Why Manufactures are Embracing The Microsoft Dynamics 365 Cloud?

The manufacturing industry was among the first to adopt the public cloud, according to a research. From the start, manufacturing firms recognized the cloud’s value in providing scalable, cost-effective compute and storage resources for automated processes.

Today, manufacturers are increasingly turning to public and hybrid clouds to accelerate their digital transformation. The cloud enables them to access the technologies and tools they need, such as collaboration, analytics, and process automation. It also supports the achievement of goals such as increased productivity, consistent security and compliance.

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Microsoft Cloud for Manufacturing

Microsoft Cloud for Manufacturing in combination with Dynamics 365 is designed to deliver capabilities  that support the core processes and requirements of the industry.

These end-to-end manufacturing cloud solutions include released and new capabilities that help securely connect people, assets, workflow, and business processes, empowering organizations to be more resilient.

Four ways the Microsoft cloud and Dynamics 365 enables successful manufacturers to achieve their goals

Dynamics 365 Manufacturing Solution

Design and Training

• Build new products and services quickly.
• Centrally manage product information.
• Streamline engineering change management processes.
• Improve safety, quality, and productivity with hands-free work instructions.
  

Production and Distribution

• Meet changing customer needs by building agility into your supply chain.
• Get support for discrete, process, lean, and mixed-mode manufacturing.
• Drive sustainable manufacturing with connected factories using IoT and AI.
• Increase resilience and scale with edge computing.
• Fulfill orders effectively with Intelligent order and warehouse management.
• Manage inventory with real-time data.
• Manage production costing order wise efficiently
• Manage production scheduling, capacity planning and BOM
  

Planning and Sourcing

• Keep your line moving by anticipating issues with the help of predictive analysis before they arise.
• Plan production and distribution in near-real time with in-memory services.
• Use AI-enriched demand forecasting engine.
• Bring your data together from disparate systems like SCADA with low-code connectors.
• Simplified procurement processes with contract management, critical supply redundancies, and vendor selection based on historical data.
• Simplify and automate manual processes with low-code applications.
  

Asset Management

• Increase your level of resiliency by connecting assets.
• Enable predictive maintenance using sensor data and AI.
• Automate mundane tasks with robotic process automation (RPA).
• Enhance learning and onboard faster with mixed reality.
  

Sale

• Build trust and strengthen relationships with customers.
• Streamline and automate sales processes to sell new leads and identify opportunities with existing customers.
• Track relationship needs and relationship health with real-time insights.
• Personalize customer engagements across multiple channels to cultivate and maintain long-term relationships.

Service

• Increase customer loyalty by providing exceptional service
• Proactive field service including AI-optimized scheduling
• Real-time, remote support with mixed-reality annotations
• Omnichannel and self-service customer service