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How can IoT Help in Achieving Excellent Automotive Product Quality in Your Manufacturing Plant?

Uncategorized / By Trident Information Systems

Today’s economies are dramatically changing, triggered by new markets, digital developments, increased automation, and the rise in modern technologies around the world. These factors have revolutionized several industries, and the automotive industry is no exception. People these days have become more quality conscious. Hence, pressuring manufacturers to provide the best quality automotive items at lower costs. Manufacturers seek the best IoT for Manufacturing such as a Machine Vision Application to produce excellent quality products.  

The automotive industry can expect consistent growth in the market. According to a report by Mckinsey, the automotive revenue pool will significantly increase and diversify towards on-demand mobility and driven data services. It can generate about 1.5 trillion or 30% more as additional revenue in 2030. This is a massive opportunity for automotive manufacturers. However, this opportunity tags along with various challenges. Among these, the most obvious one is – high competition.  

To stay ahead of the competition, you have to offer exceptional services and excellent quality automotive products to the customers. You can easily achieve this with an IoT solution for Manufacturing (preferably Artificial Intelligence based Software). A Machine Vision Inspection helps you achieve exactly what you need; excellent quality products at lower costs. This Smart Manufacturing IoT is designed specifically for you to cut waste and increase your staff’s productivity.  

In this article, we will discuss how a Machine Vision Application can help you achieve the desired quality of your products.  

How Can Machine Vision Application Help You Achieve First-Class Production Quality? 

To ensure the quality of your products, first, you need superior quality raw material and then ensure that the produced items have no scratches, breakage, etc. A Manufacturing Defect Detection Software enables the dimensional gauging of the precision machine components like transmission, fasteners, and other sub-assemblies. The Machine Vision Application ensures only those items pass through the conveyor belt that fulfills the quality standards.  

 AI-based Manufacturing Inspection Software like Vision Intelligence System by Trident 

Allows quality inspection in a similar environment. The best part is you do not even have to make additional changes to this IoT Factory Automation software.  

What can the Vision Intelligence System do?   

Identify  

The Machine Vision Application can read barcode labels, barcodes from the marked parts, direct part marks (DPM), and verify labels. 

Inspect  

This IoT in Manufacturing Industry detects dents, wrinkles, and cracks in any part of the item. It can further detect piston defects (mishandling and foundry defects).    

Measure/ Gauge/ Guide 

You can easily measure the outer and inner diameters of the O ring, the angle of the metal tips, and the positions of labels and edges with Machine Vision Application.  

Detects Minute Flaws  

You can even detect flaws that are not visible to the naked eye such as small dents, scratches, dust, dust, etc.  

Quality of the Glass 

The Internet of Things Smart Manufacturing software helps detect little flaws on the windshield like cracks, scratches, breakage, discoloration, dust, and so on.    

Missing Components  

Detect missing bolts, nuts, screws, wires, and so on at one glance.    

What Would You Get in the End? 

Defect detection is a tiring process, yet the most important thing is to determine the quality of your production. If you employ Machine Vision Application 

, you can get the following benefits:  

No Human Interaction Required 

With Defect Detection Computer Vision like Vision Intelligence System, you can leave human dependency behind. The machine does all the work itself demanding no too low human interactions. This is the best way to avoid human errors. 

Boosts Productivity  

When you employ a robust machine like Machine Vision Application for quality check, you get faster and more accurate detection. Since the process becomes faster, you can cut waste and produce more items in less time.   

Quick Reporting    

The best part of this technology is its quick reporting facilities. Whenever there is a defect, it flashes the alert on the monitor. Hence, prompting the concerned person to take relevant actions. In human-based defect detection, the same process is more tedious and time-consuming.  

The automotive industry has a bright future, and you, as a manufacturer, have a lot of opportunities. However, opportunities come with challenges. To stay ahead in the competition, you need to get AI (Artificial Intelligence) and IoT software working for you that supports you to provide excellent customer service.  

Vision Intelligence System is one of the most renowned Machine Vision Application in the market that helps you boost productivity, cut human errors and increase your ROI (Return on Investment) impressively. For further information, you can Contact Trident Information Systems. 

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Case Study – NOC Ethiopia

Microsoft Dynamics 365 / By Trident Information Systems

Established in 2004, National Oil Ethiopia Plc (NOC) is excelling in the marketing of petroleum products in the country. It is the first indigenous oil marketer to have distinct service stations located throughout the country. 

NOC markets one of the leading lubricant brands commonly known as Chevron-Caltex Lubricants, as well as contribute to a major share in Ethiopia Oil Industry. It supplies over 100 lubricant grades for Industrial and Automotive applications. Additionally, the organization delivers other petroleum products such as LPG, Chemicals, Bitumen, and Petcock.  

The business delivers services to keep their customers going by delivering services in the most cost-efficient and effective manner. Their team is divided into retail and commercial units to profitably market their products and achieve effective customer services and market leadership in the gas sector of Ethiopia.  

The business aims at consistently improving its product and service offerings while expanding its business operations in Ethiopia and other African Countries. However, their current system was unable to comply with their requirements. Hence, they decided to contact Trident Information Systems for a suitable solution. After conducting thorough research, Trident found its core challenges and requirements and believed Microsoft Dynamics 365 Finance and Operations will be the most suitable solution.   

Business Challenges 

The business was struggling with financial management and supply chain issues which included:  

Difficulty in figuring out the accurate volume of fuel transported in the truck.  

Tough time allocating charges on import purchase orders and knowing the landed cost on the inventory.  

Difficulty in allocating departmental costs and expenses. 

