Microsoft has been named a leader in Gartner’s 2025 Magic Quadrant for Analytics and Business Intelligence Platforms for the 18th consecutive year. Being a long time Microsoft partner and a provider of Power BI services, we are thrilled with this announcement. Tensoft has infused its solutions with Microsoft Power BI – built a link in […]
How Supplier Integrations in Tensoft SemiOps Automate Chip or Wafer Probe
At Tensoft, customer feedback is one of the key drivers of our product roadmap. We regularly gather feedback from customers and develop features/enhancements based on their industry specific needs. A recent example of this is setting up supplier integrations in Tensoft SemiOps to automate chip or wafer probe. Traditionally, suppliers treat the wafer and probe […]
Tensoft EDI Integrations: How Does It Work?
Tensoft’s customers sometimes require EDI integration as part of their overall ERP/supply chain system. (EDI is Electronic Data Interchange – a B2B standard that has been in place for a long time.) Some Tensoft customers require automated creation of sales orders and invoicing using EDI to deal with their customers. This is particularly useful in […]
What’s Missing in Traditional ERP Inventory Systems?
It’s not that traditional ERP Inventory systems don’t work for everyone – they just don’t work well for fabless semiconductor operations. Trying to make them fit is much like trying to force your left foot into your right shoe – you may be able to jam it in, but it won’t be comfortable or highly […]
Inverted Bill of Materials vs Consumed Material Model in Semiconductor Industry
Usually in semiconductor production process, we use an inverted bill of materials (IBOM). A wafer in the inverted bill of materials can become multiple different finished goods instead of multiple parts in a bill of materials all coming together to be built into a finished good. The screenshot below shows the inverted bill of materials […]
Managing Export Restrictions in Tensoft DemandOps
As you may be aware, several countries and organizations are imposing trade sanctions. Tensoft has a globally distributed customer base and so a lot of them need the ability to systematically track the export restrictions on their parts or businesses. With the upcoming release of Tensoft DemandOps, we plan to add a new feature that […]
An Overview of Production Planning in Tensoft SemiOps
With Tensoft SemiOps Production Planning, you can quickly and accurately schedule backlog shipment dates, drive creation of your production orders (“PR” or production release in SemiOps) and gain insight into action items for your planners related to production scheduling or exception management. All of the information that you need is already available in Tensoft SemiOps: […]
A Traditional BOM in Tensoft SemiOps
Semiconductor manufacturing typically requires a “one-to-many” production process where wafers move to die, and die are then moved through multiple assembly and packing processes to provide multiple outcomes from a single wafer. This is achieved in Tensoft SemiOps through an inverted BOM (Bill of Materials) model. An inverted BOM is an essential feature for systems […]
Tensoft DemandOps: What Does It Do?
Here at Tensoft, we’re always trying to find new solutions to handle the industry-specific needs of our customers. One example of this is Tensoft DemandOps, which we built based on customer feedback to deliver industry-specific functionality for semiconductor sales operations. More broadly, it’s designed to meet the needs of companies who sell through extended value […]
What Does Tensoft SemiOps Have That My Spreadsheet Doesn’t?
If you’ve been in the semiconductor industry for any length of time, you’ve probably seen some of the world’s most spectacular spreadsheets. You may have even created one of these masterpieces of supply chain planning and execution yourself. If so, our hats are off to you! The semiconductor supply chain is famously complex, so managing […]