We are excited to return to Hannover Messe in users this year between May 30, 2022 and June 2, 2022. The pandemic has been a challenge for top brands and there are still many persistent challenges. We know that several emerging trends are critical to the good fortune of brands in their operation in 2022 and beyond.
At this year’s Hannover Messe, we’ll show how Microsoft Dynamics 365 is helping manufacturers:
According to a study commissioned by Forrester Consulting, more than 30% of production leaders face visibility issues similar to stock of raw materials, in-process paints, and finished products in paints in the distribution network. 1 Manufacturers are bringing a knowledge-based technique into operations. , resulting in procedural improvements and more specific formulas. However, one-third of respondents noted that their organizations struggle to analyze and apply knowledge to drive business and procedural improvements.
Visibility into all operations is only useful if brands can use this knowledge to drive action, hence the importance of improving visibility and awareness. Manufacturers are also willing to triumph over interruptions in distribution. Nearly a portion (48%) of industry leaders expect to accumulate disruptions in distribution, such as lack of operator availability. 1 Fluctuations in demand are at their peak and therefore flexibility is critical to meeting this demand for on-time visitor conversion. However, this cannot be at the expense of the exhausted front – frontline workers. It is imperative in processes and situations for frontline employees.
Finally, environmental sustainability is a developing priority that production leaders will have to face in the supply chain. Nearly a quarter of executives have advanced sustainability measures as their top virtual transformation hub. As brands transform, about 30% expect environmental relief to have an effect on them as a result of their transformation efforts. 1
It’s no secret that production operations have faced, and continue to deal with, multiple resources of scarcity and constant disruptions. Whether it’s port congestion, shipping delays, curtain shortages and hard work, or giant, unforeseen fluctuations in visitor demand, today’s demanding situations are as varied as they are persistent. However, those demanding situations have also resulted in cutting-edge responses that can provide brands and suppliers with the skill for their operations and triumph over hard work shortages and skills gaps.
Robotics and automation are an attractive opportunity in this regard, generating goodwill among industry professionals and leading to increased investment. Most industry leaders believe that automation will have a positive effect on their industry. Meanwhile, the number of robots sold in North America grew 28% in 2021, setting a record of about $2 billion in sales. 2 These issues provide the context for our first paint transformation innovation that is helping brands and suppliers triumph over the hard-working shortage: robotics storage.
Dynamics 365 Supply Chain Management is designed to integrate robots into the automation of storage functions. This ability to integrate and automate robots allows organizations to temporarily configure and dismantle transient and flexible storage functions closer to their production sites. Ultimately, those inventions allow corporations to take over complex storage functions, warehouse productivity, and triumph over the scarcity of hard work.
Contributing to the hard work shortages brands face is the retirement of a highly professional and skilled workforce and, to a lesser extent, the general abandonment as staff move on to other functions or companies. The learning curve for new team members in a production environment can be steep and challenging due to the complexity of the many processes and machines you want to use. This can particularly disrupt overall operations.
A key innovation that is helping brands triumph over the hard work shortage and fill the skills gap is the application of combined truth to drive the onboarding of new workers and temporarily the skills of existing team members. According to Forrester Total Economic Impact (TEI) In a study commissioned through Microsoft, production corporations that implemented combined truth responses reduced education time by 75%, saving an average of $30 per hour of work. 3
With Microsoft’s combined truth solutions, which add Dynamics 365 Guides, HoloLens 2, and Dynamics 365 Remote Assist, brands can deliver interactive learning reports that increase workforce power and flexibility and workforce protection by offering hands-free work commands directly in the vision box. when the task runs. Let’s look at how Toyota Motor North America leverages the power and scalability of operations and education with Microsoft’s combined truth solutions.
Want to learn more about how to perform office consulting or the benefits of real applications combined in manufacturing?directing work with combined truth.
When organizations are slow to digitize, they lack the visibility to expect an outage. They also lack the perspective and agility to proactively mitigate those disruptions. At Hannover Messe, we’re showcasing our latest investments in Dynamics 365 that end visibility into your origin chain and shop floor, enable flexible real-time scheduling, and optimize and automate execution across seamlessly orchestrated business processes to proactively mitigate constraints.
These investments in Dynamics 365 evolved to help brands become a composable business. The capabilities are designed to be interoperable with the manufacturer’s existing source chain generation infrastructure. They unify knowledge of disparate systems and leverage artificial intelligence to generate actionable insights. With Microsoft Teams built into Dynamics 365’s origin chain portfolio, it runs in combination to succeed in consensus with internal team members and external partners is easier, faster, and near real-time.
Manufacturers can still load new lines of profits by moving from constant to recurring profits by loading new service offerings. Dynamics 365 chain control works seamlessly with Dynamics 365 Field Service so brands can proactively forecast and manage their customers’ assets.
Dynamics 365 can also integrate with other third-party production execution systems. This allows brands to unify real-time knowledge among other systems and contextualize the transaction knowledge they gain from business resource creation (ERP) plans and the time series knowledge they gain from production. to proactively look for inefficiencies and quality issues so that you can improve the overall power of the equipment. Ultimately, those inventions enable brands to create and manage more agile and connected factories and more resilient supply chains.
Manufacturers have worked diligently to minimize waste since the rise of lean production techniques. Today, as the world, governments and customers increasingly focus on sustainability, brands are driven to reduce another form of waste: carbon dioxide (CO2). The main initiative in which brands are investing globally is the circular economy or circular production. This allows customers to recycle products seamlessly. By implementing opposing logistics flows that allow customers to recycle products, brands can not only drive a more sustainable long-term aligned with converting customer expectations, but they can also save money through recycled fabrics to produce new products.
Dynamics 365 Supply Chain Management provides organizations with the platform and equipment to design production systems, processes, and products for reuse, minimize waste and emissions, and introduce new revenue streams like subscriptions and buyback programs. At Microsoft, we use those answers to deliver on our commitment to zero waste and zero-carbon operations. Our pilot initiative is the Microsoft Circular Centers program, which simplifies the reuse and recycling of servers and hardware within our knowledge centers. To date, the Circular Centers program has reduced carbon emissions through 14,500 metric tons of CO2 equivalent.
With sustainability at the heart of Microsoft’s concerns, we are also pleased to announce the general availability of Microsoft Cloud for Sustainability on June 1, 2022. Cloud for Sustainability responses, as Sustainability Manager, enable organizations to better manage their environmental footprint, integrate sustainability at their price. chain, and make strategic commercial investments that generate more price.
To learn more about methods to triumph over disruptions and shortages, while sustainability through circular production methods and the cloud for sustainability solutions, stop at Hannover Messe.
Check in at Hannover Messe and stop at Microsoft Hall’s booth four, booth E3four, where you can sign up for e-book tours and meetings with production executives and Microsoft experts to talk about how Microsoft Cloud for Manufacturing combines Microsoft Azure, Microsoft 365, Microsoft Dynamics 365, and Microsoft Power Platform features that help:
Register at the Microsoft booth.
We’ll also introduce Dynamics 365 Customer Service, which delivers a self-service, anytime, anywhere experience for manufacturers.
Want to learn more about the transformation of the production supply chain in 2022?Check out our recent eBook: Six Trends Shaping Supply Chain Transformation for Manufacturers.
Sources:
1A commissioned study conducted through Forrester Consulting on behalf of Microsoft. March 2022: Creating a more resilient long term for brands through virtual transformation
2Association for Advancing Automation (A3), 2022. Robot sales in North America had the most powerful year in history in 2021
3Forrester. The Total Economic Impact™ of Mixed Reality using Microsoft HoloLens 2, ordered through Microsoft
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