The manual approach to the regular activities caused redundancy and similar issues.  

Disparate systems and no real-time data availability hampered decision-making.  

Uncontrolled operations and compliances throughout the organization and vendors.  

Business Requirements 

The business needed a unified approach in the financial management of the business and required the following:  

To calculate the accurate fuel volume transported in trucks, know the losses and gains during the transit.  

To allocate charges on the import purchase order and to know the actual landed cost on inventory.  

Needed to identify departmental cost and expenses for actual cost allocations.  

Configure and customize the automation process for regular activities.  

Unified software solution for real-time data availability.  

Robust support of operations and compliances throughout the organization and vendor. 

Solutions Provided by Trident Information Systems 

After digging out the organization’s core challenges and requirements, Trident implemented Dynamics 365 Finance and Supply Chain. Other benefits the solution provided include:  

DIP Measurement Process- as NOC uses Dip Measurement to calculate fuel volume transported in the truck to find out the losses and gains during the transit.  

Insightful reports and dashboards on financial transactions with D365 Finance and Supply Chain.  

Enhanced Process Automation.  

Captured all landed costs while adding them to the Inventory.  

A centralized view on operations, costing, compliances, and inventory.  

A sophisticated vendor management system.  

Benefits to Business 

After implementing Dynamics 365 Finance and Supply Chain, NOC noticed a considerable change in their financial management and supply chain. Trident’s solution delivered the following benefits:  

The business could manage and schedule its resources in real-time and project costs accurately.  

NOC could identify the actual fuel volume transported in the truck to know the gains and losses during the transit.  

Their revenue was now managed more systematically and accurately.  

A centralized system for planning and project analysis could better control operations and compliance across the organization.  

Better vendor management and regulatory compliance.  

Advantages of Dynamics 365 Finance and Supply Chain 

Microsoft Dynamics Finance and Supply Chain put flexibility and Scalability at the core of your business, allowing you to quickly grow, and adapt at your own pace. You can easily tailor and extend the application to meet your unique business or industry-specific needs. It can offer the benefits given below but not limited to:  

Supports critical operations throughout the business.  

Exceptional reporting functionality that allows businesses to collect data and assess situations right then and there.  

Microsoft backed and developed functionality to enable seamless integration within the enterprise.  

Enables in-depth accounting and financial functionality.  

Reduces IT maintenance load.  

It automates and streamlines the supply chain.  

Endorses innovation with a modern and adaptable platform.  

Streamlines asset management.  

Bottom line  

After struggling with successfully managing their expanding business’ finance and supply chain, NOC Ethiopia finally decided to contact Trident Information Systems for Dynamics 365 Finance and Supply Chain solution. After the implementation, the business could witness benefits like optimum resource management and scheduling, systematic revenue management, centralized view of the entire supply chain, and so on. Trident is a Microsoft Dynamics 365 Gold Implementation partner. Contact us for further information

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How can Charity Retailers Select the Right POS and Unified Software Solution?

Retail POS Solution / By Trident Information Systems

Making the move or upgrading to a new version of Retail POS System or ERP Software for eCommerce affects every area of a retailer’s company. It can be much worse for charity merchants, who must account to their patrons for their running expenses. They must be able to justify any additional investments made to meet the increasing administrative load they currently confront, even if it is one of their largest expense centers. 

But there is no longer a choice to do nothing. Charity merchants cannot afford to cling to antiquated procedures and outdated technology as they struggle to stay viable and deal with issues like multi-channel stock management, retaining supporters, and obtaining the largest gifts from frugal customers. The most discerning understand that the proper Retail POS Systems and Retail ERP software may relieve their pain. Several well-known charities, like Sue Ryder, Ten Thousand Villages, and the Royal Horticultural Society (RHS), have made the switch. 

Ralph Larcombe, the manager of Sue Ryder’s EPOS systems in the United Kingdom, stated that the organization’s sole purpose in being there was to make money to fund its healthcare department and do good deeds. Therefore, getting value for their money was crucial to them when choosing a new IT system. 

Sue Ryder chose to upgrade to the most recent version of LS Retail Software Solution. Their trustees reviewed the business case to ensure that the initiative would produce the anticipated return on investment (ROI). The organization is now benefiting from automated replenishment, improved data administration, intelligent reporting, and a simplified till that requires less training for new volunteers in terms of saving money and time. 

How can ERP Software for eCommerce Manage Every Aspect of Your Charity Retail Store? 

You will eventually lose sight of which parts of your business are doing well and which aren’t if your data is stored in silos across many databases and your channels don’t connect. Because of this, charity retailers want ERP Software for eCommerce that gives them a clear picture of their data, complete control over their business, and real-time data on goods, sales, and customers for all of their physical and online stores. 

LS Retail Management Software is now used by the UK charity RHS to power several retail sites. The software is used by the corporation to handle its supply chain, sales orders, order fulfillment, and finance for its retail and sales operations. RHS is equipped with all the tools necessary to manage: 

Retail Activities throughout the garden centers.  

Finances, except charitable finances.  

Inventory, e-commerce sales, gifts, and books.  

Events.  

Data on products, customers, and sales. 

How Does it Help You Manage Volunteers and Employees? 

Charity shops by definition have a high worker turnover rate. The majority of retailers often use volunteers of various ages, who must be recruited, employed, instructed, and managed. Therefore, having cutting-edge Retail Point of Sale Systems that is simple to use, need little training, and can simply organize employee schedules is a priceless tool for your nonprofit organization. 

A straightforward and easy-to-use Point of Sale System was important to Sue Ryder when choosing a new retail system. 

