Flat steel manufacturing industry

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Hi,

Please advise is Microsoft D365 able to cater the requirement of flat steel manufacturing company?

can anyone please let me know the implementations in steel.

I will be so thankful.

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Muhammad Ali Awan

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A.Prasanna 8,223 on at

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Just search on web, there are plenty of case studies from different partners for Steel, you can get some idea .

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Ali Awan 360 on at

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how to search?

i will appreciate if you could provide the link

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Ludwig Reinhard Microsoft Employee on at

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Hello Muhammad,

On the MS Appsource you can search for steel manufacturing addons

I did an initial search here:

appsource.microsoft.com/.../

In my home country there was also a specialized ISV solution offered by a partner that was recently bought by avanade.

I found only their German website (www.avanade.com/.../steel-and-metal) with their 'metails' solution.

Maybe try to get into contact with them to get more information in English language.

Best regards,

Ludwig

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Junaid Idrees on at

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Hi Ali Awan,

I have done couple of implementation in steel manufacturing companies in Middle east region. For sure you have to go for process manufacturing but there are some processes that you have to customize specially the cutting processs. Before we go in details, Can you please share some information, If i ask on high level, Do you receive steel bars/sheet/plates and cut them as per customer requirement or you bascially want to produce flat steel sheets and form them into various shapes by hot rolling then drilling, welding, Coating etc.

Going for ISV solution is defintely an option but that depends on your budget and there are other couple of factors but most importantly what kind of flat steel products you are dealing in your business and then decide accordingly.

I can refer to you a partner in asia (Pakistan), they have extensive experience in steel manufacturing sector:

www.systemsltd.com/microsoft-dynamics-ax-steel-manufacturing

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Ali Awan 360 on at

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Dear Junaid,

so nice of you.

we purchase Hot rolled coils, pickle them, reduce thickness major quantity is annealed and after that both type of products cut into baby coils and then packed and sell.

hope that i have cleared you as you already have very good understanding.

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Ludwig Reinhard Microsoft Employee on at

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Good morning Ali Awan,

I think trying to use the standard application is a good approach. Yet, when it comes to the costing part about the steel production things can get really tricky. I would thus recommend having at least a brief look at the available ISV solutions in order to avoid a lot of pitfalls.

Best regards,

Ludwig

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Ali Awan 360 on at

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Dr Ludwig,

Thank you for your expert opinion.

regards,

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Junaid Idrees on at

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Hi Ali,

In nutshell, if i define the process on high level, it will be as follows:

Main Raw Material: Hot Rolled Coils

Operation 1: Pickling

Operation 2: forming

Operation 3: Cutting

Finished Good: Baby Coil

Dimension:

Size: (300 mm to 1500 mm)

Thickness: (0.03 mm 10 mm)

Grade: xyz

Brand: zyz

As first step, I suggest to create a high level requirement scope document which should contain (main Raw materials, Semi-finished/Finished Goods, Main Operations, Direct cost element, In-Direct Cost element, leftovers, recycling & waste processes) and create a flow diagram like what is input and output and give it to ISV solution provider and request them for POC session so that you can evaluate exactly what are the major Fit/Gaps and then proceed with your decision accordingly.

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Ali Awan 360 on at

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Assalam o Aliakum

Dear Junaid,

Thank you for your valuable suggestion. we had completed our BPR (Business Process REengineering) through one of the big 4 firms here and we will follow the same steps.

best regards,

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Junaid Idrees on at

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W.Salaam. That's Glad to hear.

Do you need any additional information/help?

Please also help to mark the thread as answered if your queries are answered as well.

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