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 […]
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 […]
Challenges to Managing Demand in a Distribution-based Model
If the customer on your sales order isn’t the end customer for your product(s), you may be a high tech company with a distribution-based demand model! While this is a great way to increase sales and revenue for your company, it can be challenging to manage your demand without the right processes and solutions in […]
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, […]
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: […]
Odata Connections: Microsoft Power BI & Excel
Microsoft Power BI is a highly popular topic during Tensoft’s Momentum conference. Below is a partial transcription of one such session that covered some of the API connections for Tensoft SemiOps and DemandOps. “First place we’re going to start is with our SemiOps APIs. What we see here at the top is the URL used […]