EPOS Systems Manager Larcombe remarked, “Having a till that is straightforward, transparent, clean, and easy to use, is of enormous importance to us. After a brief 45-minute training session, the volunteers at the Sue Ryder stores—some of whom are seniors without any prior retail experience—can use the till with ease. Our volunteers may practice without actually doing transactions in the training mode on the LS Retail till, and they often pick it up pretty fast.” 

How Strong Business Analytics and Embedded Power BI can Provide Better Visibility? 

Do you fully comprehend what is occurring throughout your network of charity shops? Data analytics may be useful, especially for the price and assortment optimization, if you want to quickly identify the goods and places that are generating the most money and where you should take action. Although you may add these sophisticated features to your Retail Management System, it is more cost-effective to have them integrated into the ERP Software for eCommerce as opposed to using a separate software solution that you’ll need to operate, pay for, and keep up to date. 

Managers at Ten Thousand Villages now have far better visibility into what is happening thanks to clever ERP Software for eCommerce and a centralized source of data. They can act on opportunities and fix problems in real-time, even on the busiest retail days, thanks to a Power BI dashboard that pulls data straight from the Retail ERP. Hence improving sales performance. 

Today, a lot of charity retailers work with ERP Software for eCommerce such as LS Retail Software Solution. If you want to implement this solution, you can Contact Trident Information Systems. We are Microsoft Dynamics 365 Gold Partner and LS Central Diamond Partner. With a strong track of accomplishments of 22+ years, we have partnered with various renowned businesses across the world.  

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How Manufacturing Industry Transformed using Microsoft Dynamics 365

Uncategorized / By Trident Information Systems

The future of manufacturing will be defined by the quality of investments companies are making today

In the not too distant past, efforts in manufacturing to optimize productivity and increase customer satisfaction were viewed as separate endeavors. Today, the convergence of physical and digital trends is disrupting these kinds of assumptions.

Manufacturers today care about integrated digital and physical systems, improved visibility, increased efficiency, additional flexibility, and lower costs. They want to connect equipment and factories, leveraging data from the factory floor to the customer call center to improve every aspect of their operations.

But this is just the beginning. Digitization is fundamentally changing the way manufacturers do business, enabling a customer-centric approach while optimizing operations. Digitally empowered manufacturers engage customers throughout the product lifecycle from design to field service. They sell value-add services to complement the product sales, opening new revenue streams and strengthening their customer relationships. And they are revolutionizing delivery of these differentiated services, using technology like augmented reality to combine the eyes of a technician in the field with the insights of an expert back at headquarters.

Capitalizing on these trends isn’t limited to large, well-resourced manufacturers. Across all kinds of manufacturing operations, the opportunity to digitize and transform your business has never been more accessible.

Imagine your business transformed

The Microsoft vision for supporting digital manufacturing embraces the seismic shifts in the industry today. We’ve created solutions that provide a unified and flexible approach across front office and production floor processes. Our approach enables transformation in six ways:

Optimize supply chain operations through better visibility and collaboration

By collecting, integrating, and visualizing global supply chain data worldwide, manufacturers gain better visibility into their operations from production to sales. For example, one of the world’s largest industrial automation firms found that by automating the collection and analysis of data from remote installations across the petroleum supply chain, they strengthened their competitive advantage with a faster time to market. Improved access to supply chain data is also the basis for better collaboration across production, supply, service, and sales.

Streamline the management of assets, products, and production

With a consolidated view that unifies process oversight and provides real-time insight, manufacturers can institutionalize efficiency gains and use connected devices to monitor and resolve issues remotely. One leading manufacturer of industrial robots enabled 24-hour continuous uptime using this approach. The additional insights into production and customer usage also allow manufacturers to provide value-added services like ongoing monitoring and proactive support.

Engage customers in powerful new ways

To deliver personalized and contextual engagement across any channel, manufacturers must provide customers with more visibility and build trust through fast and convenient responses. This engagement approach is built on a combination of predictive analytics, the ability  to deliver value-added services at scale, and guided or self-directed service that’s relevant to customer needs. With the implementation of a connected platform for sales through service, a leading home technology manufacturer not only solved potential problems remotely before customers ever felt the impact, but provided custom differentiated offerings based on unique customer usage and purchasing history.

Transform service centers into profit centers

Thanks to the ever-decreasing cost of IoT sensors, sophisticated mobile devices, and cloud-based data aggregation, manufacturers can improve service quality and margins by offering remote monitoring and proactive maintenance services that supplement break/fix support. By more intelligently coordinating technicians equipped with mobile and virtual reality tools, companies can leverage existing expertise and minimize costly engagements. A leading tire service and manufacturing company found that by combining customer records, technician availability, and back-end inventory in a single mobile-friendly system, it could provide a seamless user experience as well as improve its service delivery.

understand their business more deeply, from customer usage through supply chain sourcing and production. With IoT-enabled parts, assets, and products, manufacturers can gain the insights needed to innovate. Data from connected products and equipment can empower developers, engineers, and technicians to collaborate. For example, teams can identify overengineered or faulty components and track product usage in the field to improve future designs. When a leading information and communication technology company implemented remote monitoring, they decreased time to production as well as accelerated the cycle of innovation using a data-driven approach.

Empower employees to work more effectively

When a company can provide 360-degree views of customer assets and work order history, technicians are empowered by a better understanding of not only the job in front of them, but of other similar and successful field service engagements. This goes hand in hand with empowering service agents to provide instant feedback, using machine learning to find and follow similar cases for successful troubleshooting, and scheduling a visit or evaluation. A leading auto manufacturer wanted to save money by unifying their siloed customer service and customer engagement while providing employees with better tools to understand customer sentiment. To accomplish this, it implemented a system to connect production and project management with their customer relationship management systems in order to deliver personalized service and recommendations to their customers.

