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 […]
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 […]
Semiconductor Industry Revenue and Variable Consideration
Semiconductor Industry Revenue The value chain in the Semiconductor Industry can have companies selling directly to end customers for their products, or through distribution and contract manufacturing channels to reach your end customer. When you are selling through an extended value chain the end price for the product sold may not be known at […]
Get to Know the DemandOps APIs
In a previous blog post, we covered some of the APIs in Tensoft SemiOps. Here is a list of Tensoft DemandOps APIs that you may find useful. GetBookings. This is a listing of bookings by customer and sales order. Bookings is the net change in a sales order value. For example, you book an order […]
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 […]
Overview of Microsoft Power BI
Tensoft hosted a customer- exclusive webinar “Reporting with Microsoft Power BI” at Momentum 2.0. This webcast provided a brief overview of Microsoft Power BI and a quick demo on setting up some data sources from Tensoft applications like SemiOps and DemandOps, and Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central. Below is a partial transcription of this presentation: […]
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 […]
An Introduction to Standard Costing in the Technology Industry
[The following is a partial transcription of the beginning of a recorded Tensoft SemiOps training webcast, which is available to anyone who’s interested – see video here.] “While semiconductor manufacturing is a process, it also has fixed outcomes, which makes it unique. So it’s not really process manufacturing like food, oil and gas, or paint […]
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 […]
Tensoft SemiOps: A Solid Semiconductor Operations Management Platform
From operations management to scalability, hear how Tensoft SemiOps helped Efficient Power Conversion, a GaN semiconductor company based in California. Massimo Marabotti, the CFO of EPC, recently joined us for video interview to share how Tensoft SemiOps fits their business model well. Watch the case study video or read the transcript below: “My name is […]