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D365 Manufacturing — engineer it, plan it, make it, cost it.

For manufacturing and plant leaders whose BOMs, scheduling and shop floor don't talk to each other. We implement Dynamics 365 production control across discrete, process and lean — BOMs and formulas, routes, production and batch orders, Kanban, MES integration and quality — and we name every component we configure.

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Coverage at a glance
Discrete · process · lean✓
BOMs, formulas, routes✓
Production & batch orders✓
MES integration & quality✓
Why this matters

Manufacturing lives or dies on the BOM, the schedule and the shop floor.

Configurable products, accurate BOMs, finite scheduling and machine-level confirmation are where a plant wins or loses margin — not in generic ERP screens. The production mode, the routing model and the costing method decide whether the floor runs to plan. A real manufacturing practice configures all of it. Here's what we deliver.

Coverage across the manufacturing lifecycle

Engineer, plan, make, control — module by module.

Engineer & plan

From design to plan

Product structure, configuration and the plan that feeds the floor.

BOM
BOMs & formulasMulti-level BOMs, formulas, co-products & by-products.
RTE
Routes & operationsOperations, resources, resource groups & capabilities.
PCM
Product configurationConstraint-based configuration models for CTO products.
MRP
Master planningPlanned production orders, pegging & capacity.
Make & execute

On the shop floor

Order execution and confirmation across discrete, process and lean.

PROD
Production orders (discrete)Estimation, scheduling, release, start & report-as-finished.
BATCH
Batch orders (process)Formula-based batch orders, batch balancing & potency.
LEAN
Lean & KanbanProduction flows, fixed & event Kanbans, line feeding.
MES
Manufacturing executionJob registration, shop-floor terminals & MES integration.
Control & cost

Quality & cost

In-line quality and the costing that makes margin visible at the order.

QMS
Quality managementQuality associations, orders, tests & non-conformance.
ECM
Engineering change mgmtEngineering products, versions & change orders.
COST
Costing & cost accountingStandard/actual cost, cost rollups & variance analysis.
AM
Asset ManagementPreventive & corrective maintenance of production assets.
The solution map

One manufacturing core, four configured pillars.

Engineering, planning, execution and control — every component built on one operations core, not stitched together later.

Engineer & plan

BOMRoutesMRP

Make & execute

ProdBatchKanban

Quality & maintain

QMSECMAsset Mgmt

Cost & analyse

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The differentiators

Manufacturing-specific configuration.

The settings that separate a serious manufacturing build from a plain D365 rollout. This is where we prove the practice.

Prod mode

The right production mode & BOM model — the signature config

Discrete, process or lean — and a BOM/formula and routing model that matches how the plant really runs. Get this right and scheduling, costing and the floor all line up; get it wrong and nothing downstream is trustworthy.

PCM

Product configuration (CTO)

Constraint-based product configuration models, attributes and rules — so configured products plan, manufacture and cost correctly without a part number per variant.

Schedule

Scheduling & capacity

Operations scheduling, job scheduling, finite capacity and resource capabilities — a feasible plan the shop floor can actually execute.

MES

Shop-floor execution & MES integration

Manufacturing execution job registration, shop-floor terminals and integration to MES / machine data — real-time confirmation, not paper travellers keyed in later.

Cost

Production costing & variance

Cost sheets, standard vs actual costing, cost rollups and variance analysis — so margin is visible at the production order, not discovered at year-end.

The challenges we solve

If this is your plant, you're who this page is for.

  • "Our BOMs and routings are a mess."A clean BOM/formula and routing model that matches the real product and process.
  • "Scheduling doesn't reflect the floor."Finite scheduling, capacity and resource capabilities so the plan is feasible.
  • "We confirm production on paper."Shop-floor terminals and MES integration for real-time job registration.
  • "We can't see true production cost."Cost rollups and variance analysis so margin is visible at the order.
Dynamics 365 Manufacturing
D365 Manufacturing
The road ahead

On AX 2012 R3 today? We move your manufacturing to D365 — protecting BOMs, routes & configuration.

Most plants on Dynamics AX carry years of BOM, routing and configuration logic. We re-platform it onto D365 production control — modernising shop-floor integration — while protecting the product data and process logic the line runs on.

See the upgrade approach
01
Assess the manufacturing estateBOMs, routings, configuration, MES interfaces and custom code reviewed; risk quantified.
02
Re-platform & reconnectProduct data migrated, configuration modernised, shop-floor integration rebuilt.
03
Test, cut over & supportPilot runs on the floor, a rehearsed cutover, then hypercare into business-as-usual.
Why Excel Connect Consulting

A practice that speaks the shop floor — not just D365 screens.

Component-named consultants

We tell you exactly what our people configure — BOMs, routes, PCM, batch orders, Kanban, QMS — not vague "manufacturing experience".

Domain-fluent SMEs

People who understand a multi-level BOM, a finite schedule, an engineering change and a cost rollup — the plant, not only the configuration.

Floor-to-finance thinking

We connect the shop floor to costing and finance — so what happens on the line shows up correctly in the numbers.

Building a Dynamics 365 Manufacturing roadmap?

BOMs, scheduling, the shop floor or costing — tell us where you are and a senior manufacturing consultant replies within one business day.

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