Introducing Microsoft Dynamics 365

For manufacturers, Microsoft Dynamics 365 ends the artificial divide between CRM and ERP systems and supplements necessary capabilities with rich analytics, embedded intelligence, and the convenience people expect from consumer apps on their phone or tablet. Dynamics 365 unites the front office and the back office with a single end-to-end system for managing every aspect of your business, at the pace and scale that’s right for you. Digital transformation isn’t accomplished overnight and leveraging current investments is a key component of any successful approach. With Microsoft, you can optimize across all your processes while laying the foundation for connecting advanced technology in the future.

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8 Strategies to Get the Most From Your Existing Warehouse Space! 

Warehouse Management ERP / By Trident Information Systems

Whether you run a retail, hospitality, or manufacturing business, you may sometimes feel that you need more space for storage, but is that really the case? Organizing and managing a warehouse is not easy. From excess stock to lack of storage, to low traceability, to inaccurate inventory and outfitting, everything often becomes overwhelming especially if you use disparate systems for each task. But you can simplify all this to a surprising extent with a Warehouse Management ERP.  

Receiving goods, cross-docking goods, organizing and storing inventory, etc. seems like a lot. However, you can manage them with a few strategies. You will be surprised to see how these hacks work like magic. Many big business ventures like Red Tape, and Haldirams do the same to optimize their warehouse and cut their expenses by up to 30-40%.  

Get Everything Within the Same Platform with a Warehouse Management ERP 

Warehouse management comprises various operations such as inventory storage and management, managing staff, logistics, machines, etc. Managing them with different software will only increase your complexities. Therefore, it is highly recommended to use a Warehouse Management ERP which supports your flexible needs; a Warehouse Management System that helps you customize features as per your requirement.  

Try Getting Transparent Records 

Without complete visibility of your inventory, you are most likely to face problems of either overstocking/ understocking or decreased cash flow. Sometimes it’s even worse; going out-of-stock and running back orders which can easily hamper your reputation in the market. Therefore, focus on getting transparency of stocks so you can manage the right stocks at the right time. This way you can increase your profit margin and get a set of happy customers. A Warehouse Management Software Solution such as Microsoft ERP for Supply Chain Management can help you a lot. It specializes in tracking each movement of your stocks; from receiving to shipping, every detail will be in front of you without having to scan through different software. 

Figure out Trends 

Businesses see a lot of wastage because they don’t have a clear idea about ongoing trends and most importantly, upcoming trends. They work on their assumptions. It is important to understand the importance of understanding changing trends. Only wastage makes at least 10% of the cost. Do your research and find out for how long the current trends will last and what possible changes you can expect. Go through your customer history and notice the pattern. However, if it feels like a lot of work, Warehouse Management CRM will do it for you. Microsoft Dynamics 365 Supply Chain Management Software is a Warehouse Management ERP and CRM which stores customer transaction history and understands trends. This is critical when you order stocks. These details can efficiently prevent overstocking/ understocking. Moreover, when you get insights into your customer’s behavior, you can create relevant deals, offers, and discounts for them.  

Shift Your IT Engagement to Improve Efficiency.  

It is important to engage your IT team in developing customized applications or tools. If your staff is always engaged in maintaining and upgrading your current technology, they cannot get enough time to spend on things that can contribute more to the overall betterment of your warehouse. In this case, you may even end up hiring a bunch of other IT professionals to take care of that. But is it necessary? You can instead invest in technology that upgrades all by itself and its maintenance is the service provider’s responsibility. With a Warehouse Management ERP like Microsoft Dynamics 365 Finance and Operations, you never have to worry about its upgrades, updates, and maintenance. Your service provider is responsible for everything.  

Shift From On-premises to the Cloud  

One of the major factors many warehouses’ owners overlook is the importance of using the Cloud nowadays. If you are running your Warehouse Management System on-premises, you can only access limited features from an ERP. However, if you shift to the cloud, you can open doors to a bunch of fresh functionalities, high-end security, and greater flexibility. If you choose Azure Cloud, you will have a team of 3,500 IT experts working day and night ensuring your system is virus free and working smoothly.   

Digitize Your Replenishments 

Like every other human being, your staff probably makes mistakes too. However, in this digital era where customers demand perfection, you cannot afford that. You can instead automate your replenishment, so that whenever you are about to get out-of-stock, the inventory is ordered automatically, hence preventing human-made errors.  

Try Other Storage Methods to See What Works Best for You  

It is important to have enough space in your warehouse. Organize your warehouse to maximize the number of goods you can store. For instance, you can use narrow-aisle equipment to place racking closer together and make more space for other items. A Warehouse Management ERP can also assist you with floor planning and help you get the most out of your existing space.   

Prioritize Staff Motivation to Get a Healthier Work environment 

Your staff is as important as the technology you use. However, with no enthusiasm, they cannot give their 100%. Organize a friendly chat among workers so they can interact more with people from different teams. Studies observed employees who have a best friend at their workplace are more likely to take lesser leaves and work to their full capacity as compared to introverted employees who don’t interact much. A picnic and indoor and outdoor activities like playing games can boost their motivation to a great extent. In addition, you can also empower them with handheld devices that help them track inventory and order items at the right time.  

