As a member of the manufacturing team here at Altico Advisors, I spend 40-60 hours a week (which sometimes feels like 24 hours a day) working with new manufacturing clients to implement the Microsoft Dynamics GP manufacturing modules, train, trouble shoot, develop workflows, write reports. Or, I’m working with our existing manufacturing clients to enhance [...]
continue reading...ERP for Manufacturing – Automotive Parts
How Microsoft Dynamics GP Can Simplify Landed Cost for International Imports
Calculating the total landed cost for international goods can be a time-consuming experience. Fortunately the Landed Cost capabilities of Microsoft Dynamics GP Inventory series can simplify this activity leading to a drastic reduction in the receiving and invoicing effort. This in turn can lead to more accurate costs, increased timeliness of information and better accounting [...]
continue reading...Elva DMS – An End-to-End Vehicle Dealer Management Solution for Microsoft Dynamics NAV
The automotive and vehicle industry is big in Michigan and other parts of the country as well – and it is actually going through some growth after many lean years of restructuring. So we are really excited about this great software solution called Elva Baltic Vehicle Dealer Management Solution (Elva DMS), which we are helping [...]
continue reading...What is Process Manufacturing?
For someone like me who at one point was unfamiliar with the manufacturing industry, it may be confusing to understand that there is more than one branch of manufacturing that produces different types of products. One in particular is process manufacturing. Process manufacturing is the production of goods in bulk that undergo techniques of being [...]
continue reading...10 Tips on How Microsoft Dynamics-based Automotive Suppliers Stay Ahead of the Competition by Reducing Costs, Managing Output, and Improving Accuracy
With Microsoft continuing to develop industry specific solutions, such as those for the automotive manufacturing industry, more frequently Dynamics-based organizations are relying on vertically-specialized Dynamics ISVs to complement their ERP investments. For automotive suppliers, they need to implement more flexible, powerful and responsive production systems to stay ahead of the competition. Understanding this requirement, Microsoft [...]
continue reading...How Automotive Suppliers Can Address Scrap Accounting Requirements
There is a step in a manufacturing operation before quality investigates a defective part for root causes, Pareto charts, and the subsequent corrective action in the Quality Management System. That step is merely to separate the possible defective parts from those qualified to move to the next step, or to the customers receiving dock. This [...]
continue reading...6 Must-Ask Questions When Interviewing ERP Implementation Firms
There’s more to enterprise resource planning (ERP) projects than selecting the right technology. You’re also tasked with choosing a firm to successfully deploy that solution. And when you consider the substantial cost and inherent risks of ERP, the stakes are high in finding the best partner for the job.
What should you look for in an implementation partner? What questions should you ask? Here are 6 questions to give you deeper insight into whether an implementation firm is a good fit for your project.
ERP Equips Distribution Companies to Preserve More Profit Under Pressure
Distribution companies are under intense competitive pressure to offer more value to customers, sooner, and at lower prices. How do you preserve margins in this environment? An enterprise resource planning (ERP) system, tailored specifically to streamline your operations, solves this challenge. Disconnected software systems, where the software in accounting, sales, inventory management, and other departments [...]
continue reading...Manufacturing Costs: Standard Cost vs. Job Cost Collection
How much does that cost? Do you really know? In most ERP systems, costs are collected against a job ticket that accounts for labor, material, and workcenter hours, and often G&A overhead costs. This sounds simple enough, but if you are a repetitive supplier with a core fabrication competency, then your cost structure follows a [...]
continue reading...Blanket Releases… It’s About Supply Chain Management
Most ERP systems have sophisticated purchasing requisition and approval systems, but few have an order processing system that can manage blanket orders with ship schedules against the blankets. In a Blanket Purchase Order, a fabricator takes a customer order for, say, 20,000 pieces of an item but asks to take delivery on a schedule. The [...]
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