The email capabilities in Tensoft DemandOps utilizes visibility into scheduling and shipping to provide up-to-date information to customers. You can easily send email confirmations for your quotes, orders, shipments, and invoices directly from Tensoft DemandOps to your desired contacts. Firstly, you need to complete the setup for emails, forms, and contacts. Email Setup: You can […]
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: […]
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 […]
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 […]
Multi-currency Procurement for Outsourced Manufacturing in Semiconductor Industry
One of the best features in Tensoft SemiOps is multi-currency procurement. In SemiOps, there are two forms of currency – functional and procurement. The functional currency is the currency that SemiOps uses for costing, variances, and valuing inventory. The procurement currency is the currency that you use when you procure or purchase through the Purchase […]
Rework Vs Scrap and Bonus
During our Spring Momentum, we covered one of the most requested topics on ‘Rework vs Scrap and Bonus’, and the best practices to use them. Below are a few highlights from this webcast that you may find helpful. Rework A rework is a type of production order that allows you to move inventory through a […]
Three Tensoft Customers Nominated as Award Finalists for GSA
The Global Semiconductor Alliance (GSA) has announced its 2022 award nominees. We are delighted to announce that three Tensoft customers have been nominated as award finalists. Tensoft customers, Astera Labs and SiFive, have been nominated for ‘Most Respected Private Semiconductor Company’, and the third one, Kandou, is nominated for ‘Outstanding EMEA Semiconductor Company’. We would […]
What’s Missing in Traditional ERP Inventory Systems?
It’s not that traditional ERP Inventory systems don’t work for everyone – they just don’t work well for fabless semiconductor operations. Trying to make them fit is much like trying to force your left foot into your right shoe – you may be able to jam it in, but it won’t be comfortable or highly […]
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 model. An inverted BOM is an essential feature for systems to efficiently handle […]