Many successful warehouses implemented Warehouse Management ERP a while ago and witnessed exponential growth in their ROI. However, there are still growing businesses that work in silos. They might think it’s working for them, but they are blocking various opportunities with outdated technology. Microsoft Dynamics 365 is the Top Supply Chain Management Software. If you wish to implement it, you can contact Trident Information Systems. We are a Microsoft Dynamics 365 Gold Implementation Partner and LS Central Diamond Partner. With years of experience, we have managed to get a massive clientage from all over the world.  Contact us for further information or a demonstration. 

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Use Business Intelligence and Boost ROI up to 60% in Your Grocery Store!

Business Intelligence / By Trident Information Systems

Grocery stores are facing unpredictability more than ever. With technological advancements, customers too tend to change their preferences faster now. It is time to embrace Business Intelligence Tools driven by Artificial Intelligence. Industry leaders like the Al Dhafra Society use Microsoft BI Tools to identify trends and spot changes in patterns. They modify and innovate strategies based on the insights they receive.  

AI is not limited to large-scale industries but small to mid-size businesses as well. Not just groceries, it helps all retail, hospitality, and manufacturing segments of every size to utilize market and business insights and form more logical strategies. 

Microsoft BI Tools are a must-have for all decision-makers, as AI is an extremely fast-growing technology combined with Machine Learning (ML), Natural Language Processing, and predictive analysis. You can accurately predict market demands and order just the items in your grocery stores. With a deeper understanding of your customers, you can create relevant strategies, deals, and offers for them at the right time. With this technology, you can even segment customers into groups or categories, as per their needs.  

With all this in mind, our team of researchers has found top ways to use Microsoft BI Tools to grow your retail sales.  

Collect the Information that Counts 

From the plethora of data, you have to find the data that counts. If you are still hung up on the traditional methods of collecting and analyzing data on an excel sheet, you will fall way back in the competition. As your business grows, Excel starts becoming even more irrelevant to your business. You can instead use Business Intelligence Platform, such as Microsoft Power BI Dashboards and Reports. 

Microsoft Power BI removes the data storage burden and presents accurate data insights in user-friendly dashboards. You can even view these details in real time and make quicker and more informed decisions.  

Figure Out the Gaps the In the Market Trends  

It is easy to find out popular market trends. You can collect data about them from your sales history and customer feedback. Moreover, there are other sources through which you can find popular trends in the market. However, have you ever thought about hidden trends? Have you ever tried to find out the gaps in the market? But where to start? That’s the beauty of Microsoft BI Tools; even if you have the data scattered, you can still get the most relevant and useful data for your business.  

Moreover, with the combination of natural language processing, and machine learning, AI can sift through the multiple verses of unstructured data including social media to figure out trends before even the customer recognizes them. What else do you need to push back everyone else in the market? 

“Un-Complexify” and Automate with Business Intelligence Tools 

It is a well-known fact that well-considered and targeted labeling, tags, and description. Tags are responsible for enhancing your item’s chances of being discovered on search engines like Bing and Google. However, generating SEO-friendly descriptions for each of your products consumes time and demands high expertise.  

This is where AI-powered product labeling and tagging help. Many grocery retailers are now using computer vision algorithms to find the product’s key attributes and tag them. You can even use these algorithms to generate SEO-friendly titles and spot-on product details to ensure your customers find what they want.  

Help Customers Find What They Want 

Having delivered the wrong items causes the most returns. But the good news is that grocery retailers can also take proactive measures to improve the quality of their services. For instance, they can write the guidelines and product descriptions more clearly. 

With Microsoft BI Tools, retailers can help customers find exactly what they want according to their individual preferences. According to the digital pioneer Asos, customers do not have to browse through thousands of products, instead, they can view the products personally relevant to them. 

Understand the Factors Encouraging Your Customers Purchasing a Product  

Have you ever wondered why buyers abandon their carts? Did they find better deals somewhere else? Or are they taken aback by the unexpected additional costs? Are they really ready to buy your products? Or is the reason something else? A research firm Baymard Institute found about 70% of buyers lead their carts filled. After estimating they found it costs billions of dollars to store. 

With Microsoft Power BI Tools, you can collect masses of data about your customer purchase history, browsing habits, and purchase habits. Find out what is preventing them from placing an order.  

As businesses grow, their data burden increases simultaneously. To manage the masses of data, it is smartest to use Power BI Tools such as Microsoft BI Tools. The best part is that they will never burn a hole in your pocket and are easy to use. If you want to know how powerfully it can impact your grocery store individually, you can contact us. We are Microsoft Dynamics Gold Implementation Partner and LS Central Diamond Partner.  

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How Manufacturing Industry Transformed using Microsoft Dynamics 365

The future of manufacturing will be defined by the quality of investments companies are making today

In the not too distant past, efforts in manufacturing to optimize productivity and increase customer satisfaction were viewed as separate endeavors. Today, the convergence of physical and digital trends is disrupting these kinds of assumptions.

Manufacturers today care about integrated digital and physical systems, improved visibility, increased efficiency, additional flexibility, and lower costs. They want to connect equipment and factories, leveraging data from the factory floor to the customer call center to improve every aspect of their operations.

But this is just the beginning. Digitization is fundamentally changing the way manufacturers do business, enabling a customer-centric approach while optimizing operations. Digitally empowered manufacturers engage customers throughout the product lifecycle from design to field service. They sell value-add services to complement the product sales, opening new revenue streams and strengthening their customer relationships. And they are revolutionizing delivery of these differentiated services, using technology like augmented reality to combine the eyes of a technician in the field with the insights of an expert back at headquarters.

