6 Benefits of Microsoft Dynamics 365 for Manufacturers and Distributors

Even a few years ago, manufacturers used to think that optimizing productivity and boosting customer satisfaction should be done in isolation. However, digital disruption came into place and is slowly changing the way how manufacturers do business.

Cutting-edge technology and other important things are driving transformation and making changes across the organization to increase the quality of products, reduce time-to-market and meet the evolving needs of customers.

Dynamics 365 for manufacturing and distributors offer insights into the supply chain and manufacturing life cycles, thus making life easier for them.

Dynamics Business Solutions-DBS providing best services support to its customers when it comes to implement D365 FO and have developed in house the state of the art HRMS/Payroll solution Dynamo on top of D365FO.

It also is responsible for improving visibility and reducing costs. Dynamics 365 also provides insight on warehousing, delivery schedules, etc. Since it brings together processes into one comprehensive service, seamless access across functions can be maximized.

It will eventually boost productivity and profitability. Without any further delay, let us dig deep into the benefits of dynamics 365 for manufacturers and distributors.

1. Enable sturdy project management:

One of the first things that we should mention is that it enables steady project management. You might not know that for every $1 billion invested in the USA, $122 million is wasted because of poor project performance. Manufacturers need to understand and visualize costs, and revenue metrics.

Otherwise, project goals cannot be met within the timeline. Production performance power BI reports enable monitoring of the performance of all manufacturing operations. Reviewing, monitoring, and approving costs and time impacting various projects can be done through intuitive dashboards.

Dynamics 365 allows all of these along with enabling you with relevant skills with real-time visibility. Make intelligent decisions to make the most out of your resources.

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2. Visibility into operations:

Business excellence is generally driven by visibility into the entire manufacturing process. If you cannot visualize and integrate global supply chain data worldwide, you will never be able to understand end-to-end operations. As per reports, 94% of supply chain leaders say that digital change will fundamentally transform the supply chain.

Dynamics 365 improves communication between supply production service and sales, which in turn will help you witness better profits. You will be able to get a better view of all operations by opting for this (as it collaborates with departments and connects various business systems).

3.Empower your employees:

Empowering employees is extremely important as an entrepreneur or manufacturer because most people these days are unhappy at work. To build a great manufacturing organization, you have to empower your employees with the right tools and the right data.

They should feel that they are important to the organization. This way, the productivity of your entire company can be improved. Dynamics 365 offers access to role-specific tools and a holistic view of the business.

By connecting the structured workflow of your company processes with unstructured work of collaboration, you can achieve better productivity.

Only your employees can boost your efficiency and that can be done through employee attraction, development, retention, and engagement.

4. Improve productivity:

Productivity is all about creating value in whatever you do. Manufacturing productivity is related to the consolidated view of operation as well as access to virtual reality tools.

This is done to monitor and solve issues remotely. Costly engagements can be minimized while productivity can be achieved if tasks are coordinated and leveraged accordingly.

Office 365 tools enable creating customized sales documents.

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5. Focus on your field game:

Since manufacturing depends a lot on technicians, identifying the requirement of a particular product and using the right workflows for the same helps in supplying the right goods at the right time to the required field service agent.

Product catalogs can offer a list of available products with purchasing workflows, necessary approvals, budget fund allocations, etc.

While interactive schedule boards can manage resource assignments across multiple work orders, real-time updates provide greater visibility and an accurate view of buying cycle. This also ensures that procurement stays within suggested quantity and price levels.

If you have the access to real-time visibility and forecasting, field service agents can synchronize and track inventory. Embedded intelligence reflects relevant conversation and allows field sales to find the right opportunities

6. Provide personalized service:

Manufacturing businesses thrive on providing customers with better feasibility. Enriched customer service is key to success and delivering value-added customer service is what they look for.

Technicians can take action ahead of time to eradicate service issues by analyzing data from connected devices. Customer services can be improved through online forums, service, and social listening.

With a holistic view of customer journey, technicians can anticipate requirements better and in a more personalized way. DBS’s team of experts are providing best services to its customers related to D365 FO.

Conclusion:

To wrap it up, you need to leverage Microsoft Dynamics 365 to fill the gaps between ERP and CRM systems.

It aids manufacturers with the tools they need to boost the speed of doing business and come up with better products. It brings together several aspects of the manufacturing life cycle.

It utilizes rich analytics, embedded intelligence, and convenience. This can improve business productivity and help them deliver customize service.

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