Continuing the previous blog post on some of the standard reports in Power BI: Backlog vs Inventory: This gives you a snapshot of what’s available today and what your backlog is. On the left-hand side, you will see the Backlog $ by Item and Customer and on the far-right hand corner, you have Backlog Quantity […]
Reporting with Power BI for Semiconductor Industry: Part I
Microsoft has been named a leader in Gartner’s 2021 Magic Quadrant for Analytics and Business Intelligence Platforms for the 14th 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 […]
Introduction to Tensoft Power BI Dashboard
Tensoft Power BI Dashboard pulls data from Tensoft SemiOps and DemandOps, and generates interactive and meaningful reports to provide great insights into your data. There are more than 15+ standard reports available, covering everything from- Bookings by Schedules Backlog Shipments Inventory Backlog vs Inventory vs Commit WIP Cycle Time IBOM Flow And much more… The […]
VIDEO: Inventory Value and Standard Cost
The following is a transcript of the video clip below, which was taken from the Tensoft SemiOps (previously known as Tensoft FSM) customer webcast entitled “Standard Cost: Theory and Practice in Tensoft FSM,” featuring Bob Scarborough, Tensoft’s CEO. This complimentary training was originally presented live for Tensoft SemiOps customers. Since the instructional material covered in […]
Current Trends in Semiconductor Industry
Over the last year, it’s become common knowledge that the COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted global supply chains – almost every consumer has been affected in one way or another. One of the things that happened in the semiconductor industry is that chip production for the auto industry fell off in 2020 due to auto factory […]
How to Overcome Challenges to Scaling Production Ramp
One of the biggest challenges faced by semiconductor and IoT operations and finance executives everywhere is scaling effectively and efficiently. As production ramps and organizational complexity increases, companies worldwide need to equip themselves early on to mitigate execution risks and the (albeit positive) chaos accompanying hockey stick growth. One of Tensoft’s recorded webcasts, ‘Challenges to […]
Top 5 Questions from Operations Answered
In this blog post, we have answered the top 5 questions that we receive from Semiconductor Operations on a Sales Call: What type of semiconductor companies have you worked with in the past? We have 20+ years of experience working with companies big and small in the semiconductor industry. Tensoft SemiOps supports fabless semiconductor, traditional […]
Strategies for Reducing Semiconductor Product Costs
For emerging semiconductor chip companies, the primary goal is to customer acceptance of products and to sell product. However, as chip companies scale, everyone’s attention turns very quickly to lowering costs. It becomes critically important that Operations and Finance work together to achieve strategic goals and to manage costs effectively. In order to do that, […]
Get Ready for Momentum 2.0, Tensoft’s Online User Conference for Customers
We are excited to announce Momentum 2.0, Fall 2021! It will be held on September 21 & 22 and sessions will be distributed over two half-days. What is Momentum 2.0? Momentum 2.0 is Tensoft’s online user conference hosted exclusively for Tensoft customers. It brings two days of complimentary training straight from the product experts. The […]
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: […]