Capitalizing on these trends isn’t limited to large, well-resourced manufacturers. Across all kinds of manufacturing operations, the opportunity to digitize and transform your business has never been more accessible.

Imagine your business transformed

The Microsoft vision for supporting digital manufacturing embraces the seismic shifts in the industry today. We’ve created solutions that provide a unified and flexible approach across front office and production floor processes. Our approach enables transformation in six ways:

Optimize supply chain operations through better visibility and collaboration

By collecting, integrating, and visualizing global supply chain data worldwide, manufacturers gain better visibility into their operations from production to sales. For example, one of the world’s largest industrial automation firms found that by automating the collection and analysis of data from remote installations across the petroleum supply chain, they strengthened their competitive advantage with a faster time to market. Improved access to supply chain data is also the basis for better collaboration across production, supply, service, and sales.

Streamline the management of assets, products, and production

With a consolidated view that unifies process oversight and provides real-time insight, manufacturers can institutionalize efficiency gains and use connected devices to monitor and resolve issues remotely. One leading manufacturer of industrial robots enabled 24-hour continuous uptime using this approach. The additional insights into production and customer usage also allow manufacturers to provide value-added services like ongoing monitoring and proactive support.

Engage customers in powerful new ways

To deliver personalized and contextual engagement across any channel, manufacturers must provide customers with more visibility and build trust through fast and convenient responses. This engagement approach is built on a combination of predictive analytics, the ability  to deliver value-added services at scale, and guided or self-directed service that’s relevant to customer needs. With the implementation of a connected platform for sales through service, a leading home technology manufacturer not only solved potential problems remotely before customers ever felt the impact, but provided custom differentiated offerings based on unique customer usage and purchasing history.

Transform service centers into profit centers

Thanks to the ever-decreasing cost of IoT sensors, sophisticated mobile devices, and cloud-based data aggregation, manufacturers can improve service quality and margins by offering remote monitoring and proactive maintenance services that supplement break/fix support. By more intelligently coordinating technicians equipped with mobile and virtual reality tools, companies can leverage existing expertise and minimize costly engagements. A leading tire service and manufacturing company found that by combining customer records, technician availability, and back-end inventory in a single mobile-friendly system, it could provide a seamless user experience as well as improve its service delivery.

understand their business more deeply, from customer usage through supply chain sourcing and production. With IoT-enabled parts, assets, and products, manufacturers can gain the insights needed to innovate. Data from connected products and equipment can empower developers, engineers, and technicians to collaborate. For example, teams can identify overengineered or faulty components and track product usage in the field to improve future designs. When a leading information and communication technology company implemented remote monitoring, they decreased time to production as well as accelerated the cycle of innovation using a data-driven approach.

Empower employees to work more effectively

When a company can provide 360-degree views of customer assets and work order history, technicians are empowered by a better understanding of not only the job in front of them, but of other similar and successful field service engagements. This goes hand in hand with empowering service agents to provide instant feedback, using machine learning to find and follow similar cases for successful troubleshooting, and scheduling a visit or evaluation. A leading auto manufacturer wanted to save money by unifying their siloed customer service and customer engagement while providing employees with better tools to understand customer sentiment. To accomplish this, it implemented a system to connect production and project management with their customer relationship management systems in order to deliver personalized service and recommendations to their customers.

Introducing Microsoft Dynamics 365

For manufacturers, Microsoft Dynamics 365 ends the artificial divide between CRM and ERP systems and supplements necessary capabilities with rich analytics, embedded intelligence, and the convenience people expect from consumer apps on their phone or tablet. Dynamics 365 unites the front office and the back office with a single end-to-end system for managing every aspect of your business, at the pace and scale that’s right for you. Digital transformation isn’t accomplished overnight and leveraging current investments is a key component of any successful approach. With Microsoft, you can optimize across all your processes while laying the foundation for connecting advanced technology in the future.

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How to Transform your Data into Actionable Insight?

Microsoft Dynamics 365 / By Trident Information Systems

Discover a transformative line of business application built using Microsoft big data and advanced analytics. BI is best practices that enable access to and analysis of information to improve and optimize decisions and performance.

Advance Your Analytics Journey

BI (Business Intelligence) and analytics within your company with Trident Data Analytics. Starting out with the right solution from Trident which enables your organization to rapidly accelerate from Reporting to Monitoring.  Trident’s Data Analytics Solutions connects to the applications that you have deployed today, including Microsoft Dynamics 365 for Operations and legacy Dynamics AX 2012.  Insights include historical trending, drill-down reporting, and improved insights into your operational and financial business needs. With Trident Data Insights, there is a single source of the truth for your analytical data.

Offerings

To help clients meet the demands of today and plan for tomorrow, we offer the following services:

Business Strategy and Enterprise Metrics: Enterprise information management strategy and roadmap development, business information health assessments, business case development, platform and tool evaluations, architecture definition and enterprise metrics management

Business Process Application: Event monitoring, BI adoption, organizational deployment and user empowerment

BI Capabilities: BI rationalization and consolidation, data visualization and analytic applications development, BI Center of Excellence, cloud reporting

Analytic Applications: Enterprise analytics services, industry solutions and web analytics

Information Infrastructure: Data modelling, data architecture, data integration Center of Excellence, master data management, metadata management, data quality management, data warehouse performance improvement, design and development, quality assurance and auditing and data governance

Assess Analytics Maturity & Develop Roadmap: Analytics maturity assessment across categories such as Organisation, infrastructure, Data management, Analytics, Governance

Data Exploration & Preparation: Data discovery & mapping exercises. Establishing data governance rules for initial rolls out of BI.

