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Customer demands for fast deliveries and lower costs, together with increasingly stringent government regulations, create many challenges for chemical manufacturers. Add a continual need for innovative product formulas and recipes, plus frequent packaging variations, and the result is escalating complexity in all areas of the business, including development, purchasing, manufacturing, distribution, and sales.
Microsoft Dynamics business software provides powerful and flexible manufacturing, financial, and customer relationship management (CRM) solutions that support recipe management and efficient demand planning. Microsoft and its partners deliver systems that can help you shrink development cycles, respond quickly to customer trends, and comply with changing regulations. With the right system in place, you can improve operations, open visibility into the supply chain, and increase your competitiveness.
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Why Microsoft Dynamics for Chemical Manufacturers? |
Manage formulas better |
- Move beyond manual records and spreadsheets
- Integrate development directly with batch and formula management, inventory information, procurement, and production planning
- Automatically adjust formulas based on raw material characteristics
- Monitor yields by standards identified in the formula
- Track product-specific materials characteristics such as potency, shelf life, catch weight, classifications, lots, and units of measure
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Track production, quality and compliance |
- Implement full traceability with integrated information, comprehensive lot and production monitoring, and end-to-end transparency
- Support fast, proactive, and informed responses to quality variations or unexpected conditions
- Streamline QAC processes for monitoring, testing, quarantine, and product downgrading while supporting effective recall procedures
- Easily provide compliance documentation
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Connect and automate for greater efficiency |
- Connect internal systems and extend key information to your customers and suppliers
- Automate business and production processes, speed transactions, and gain insight for operational improvements
- Efficiently schedule production, define routings, and plan for co-products or by-products
- Capitalize on new opportunities as they arise by modeling production capabilities, and providing accurate capacity planning and associated production costing
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| Featured Solutions |
| Dynamics AX for Chemicals Manufacturers |
| eCommerce- Rev Up your Revenue |
| Microsoft Dynamics CRM |
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| Customer Story |
Chemtec is a group of 3 lines of businesses including specialty chemical manufacturing, chemical distribution and packaging for the personal care and house hold industries.
Chemsil Silicones, Inc. is the manufacturing arm and is a process manufacturer of specialty silicones to the Cosmetics and Personal Care industry for sun care, intimate care, hair care and color cosmetics. Products range from basic silicone raw materials to customer specific compounds and Chemsil supplies everything from innovative functional custom raw materials to patented specialty technologies |
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| Solution Overview |
Ignify implemented Microsoft Dynamics AX 2009 for the following areas
- Financials
- Manufacturing
- Purchasing
- Warehousing
- Production Planning
- Quality Assurance
- Lab Management
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| Benefits |
One integrated system across the enterprise providing functionality for chemical manufacturing, purchasing and consolidated financials. |
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Give people the information they need to succeed |
- Deliver a single, real-time view of data from multiple facilities and departments
- Provide centralized access to reliable, role-based information across your business
- Improve collaboration between internal research, production, sales teams and external associates
- Control inventory with real-time insight into production schedules, capacity, shop floor activities, and production costs.
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Next Steps |
- Contact us to schedule a detailed discovery or product demonstration or to request additional information.
- Fill out an assessment survey to get a quote.
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| March 12, 2010: |
| 11.00 am Pacific: Ignify eCommerce with Microsoft Dynamics ERP and Sage ERP demonstration. Click here to register |
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| April 24-27, 2010: |
| Visit Ignify at Booth #501 Microsoft Dynamics Convergence 2010, Atlanta GA. View Agenda and Register |
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| June 15-16, 2010: |
Ignify will show case Microsoft CRM for call centers. ACCE - Global Gathering for the Contact Centers, Booth #28 in Sheraton Hotel, New Orleans LA |
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| Feb 24, 2010: |
| Saflok (A member of the Kaba Group) – A leader in access control solutions servicing hospitality segments servicing to the vacation rental market, multihousing market, commercial, military and government facilities is live on Ignify eCommerce |
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| Feb 10, 2010: |
Port of Long Beach Selects Ignify and Microsoft Dynamics AX ERP to Drive Customer Service and Operating Efficiencies.
More info |
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