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Garry Stewart
CIBER UK Marketing
Hi-Tech & Electronics for Microsoft Dynamics AX
High-tech and electronics companies face a unique set of challenges. Constant new technologies. Short product life cycles. Obsolete inventory. Complex supply chains. Multiple subcontractors and outsourcing for components and systems. To stay competitive, manufacturers in this industry need business tools that help them respond quickly to market shifts, instead of trying to play catch up.
Enhance Collaboration Across Your Business Chain
If your systems aren't integrated, you likely have valuable data "trapped" within separate applications. With Microsoft Dynamics AX, what were once isolated silos of information can now become powerful knowledge. And that knowledge can be shared securely via the Web across your extended organisation, including with suppliers, resellers, and even customers.
Timelier, more accessible information—for example, a specific product's location, demand, and life cycle status—helps reduce time to market, improve plant floor production practices, and increase visibility into and between production and supply chain processes.
Computers, Office Machinery, and Related Equipment
For companies that primarily design, manufacture, support, and market computers, networking equipment, data storage devices, and computer peripherals.
Companies that provide computers, peripherals, and office machinery face many challenges, including extremely short product life cycles, concern about overhead cost requirements, intense price competition, and the convergence of traditionally distinct markets and technologies as the industry enters a more networked world. But, if strategically leveraged, these challenges can present opportunities to industry players that can ultimately offer more computing alternatives to information technology end-users at a lower cost.
In response to the shortened life cycles of today's products compared with the cost of developing and manufacturing new technology, computer equipment companies have balanced their assets carefully to shorten their products' time-to-market while keeping burdensome overhead and operational costs down. Many traditional original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) and start-up companies in the computer equipment industry have been outsourcing some of their production to contract electronics manufacturers (CEMs) that already have low-cost manufacturing plants in the United States and overseas at key regional hubs. Outsourcing of production has enabled them to devote more time to developing next-generation products and keep up with cutting-edge high-technology trends.
Microsoft Dynamics AX (Axapta) from CIBER UK can provide customisable applications for companies that produce and distribute office products like the following:
- Computers
- Computer Storage Devices
- Computer Terminals
- Computer Peripheral Equipment (includes printers, plotters, and graphic display instruments)
- Calculating and Accounting Equipment (includes point-of-sale devices, funds transfer devices, and other calculating and accounting machines)
- Office Machines
Electronics Equipment and Semiconductors
For companies that provide specialized electronic instruments like circuit boards, semiconductors/chips, solid state components, household audio/video equipment, magnetic and optical recording media, and more.
High-tech manufacturers in this segment need to continually retool and upgrade processes to not only keep up with the velocity of technology evolution, but to outpace the completion. High-tech industry leaders, in response to market demand, are constantly pushing the computing power and size of electronic devices.
Manufacturers of semiconductors are in an exceptionally volatile market with intense rivalries. There's constant pressure to provide something better than what defined the state-of-the-art a few months ago. That pressure extends to chip equipment makers, foundries, design labs, and distributors. In addition, semiconductor companies have to successfully address long lead times, global coordination, and complex manufacturing processes.
We can provide comprehensive, customisable business solutions for high-tech companies providing specialised electrical equipment like the following:
- Household Audio and Video Equipment
- Electron Tubes
- Printed Circuit Boards
- Semiconductors and Related Solid-State Devices (includes general and special purpose semiconductor components and memory chips)
- Electronic Capacitors
- Electronic Resistors
- Electronic Coils and Transformers
- Electronic Connectors
- Electronic Components
- Magnetic and Optical Recording Media
Meters, Controls, and Photographic and Other Instruments
For companies that manufacture and supply instruments for metering, controlling, analyzing, and measuring, as well as photographic equipment and supplies.
The industrial and analytic instruments industry is highly competitive, technologically advanced, and needs to be globally integrated. Restructuring, consolidation, and mergers and acquisitions have become frequent. Global competition is constantly driving new standards of quality while reducing manufacturing costs.
Products in this marketplace are sophisticated, highly customised, and often complex. Low sales price, performance capabilities, state-of-the-art technology, technical support, and aftermarket service are all keys to success. To meet these requirements, you need to:
- Forecast demands accurately.
- Vary configuration of complex products, build to stock, and engineer/build to order.
- Manufacture and operate extremely efficiently.
- Bring products to market quickly.
- Monitor supply and demand across the entire supply chain.
We have the expertise and the comprehensive solutions that can help streamline processes, raise visibility across your supply chain, and maintain profitable margins for companies providing high-tech devices like these:
- Environmental Controls
- Process Control Instruments
- Fluid Meters and Counting Devices
- Instruments to Measure Electricity
- Measuring and Controlling Devices
- Photographic Equipment and Supplies (includes microfilm, blueprint/diazotype, and projection devises, as well as film, plates, chemicals, and supplies)