Trident Data Insight Foundation: Deployment and configuration of ADI semantic layer. (ie: Data warehouse, power BI Content packs). Designing and development of initial BI focus for a specific area of your business.

Trident Data Insights Analytics: Specifically targeted predictive and prescriptive insights. Focused on business outcomes

Data Visualisation

Organizations are building huge stack of data but the key to unlock the data is through visualizations like reports, metrics, KPI’s and dashboards. Trident’s  Business Intelligence and Analytics visualization services are giving shape to the data and turning data into metrics which can be tracked at various levels by CXO’s and managers. Trident’s visualization service is tailor-made based on your organization sector which decides the key KPI’s essential for your organization. We are Delivering real-time solutions to organizations which enables them to make informed decisions.

Build End-to-End Framework From Big Data Platform to Solutions

Engineer, Monitor and Maintain

We can help you with the right skills, tools and expertise to turn your business problems into business insights. Our data engineers analyse and integrate all your data (both structured and unstructured ) and try to make it tangible for your business. Our expertise in cloud computing platforms including AWS, Google, Azure, IBM and Oracle enable us quickly build bespoke Big Data platforms that can be up and running within hours, and not days.

Predictive Analysis

With the techniques like data mining, statistical algorithms, modelling, machine learning and artificial intelligence, we identify the likelihood of future outcomes basis the historical and existing data lying in your data warehouse. We help you understand Beyond What Has Already Happened and provided the best assessment of what will happen in the future. We build and deploy predictive modelling directly into your business processes using our multi-faceted predictive analytics capabilities in a single solution.

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How Does IoT Help Your Retail Business with More Advanced Customer Service? 

Smart Retail IoT / By Trident Information Systems

Today’s digital transformation has given the Internet of Things a fair playground to establish itself among businesses. IoT has entered our homes and offices, which is why we expect exceptional comfort from the technology. From fast details to instant customer services, it has conquered it all. Due to all these conveniences, customers are becoming less patient and hence their demand changes rapidly. Be it retail, manufacturing, or IT services, IoT is used everywhere. Especially in retail, successful retailers are more inclined to Smart Retail IoT. They allow their customers to view the availability of products in advance, so they don’t waste their time over something that’s not even available. 

To keep it even simpler, a few years ago, let’s say your microwave faced issues. You would call the executive of that brand, get in the customer service line, and wait for your turn. Then you will go ahead describing your issues and he may even transfer your call to another executive. You will end up explaining everything to him all over again. He will tell you ways you can fix it yourself, if you fail, they will send a technician. Would you still do it even today? Probably not. Of course, it will be one of the options, but you can straightaway talk to a bot who has the fix for your issue fed into its system.  

It can send you a link to a blog to help yourself or send you common FAQs. It will even assign a technician for your job if you want. That’s how IoT is.   

How Smart Retail IoT Helps Coping with Changing Customer Demands? 

IoT in Retail Industry is a reliable source if you wish to gain meaningful customer insights into your customers, especially when a specific demand of theirs does not last long. This is how Smart Retail IoT changes the game:  

Data-Driven Customer Insights 

The user can analyze Smart Retail IoT data to get a better understanding of their customers, products, and marketing strategies. They can figure out what improvement a product needs, along with its potential problems. Based on the insights received from Retail IoT Solutions, companies can personalize their approach such as recommending a complimentary service or product, especially for current customers. They can also offer special incentives for potential customers.  

Combining IoT Data  

By combining IoT in Supermarket data with other, preferably digital sources, marketers can get maximum advantage. For instance, a runner’s behavior as tracked in his fitness tracker may be combined with his shoe purchase history may give useful insights into when he may need a pair of new shoes. They can then personalize offers for him and send him notifications via text or email.  

Connecting with Customers Using Devices  

Various Smart Retail IoT devices provide a feature to directly interact with the customer. Such features are embedded to get recommendations to improve the product or services. Customers can also suggest what upgrade they would prefer. Marketers can get these insights by connecting data from IoT Application in Retail to a marketing system to blend it with other data as well and apply certain regulations from the archives of approved content.  

Use IoT to Boost Your Reach  

Businesses can easily use Smart Retail IoT to boost reach and enhance communication via different channels. It assists in revealing customer needs and interests. This can only happen if this IoT for Retail Industry data is confined to other customer data in a single unified database. They can then leverage it in some marketing approach such as emails or social media campaigns.  

How To Create Value for Your Customers? 

Just like any other technology, Smart Retail IoT too has some challenges in customer data management. However, if the businesses can unlock the insights found in the data can tap into new opportunities for understanding and interacting with customers. It makes it worth it to put extra effort into decoding Retail IoT Solutions data and formatting it for the marketers to use.   

So, how to create value for your customers? You must adjust to the world of IoT. It may include planning how to manage a high volume of streaming data, even extraction, performing parsing, saving data in readable formats, and integrating it with other marketing systems for analysis and implementation.  

If you want to integrate Smart Retail IoT with your existing system, you must look for a trusted service provider. Trident Information Systems integrates your IoT Solutions with your existing system so you can leverage its features and maximize your output. We specialize in IoT solutions such as Vision Intelligence System (a machine vision system for accurate quality inspection while manufacturing). asset management with RFID (radio frequency identification), Industry 4.0 – traceability solutions, parameter monitoring, web and mobile app development, In AI (Artificial Intelligence) – smart chatbot solution for reporting and analytics, NLP (Natural Language Processing), sentiment analysis, ML solutions etc. Contact us for further information. 

