Dynamics 365 for Discrete Manufacturing: Why do you need to hire a consultant?
Dynamics 365 for discrete manufacturing gives you much greater control over production, inventory, planning, and costs. Hiring a consultant for Dynamics 365 in discrete manufacturing helps you to identify the right modules, set them up by perfectly aligning with your existing processes, and then deliver the desired performance and ROI.
For example, Dynamics 365 for Supply Chain Management supports discrete manufacturing through capabilities like bills of materials, production orders, routes, operations, resources, and capacity planning. But how do you set it up the right way? How do you connect it to your existing tech ecosystem? How can your users use the system so that it makes sense for your business?
These problems are solved when you hire a consultant for Dynamics 365 for discrete manufacturing.
At Evolvous, we have been working together with manufacturing companies like you to design and develop solutions around their unique process, not just to fit a generic ERP template.
What Makes Discrete Manufacturing Different?
As a discrete manufacturer, you build products from defined components and assemblies. This means that your finished product will require:
- Multiple levels of BOMs
- Different product configurations
- Material availability
- Quality checks
- Production routes
- Machine and labor capacity
- Other factors
Now, in some cases, we have seen that discrete manufacturers manufacture the same product differently depending on the plant location, required quantity or customer requirements. This adds to the complexity.
When you use Dynamics 365 for discrete manufacturing, the platform can help you model these scenarios. For example, Supply Chain Management (SCM) can support different routes and route versions that can vary based on factors such as quantity, site or even production dimensions.
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How We Solve Problems as a Consultant for Dynamics 365 for Discrete Manufacturing?
At Evolvous, we have been supporting discrete manufacturers with Dynamics 365 consulting for around a decade. Here are some of the ways in which we help discrete manufacturers like you.
1. We Start with Your Manufacturing Process
You have invested in Dynamics 365 for manufacturing, but you are not seeing the returns in efficiency and cost-savings as you thought you would.
Why? Because you have followed a generic template.
At Evolvous, we don’t start with the application. We start with your factory.
Our manufacturing consultants work with your production, planning, procurement and other relevant teams to understand how an order moves from demand to finished product.
We move forward after finding answers to questions like:
- How is demand created?
- How are BOMs maintained
- What causes production delays?
- How are subcontractors involved?
This helps us to design a process that is aligned with your objectives, and not just what the platform can do.
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2. We Design the Right BOM and Product Structures
You are processing BOM through Dynamics 365. Are you just treating it as a list of parts?
Your BOM determines how your ERP understands the relationship between raw materials, components, subassemblies and finished products.
Now, at Evolvous, we help manufacturers design BOM structures that support your actual production model. This might include but is generally not limited to.
- Multilevel BOMs
- Product variants
- Component substitutions
- BOM versions
- Engineering changes
When you migrate thousands of legacy items, duplicate components and inconsistent units of measure are moved directly into Dynamics 365, it will create a lot of problems, even you have a AI-driven ERP like Dynamics 365.
As Dynamics 365 discrete manufacturing consultants, we create a cleaner a product –information foundation before we migrate the data so that such problems never happen.
3. We Connect the Shop Floor to the ERP
As a discrete manufacturer, you are never going to see real results if your ERP is disconnected from the shop floor, where everything happens!
You might be using different systems like ERP, MES, warehouse management systems, production sheets and more.
Our team helps you to determine which systems should remain in place and which should be connected with Dynamics 365 to build a truly connected shop floor.
Depending on your needs, we create APIs, Power Platform, Azure services and middleware if required.
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4. We Handle Migrations Without Any Hassles
If you are moving from your existing ERP to Dynamics 365, then that can be a major hassle. You have years of data to move, and if you are not careful, then things can go bad fast.
When it comes to ERP migration for discrete manufacturing, our team can help you assess and prepare:
- BOMs
- Routings
- Inventory
- Customer and vendors
- Open orders
- Item Master data
- Production data
We use proprietary systems and AI-enriched techniques to identify duplicate, obsolete and incomplete records before migration. This helps to make migration faster, more cost-effective and reduces the problems later.
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5. We Support Beyond Go Live
What happens after you have set up your system? Who trains your team? Who resolves issues?
To give you the complete peace of mind, we offer extensive support, optimization and user training. This ensures that your team adapts to the new system quickly and delivers the ROI that you want.
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Our Success Story: How We Unified Production, Inventory and Planning for a Canadian Discrete Manufacturer
The Challenge
A growing discrete manufacturer in Toronto was managing production planning, inventory and purchasing across a combination of legacy ERP functionality and spreadsheets. Production planners had limited visibility into material availability, while management struggled to get a reliable view of production status and inventory.
Our Solution
We began with a process assessment covering production planning, BOMs, routings, inventory, procurement and financial processes. We then designed the Dynamics 365 environment around the manufacturer’s actual production workflows rather than replicating existing manual processes.
The Impact
The result was a more connected manufacturing environment, with production and planning teams working from a common source of operational information instead of maintaining separate spreadsheets and manual workarounds.
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Frequently Asked Questions
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Is Dynamics 365 suitable for discrete manufacturing?
Yes. Dynamics 365 supports core discrete manufacturing processes including BOMs, production orders, routings, material planning, capacity planning, inventory and production execution.
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Do we need a Dynamics 365 consultant if the manufacturing functionality already exists?
Yes, particularly for complex manufacturing environments. The software provides the capabilities, but a consultant like Evolvous helps determine how those capabilities should be configured for your business.
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Can Evolvous migrate our existing manufacturing data into Dynamics 365?
Yes. We can help assess, clean, transform and migrate manufacturing data such as item masters, BOMs, routings, inventory, vendors, customers and open transactions.
