Complete business solutions for discrete manufacturing operations
Discrete manufacturers understand the mounting pressure for more innovative and better-quality products, shorter product lifecycles and stricter compliance to safety and environmental regulations. An ERP solution delivered with customizations to your business by Rand Group can transform your day-to-day operations, help you overcome challenges manufacturers face, and deliver long-term success. Whether you’re in the business of manufacturing automotive spare parts, plastic packaging, machinery and components, or toys and furniture, Rand Group’s team of industry specialists will deliver a business solution tailored to your specific needs.
Run a productive, fast moving operation with a customized ERP solution
Discrete manufacturers that adopt a tailored ERP solution have the opportunity to increase production throughput, reduce production delays, cut costly inefficiencies, and improve the performance of their machinery and industrial assets. Rand Group’s industry and ERP experts combined with the power of Microsoft, NetSuite, and other leading technologies deliver connected systems with automated process and data flows throughout your manufacturing operation.
Rand Group is your long-term partner to help you address industry challenges such as improving agility, managing warranties, balancing changing supply and demand, reducing time to market, and more. We have been serving discrete manufacturing clients – from industrial goods and building materials to steel and oilfield machinery – since 2003, and are a certified Microsoft gold partner and Oracle NetSuite Solution Provider.
Deliver the perfect order each time
Automate order promising, allocation, orchestration, and execution processes so you can efficiently fulfill orders based on global inventory availability and business rules. Manage all of your orders in a single system with integrated order-to-cash processes.
Create a streamlined product lifecycle
Develop a shared and singular version of truth for all item master data. Implement an organized and structured method for handling product changes to reduce delays and go-to-market faster.
Use data to make planning decisions faster
Infuse your planning process with supply chain, sales, and marketing pipeline data to improve demand forecasting so that you can make smarter, better decisions about the future.
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8 new ways manufacturers can tackle the talent shortage
Manufacturing is an industry that requires a high percentage of workers with specialized skills, and a qualified talent shortage has been brewing since before the pandemic. There is no singular or simple solution for this problem, but there are immediate steps and long-term strategies manufacturers can take to mitigate the skills gap and help find and retain talent. Download this whitepaper to learn more.
White Paper
8 new ways manufacturers can tackle the talent shortage
Manufacturing is an industry that requires a high percentage of workers with specialized skills, and a qualified talent shortage has been brewing since before the pandemic. There is no singular or simple solution for this problem, but there are immediate steps and long-term strategies manufacturers can take to mitigate the skills gap and help find and retain talent. Download this whitepaper to learn more.
Customize multiple bill of materials
With a discrete manufacturing ERP, your team will have the ability to manage the complexity of various bill of materials (BOMs) in a single platform. Version control allows you to make ongoing changes to an item and set up different configurations based on the circumstance or location. You can also set expiration dates and phase out old components so that new components can be produced or bought.
Microsoft and NetSuite ERP solutions have the following capabilities to manage your BOMs:
- Create, edit, and copy BOMs, BOM versions, and routes
- Check for errors, including circularity
- View and verify sites the BOM versions are assigned
- Add, edit, and print BOM and BOM lines
- Run a cost or sales price calculation for a product variant
- Approve and activate product changes
Automatically schedule based on supply and demand
Scheduling is one of the most complex functions within manufacturing. This is why it is essential to have a solution that is tailored to your scheduling and production process so that each operation in the production route is assigned the appropriate starting and ending date and time, and that the materials needed for production are available when the operation starts.
With a single ERP solution customized to your industry and business, you can complete the following processes with ease:
- Schedule multiple productions in the order of their assigned priority
- Split production orders based on delivery schedule
- Schedule productions based on the capacity of the resources
- Produce an overall schedule for the jobs that are to be performed
- Assign jobs and operations to a resource or resource groups
- Manage and calculate scrap
Build production configuration models quickly
The need to configure a product to meet unique customer requirements is quickly becoming the expectation instead of the exception in both B2B and B2C relationships. For a manufacturer, the ability to support configure-to-order scenarios represents an opportunity to quickly respond to the needs of the customer, plus reduce high costs that are tied to inventory.
Product configuration is an essential tool in your ERP that allows users to meet and exceed customer requirements by providing access to frequently selected data by using configuration templates. It can save time when you configure items on sales orders, sales quotations, purchase orders, and production orders, and provides a visual overview of the product configuration model structure.
Industry-tailored solutions for discrete manufacturing offered by Rand Group
Rand Group is proud to offer a variety of ERP solutions built by Microsoft and NetSuite to transform the way you run your manufacturing operations. Our team will help you evaluate and select the best solution for your discrete manufacturing business, then implement and customize it based on your specific processes. Explore Microsoft and NetSuite solutions below based on your organization’s unique needs.
Dynamics Manufacturing
Dynamics 365 Manufacturing is a collection of end-to-end cloud solutions that help securely connect people, assets, and business processes. It is designed for midsize to large organizations with complex manufacturing operations.
Business Central for Manufacturing
Dynamics 365 Business Central is a cloud-based business management solution for small and midsize organizations that automates and streamlines processes, plus has dedicated capabilities for managing manufacturing processes.
Dynamics 365 Guides
Dynamics 365 Guides is a mixed-reality application for Microsoft HoloLens that empowers operators to learn during the flow of work using holographic instructions to get jobs done faster, minimize hours, and improve skills.
NetSuite for Manufacturing
SuiteSuccess Manufacturing by NetSuite is a unified suite to support manufacturing needs including forecasting, supply chain, shop floor scheduling and capacity monitoring, work order management, procurement, and fulfillment.
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