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 […]
Integrating Microsoft Dynamics 365 Sales with Tensoft DemandOps
Tensoft Cloud Platform is designed specifically for the semiconductor industry and it supports two primary business processes, quote to invoice and procure to pay. The quote to invoice is the sales order management process where you are selling products to end customers and expecting payments from them. Procure to pay is the manufacturing & inventory […]
Boost Audit Compliance with Shipping & Invoicing Date Controls in Tensoft
Last month, Tensoft introduced powerful new features like shipping date controls and invoice date limits to help businesses enforce transaction boundaries and meet audit requirements with ease. What Are Shipping and Invoice Date Controls? These new features allow organizations to define a fixed window of acceptable transaction dates for shipping and invoicing activities: Shipping Date […]
An Overview of Inventory Transfers in Tensoft SemiOps
In Tensoft SemiOps, there are three types of inventory transfers – regular transfer, issue and inventory disposition. Transfer: A transfer is used for transferring inventory from one location to another in either an available or quarantine status. Above is a screenshot of the transfer screen. Here you have the Transaction Date where you can select […]
How Supplier Integrations in Tensoft SemiOps Automate Chip or Wafer Probe
At Tensoft, customer feedback is one of the key drivers of our product roadmap. We regularly gather feedback from customers and develop features/enhancements based on their industry specific needs. A recent example of this is setting up supplier integrations in Tensoft SemiOps to automate chip or wafer probe. Traditionally, suppliers treat the wafer and probe […]
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 […]
Managing Export Restrictions in Tensoft DemandOps
As you may be aware, several countries and organizations are imposing trade sanctions. Tensoft has a globally distributed customer base and so a lot of them need the ability to systematically track the export restrictions on their parts or businesses. With the upcoming release of Tensoft DemandOps, we plan to add a new feature that […]
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 […]
Operations Dashboard in Tensoft DemandOps
In DemandOps, we have introduced a new Operations Dashboard to provide you with a quick snapshot of your business. The three pages in the dashboard– Key ratios view, Revenue view and Top 10 view – provide visibility into your sales operations and the opportunity to improve your internal business processes to streamline the entire order […]
Capabilities of Packing Slip in Tensoft SemiOps
Packing slip in SemiOps uses five distinct items – order number, ship from location, ship to location, ship date and the ship method. Sometimes, you may need to update the shipping details of an order. You may have an order that was set to ship from a location based off of what’s on the purchase […]