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 […]
Value of Workbench in Tensoft Revenue Lens
The workbench in Revenue Lens is a landing spot where all incoming documents come to be processed. They can come from an API or an Excel upload, or we can create a manual document directly into the workbench. You may want integrations to work perfectly, but you don’t build a system for perfection. You build […]
Five Key Benefits of Tensoft DemandOps
High-tech product companies that sell through a distribution-based model often require a demand management solution that captures and manages demand signals for the entire process from finished product to end-customer. Tensoft’s demand management solution, Tensoft DemandOps – a purpose-built SAAS application – delivers both. Of the many benefits that Tensoft DemandOps offers, here are five […]
Understanding Part Types Used by Tensoft
The different part types used in Tensoft SemiOps & DemandOps offer a lot of flexibility to end users to track and report parts, orders and invoices. It allows you to name and market the parts in a more customer friendly manner and be able to adapt to customers naming their own parts that are mapped […]
Tips & Tricks for Tensoft SemiOps Data Uploads
There are many benefits of using Tensoft SemiOps Data Uploads, especially when working with large volumes of transactions. The production module in Tensoft SemiOps allows you to create and manage production orders – along with managing your overall supply chain and production process. We call these production orders a “PR” (Production Release). Production orders can […]
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 […]
A Look at Three Phases in the Life of a Semiconductor Company
Continuing a thread started in a previous blog post, let’s look at the stages that Tensoft’s semiconductor, sensor, and module start-up customers typically experience. These stages can be characterized as pre-ramp, production ramp and production breadth. The ability to successfully navigate each stage requires a clear understanding of the industry issues and drivers inherent in […]