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Implementation of Microsoft Dynamics Navision for a Construction Material Company
Company Profile
One of the leading Ready Mixed Concrete companies in India serves the commercial, industrial, infrastructural and residential segments of the construction industry. The company strength is its local leadership, teamwork and market awareness.
- Manufacturing & Selling Ready Mixed Concrete
- ISO Certified Company
- 3 Manufacturing Plants
- Process Driven Manufacturing
Challenges
- Integration with Weigh Bridge during the procurement and shipment processes
- Integration with the CNC machine software for the raw material consumption & RMC output data
- Automation of the Quality process
- Development of Fleet Management Module
Implementation Approach
- Seamless integration of Microsoft Dynamics NAV with the modules built to manage the specific business requirements of the RMC Industry
- Enable the customer to move towards paperless office
- Avoid manual consolidation of data by integrating all existing systems with Navision
- Best possible configuration of the system to meet all the business requirements
Solution
The solution includes automation of the Financials, Procurement, Inventory, Manufacturing, Sales & Distribution and CRM operations across the Head Office, the Manufacturing Facility and the Sales & Distribution offices. The solution summary is as follows
- Implementation of Microsoft Dynamics NAV
- Small but Scalable Vertical for Fleet Management
- Quality Management for the RMC industry
- Integration with Weigh Bridge
- Integration with CNC Machine Software
Microsoft Dynamics NAV Modules Implemented:
- Financials - Basic General Ledger, Allocations, Budgets, Account Schedules, Responsibility Centers, Change Log, Bank Management, Bank Reconciliation
- Sales & Receivables - Receivables, Invoicing, Order Management, Invoice Discounts, Tax
- Purchase & Payables - Payables, Invoicing, Order Management, Invoice Discounts, Requisition Management
- Inventory - Basic Inventory, Multiple Locations, Bills of Materials, Item charges
- Fixed Assets - Fixed Assets with Maintenance
- HRMS - Human Resources & Payroll
- Quality - QC Inbound & QC Finished Good
- Analytics – Dimension Analysis and Multi Level Authorization Workflow
Key Business Requirements of RMC Industry handled by Microsoft Dynamics:
Fleet Management Module
The fleet management module automates the fleet operations and also includes tracking the delivery to customers and tracking the operational costs of transportation (fuel, distance traveled and maintenance costs) of owned and leased vehicles. This module is developed as part of the standard Fixed Asset module, as the owned vehicles will be defined in the Fixed Asset module. This module is also integrated with the purchase module for lease payments for leased vehicles and payments on fuel, maintenance, etc for owned vehicles
Quality Module
The quality module includes the following:
- Quality Control Inbound: Receipt of Goods (Raw Materials / Finished Goods)
- Quality Control Outbound: Shipment of Goods (Raw Materials / Finished Goods)
This module also tracks the test results of the following:
- Fine Aggregate
- Coarse Aggregate
- Water
- Fresh Concrete
- Hard Concrete
- Admixture
Integration to CNC machine software
The implementation included integration to the CNC machine software to import the raw material consumption and finished good output data of the production system from the CNC machine into Microsoft Dynamics NAV. This data import is done automatically without any manual intervention.
Integration with Weigh Bridge
The implementation included integration of the Weigh Bridge with Navision to account the receipt of raw materials and shipment of finished goods into Microsoft Dynamics NAV.
Others
- Credit Sales blocking based on the credit amount and credit period
- Customer Complaint & Customer Feedback
- Item Price Approval
Benefit Summary
- Integration of all major business processes and the existing systems with Microsoft Dynamics NAV to avoid manual data consolidation
- Enabled the customer to move towards paperless office
- Better management of Fleets
- Automation of Quality Process