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Crestwood understands the challenges facing manufacturers in an increasingly competitive marketplace. Manufacturers are constantly looking to continue to improve their operations to produce more with less. They must improve efficiency and reduce costs, while controlling inventory, increasing production, and improving product quality.
Due to the increasingly global economy, there are now new and greater challenges to meet, including increasing customer service requirements and expectations, longer lead times for materials, more outsourcing of components and processes, and ever increasing price pressure from overseas competitors. The need to reduce production and operating costs to remain competitive has become an imperative for nearly every manufacturing business.
Manufacturers have improved efficiencies on the production floor by installing newer and more efficient equipment, utilizing technologies and processes to improve production thru-put, improving quality, and reducing costs. Businesses are also looking for new ways to improve the efficiencies of their back office operations in order to reduce the overhead burden, while still maintaining superior customer service levels.
Microsoft Dynamics GP (Great Plains) helps manufacturers to directly improve operations and reduce costs. It is designed to integrate and synchronize all facets of the business including production (including data capture), inventory, sales, purchasing, and accounting. It can provide for superior supply chain management in order to connect just-in-time production with suppliers, customers and partners. Dynamics GP can also help to speed and automate back office operations and provide the real-time, accurate information needed to make business faster, more efficient and more profitable.
Dynamics GP seamlessly provides the following manufacturing related functionality:
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- Material Requirements Planning (MRP)
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- Engineering Change Management
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- Capacity Requirements Planning
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- Master Production Scheduling
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Contact Crestwood Associates, your Chicago, Illinois, Wisconsin and Indiana source to discuss how Microsoft Dynamics GP can improve your manufacturing business.
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