Liberating Ideas, People, Innovation and Opportunities

In today’s fast-paced global economy, manufacturers are facing demands like never before. Their customers expect products that are more customised to  their individual needs, the speed of innovation and new product releases continues to accelerate and the tolerance for error has become razor  thin. And if that wasn’t enough pressure, the Internet now provides buyers with more options than ever before. In order to thrive, manufacturers must deliver excellence. They must accelerate product introductions, create more agile shop floors and improve order fulfillment through intelligent connected operations. The following will explore seven emerging trends in manufacturing that will help empower manufacturers to increase their speed of doing business  and deliver excellence every time. Microsoft Dynamics 365 Manufacturing Emerging Trends eBook.pdf Open

At Microsoft, our brand promise is to build experiences that empower “people of action”, enabling them to achieve more in every moment. These are the people who wear many hats, play many roles, and want tools that fit their whole lives. Perhaps no one embodies this ideal more than today’s modern finance executive. What was once a facts and figures role is now evolving into a much broader and deeper position, with finance executives playing critical roles across a number of disciplines in an effort to drive corporate performance and make an impact across the organization.  CFOs and their teams now serve as  business analysts  who power the insights the entire organization depends on to grow and innovate. They understand that if they want their teams and organization to perform with excellence they must empower them with the self-service tools that surface meaningful insights quickly and accelerate productivity. This is why Gartner st...

Treading water. Fighting to stand still. Today’s operations leader feels the pressure. American productivity from the Third Industrial Revolution stalled in 2004. Continuous improvement programs and the focus on efficient, but silo’d processes, within plan, deliver, make and source are not yielding the improvements in the desired goals for operating margin. Stuck, ninety-percent of companies, struggle to improve the portfolio of balance sheet metrics of growth, operating margin, inventory turns and Return on Invested Capital (ROIC). Disappointed, shareholder activism reigns. What to do? It is time to have the  talk  with the corporate finance team. And, the board. To break the current cycle, there needs to be a conscious choice to take off the handcuffs and eliminate the barriers for process innovation. Maximizing the value from new technology innovation requires questioning the status quo. A Back: A Look Forward American productivity from the third industrial revo...

The industrial revolution we're experiencing now is powered by advancements that include smart manufacturing, robotics, artificial intelligence and IoT. What a visit to the factory shows is the scale of the production. The reactor vessels weigh around 800 tons once built and fitted with components. Picture: Alex Eliseev/EWN Manufacturing is a hot topic again, undergoing the industry's greatest change in more than 100 years. Domestic jobs have evaporated from many countries with globalisation, offshoring may be reverting to near-shoring and automation threatens to replace more workers every day. The way we build and deliver the goods and products that fuel our economies and our lives will never be the same. As Professor Klaus Schwab has articulated in his book, The Fourth Industrial Revolution, we are in the middle of another industrial revolution - our fourth. The first industrial revolution occurred in the late 1700s (factories), the second during the early 20th...

2017-6-26   82 min to read   Contributors       This topic describes features that are either new or changed in Microsoft Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations, Enterprise edition July 2017 update. This version was released in July 2017 and has a build number of 7.2.11792.56024. Note:  Dynamics 365 for Operations (on-premises) is currently being renamed. You will see Dynamics 365 for Operations (on-premises) referenced throughout communications and licensing guides. The in-product name that you will see when deploying the product is Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations, Enterprise edition. Both of these names refer to the same product. Go to the  Dynamics 365 Roadmap  to find supplemental information about new features and learn more about what new features are in development. Introducing Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations, Enterprise edition Users and developers will see an updated product name ("Microsoft...