Electronics Industry

Characteristics of the electronics industry

Electronics manufacturing enterprises are typically discrete manufacturing enterprises, with multi-species, multi-volume / single-piece production organization. Most electronic enterprises make production by orders, but still, temporary orders often occur, and sometimes require a trial of new products. Production orders are divided into small quantities of many varieties, or a large number of varieties.

The whole production process is not continuous; there are clear distinctions between the various stages. The production process is usually composed of many processing tasks to complete, and each task requires only a small part of the company’s capability and resources.

The production process route and the use of the equipment are very flexible to accommodate changes in product design, processing requirements and the number of orders.

All business aspects of the corporation put emphasis on project management. Contracts signed with the customers are treated as projects. And each project involves functions such as marketing, purchasing, parts, production and finance.

Industry management difficulties without SAP

• Management officials frequently lack the essential information they need to keep projects on track. Poor communication, siloed processes, and lack of records—all of these contribute to projects falling behind schedule and experiencing quality issues.
• Project budgeting can lack transparency and immediacy. Projects can easily go over budget, leaving management scrambling to take control of the situation.
• Departments, project costs, profit, gross profit and other financial data and statements cannot be generated in real-time. Calculation of such data and creating reports in various formats represents a heavy workload.

Characteristics of SAP electronics industry solution

• A real management solution
  SAP solutions support the most advanced international management concepts and practices. They bring together large numbers of users on the same set of integrated management tools, supporting the specific methods and business processes of the electronics industry. This helps electronics enterprise management personnel to implement management methods and ideas in order to reach international standards and to improve the competitiveness of their company.
• Truly integrated application solution
  SAP Business One electronics industry solution is a truly integrated solution. The program contains four parts: enterprise resource planning systems, CRM, business intelligence systems, and workflow management system.