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, […]
Internal Production in Supply Chain through Tensoft SemiOps
We define supply chain as component sourcing from multiple suppliers brought together to build a product. For semiconductor companies, there are some components, but it is mostly about the process. The semiconductor supply chain is a series of process steps–often done at multiple locations and with multiple suppliers. Instead of procuring materials to build one […]
What’s New in Tensoft SemiOps
Last month, Tensoft released a minor update for Tensoft SemiOps. This update included enhancements and new features in response to user feedback. Shipping Updates With this new release of Tensoft SemiOps, you can modify certain data items after a shipment has been finalized or a financial transaction has been posted. It provides you with increased […]
How to Connect to Tensoft APIs with Excel and Power BI
In this blog post, I’ll cover how to connect to Tensoft SemiOps and DemandOps API’s with Excel and Power BI. This is highly beneficial for users who prefer to create their own custom reports or Power BI dashboard using raw data over canned reports. We have created a list of APIs – 12 for SemiOps […]
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: […]
Workflow Approvals in Tensoft SemiOps
Workflows in SemiOps is an approval system that can be set up in Production Release (PR) or Purchase Order (PO) for better PR/PO management. If you need management oversight of any particular releases or purchase orders, you can set up your workflow so that they go through the approval system before they are actually released. […]
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 […]
Astera Labs Finds Tensoft SemiOps Perfect for Semiconductor Operations
Astera Labs, a leader in purpose-built data and memory connectivity solutions, needed an end-to-end ERP solution to support their rapid growth and track inventory at lot level. After evaluating several options, they decided to implement Tensoft SemiOps. Recently, Nathan Willems, the Corporate Controller, and Alice Zhang, the AVP of Business Operations at Astera Labs joined […]
Tensoft’s Customer User Conference Starts Next Week!
We are pleased to announce Momentum 2.0 Spring 2023, scheduled for Tuesday, May 9 and Wednesday, May 10. Momentum 2.0 is Tensoft’s virtual user conference held twice a year to empower Tensoft customers. This is a great opportunity to discover some of the tools and resources to take your productivity to the next level. You […]
Semiconductor Industry Revenue and Variable Consideration
Semiconductor Industry Revenue The value chain in the Semiconductor Industry can have companies selling directly to end customers for their products, or through distribution and contract manufacturing channels to reach your end customer. When you are selling through an extended value chain the end price for the product sold may not be known at […]