. Supply Chain technologiesThese easy-to-adopt Microsoft technologies, in combination with solutions from the extensive Microsoft partner ecosystem, empower your people to transform and improve your supply chain, making it more demand-driven, adaptive, responsive, and efficient. | • | Microsoft BizTalk Server
BizTalk Server coordinates and transfers information among all trading partners, including directing data flows transferred by electronic data interchange (EDI) to applications or Web services. | | • | Microsoft Dynamics
Microsoft Dynamics, a line of integrated, adaptable business management solutions that enable companies to manage every aspect of their operations, can be used by manufacturers to extend their enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems to smaller subsidiaries in a hub-and-spoke model. | | • | Microsoft .NET Framework
.NET Framework, the Microsoft Web services strategy for connecting information, people, systems, and devices, supports supply chain management technology from Microsoft and many of its partners. | | • | The Microsoft Office system
The Microsoft Office system is familiar to many users, making acceptance easier and reducing training costs. The analytical and communication offerings of Office provide more people in the manufacturing enterprise with easy-to-use supply chain management tools. | | • | Microsoft Office Live Communications Server
Office Live Communications Server provides robust, scalable, enterprise-grade instant messaging, as well as peer-to-peer audio and videoconferencing, extending real-time communication to partners, customers, and suppliers. | | • | Microsoft Office PerformancePoint Server
Office PerformancePoint Server provides all of the functionality needed for performance management, including scorecards, dashboards, management reporting, analytics, planning, budgeting, forecasting, and consolidation. | | • | Microsoft Office SharePoint Server
Office SharePoint Server, the collaborative platform solution in the Microsoft Office system, delivers reliable, real-time information. It also supports efficient collaboration within an enterprise, as well as across its value chain partners. | | • | Microsoft RFID technology
Microsoft radio-frequency identification (RFID) technology enables manufacturers with complex processes around product movements to use RFID technology to locate, identify, and track products automatically without requiring manual intervention. | | • | Microsoft SQL Server
SQL Server collects and manages supply chain information and provides superior analysis capabilities to drive supply chain visibility and enterprise performance. | | • | Microsoft Windows Server
Windows Server supports advanced communication and collaboration. Supported by XML Web services, it provides collaborative services, such as discussions, calendars, and document management, in a very secure way. |
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