We often get asked, “what is the difference between production planning and production control in SemiOps” or “what is production control” occasionally. The distinction is important to look at how your team matches up to the system functional blocks and to help think through all of the required business processes that are required for Semi […]
Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Manufacturing in the Semiconductor Industry
Semiconductor manufacturing stands apart as a unique process when you compare it to other manufacturing processes. From a systems perspective, production in most manufacturing industries is either discrete or process manufacturing – semiconductor manufacturing can be defined as process manufacturing with a discrete outcome. Here’s what I mean by that. The semiconductor manufacturing process is […]
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 […]
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: […]
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 […]
Top Tensoft Blog Posts of 2022
As we wind down this year and start planning for the new year, we want to take a moment to share our list of top Tensoft blog posts with you. In 2022, we covered an array of blog post topics providing insights on the supply chain and ERP solutions developed specifically for the semiconductor industry. […]
Lot-Based vs Demand and Supply-Based Planning in Semiconductor Industry
Planning is, ideally, about supply and demand. Semiconductor supply is a flush of all inventories and WIP to all possible outcomes – to include multiple end products from a single wafer, to include other variables like binning or programmability, or whatever model you may have for finalizing finished parts. Demand is ideally forecast and actual […]