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Does Your Current Technology Streamline Your Transportation & Logistics Business Functionalities? 

Transport Management Software / By Trident Information Systems

Your technology is responsible for how your transportation and logistics operations are carried out. The best ERP for Transportation would refer to strategies for optimizing your resources and getting the delivery done in the minimum time. Route planning, vehicle maintenance, and settlement of advances are other aspects of good transportation management technology.  

The COVID-19 outbreak in 2020 disrupted the logistics industry with a good deal of challenges across the globe. However, one thing that is common among all is their solution i.e., supply chain resilience. Good Supply Chain Management Software beats abrupt hindrances keeping your business healthy.  

What Are the Challenges of Transportation and the Logistic Management Systems In 2021? 

2020 COVID-19 outbreak unveiled supply chain shortcomings. This situation has encouraged logistic stakeholders to pay more attention to supply chain resilience and question their remedial plans. However, traditional ERP For Transportation may face the following issues:   

Incompetent Route Management  

Your order delivery duration may suffer due to inefficient route management. It can also lead to engine idling, increased driving period, and a towering vehicle maintenance cost. 

Declined Vehicle Capacity Utilization   

It is one of the most general limitations of traditional logistics management systems. Your team computes the vehicle details and analyzes its capacity, this method is subject to a good deal of errors. Softwares like Dynamics 365 for logistics offers just the right features to deal with the same.  

Consignment Tracking Inefficiencies  

To get your consignment status, your traditional transportation system may use a team to make hundreds of calls in a day. It is too much time taking and exhausting, instead it is recommended to invest your funds in a suitable ERP For Transportation. 

Increased Transportation Costs  

Manual order allocation, route planning, vehicle maintenance, increased drive period, and similar activities may need a lot of workforce resulting in increased transportation costs. Not utilizing your current vehicle capacity may lead to purchasing a new vehicle and increased expenses.   

Late Deliveries  

Lack of resource optimization may lead to late deliveries and the loss of clients. It can severely impact the business’s goodwill and branding. It is important to adopt the latest ERP For Transportation like Trident ERP for Transport and Logistics.  

How Can Trident ERP For Transportation and Logistics Help You Overcome Logistics Challenges? 

Trident is one of the best ERP For Transportation and Logistics providers backed up by Microsoft itself. Having all the necessities like Rout Planning, vehicle management, Advances, Trip settlements, real-time GPS fleet tracking, and much more within the same platform not only saves you time but financial assets as well. Connect with Trident’s Fleet Management Software and get entitled to the following perks:   

Cut Fleet Running costs  

Having techniques like bundling, cross-docking, and continuous moves being packed together can check on your fleet running and maintenance costs and avail you of optimum fleet utilization.    

Manage the Entire Warehouse in One Click   

Trident ERP For Transportation and Logistics provides the best warehouse management software solution 

 across the globe. Having real-time warehouse data at hand encourages more meaningful decisions than ever.   

Managing Drivers  

Our software automatically tracks driving behavior, locations, activities, license, driving hours, and any violation of conduct swimmingly. Therefore, you can claim a more polished outcome without spending too much time and money on your workforce.  

Cut Overall Costs and Increase Profit Margin  

Spending less time, effort, and assets on activities like getting consignment status, tracking drivers’ information and route management cuts costs and adds up to your profit margin.   

Optimally Utilize Vehicle Capacity  

Having suitable strategies ready, you get just the right method to optimally utilize your vehicle capacities and cut unnecessary costs.   

Schedule And Plan Trips with Live Road Tracking  

Get hold of certain waypoints and instructions to create trips. Schedule journeys and pick the best routes with the least traffic.   

Track Vehicles  

Track your vehicle’s current location, route history, speed, site visits, and driving behavior in one click. Get real-time updates on traffic via email and text messages.   

Our Final Words  

Transportation and logistics businesses may stumble upon various seen and unseen challenges, especially after the 2020 Covid-19 outbreak. However, the solution is simple; Supply Chain Resilience. Trident is Gold Microsoft Dynamics 365 partner and LS Central Diamond Partner. Our ERP For Transportation and Logistics provides one of the finest Fleet Management Software, backed up by Microsoft itself. Trident services entitle you to excellent decisions, live road and vehicle tracking, maximum vehicle capacity use, and much more within the same platform. Contact us for more information or demo services.

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How Dynamics 365 ERP Helping in Manufacturing Industry

Uncategorized / By Trident Information Systems

[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_column_text]With the advancement in technology, manufacturers are under pressure to live at top-level productivity throughout their supply chains in the phase of a transforming industrial landscape.

Transforming operations and enhancing productivity is a top preference for many manufacturing businesses, but if manufacturers have to build more efficient and productive organization industrial overhaul, they necessitate to have a sound business management solution at their foundation. This is where an ERP like Microsoft Dynamics 365 for manufacturing can make all the difference. The Microsoft Dynamics suite has long been a favourite of manufacturing businesses, with Manufacturing ERP Software solutions Dynamics NAV and Dynamics AX, in particular, offering a range of tools and processes for manufacturers of all types. Microsoft Dynamics for manufacturing has been aiding manufacturers to streamline and enhance their processes for two decades, and now, in the phase of massive digital transformation across the industry, it is rendering customers with modish tools to assist them to do more[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_single_image image=”7014″ img_size=”full”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]

Benefits of Microsoft Dynamics 365 for manufacturing

1) Heighten supply chain operations

It can be challenging to gain a complete, real-time survey of procedures. Data from sales, suppliers, order fulfilment, product performance, and customer service all need to be acknowledged while sweating to advance supply chain processes.

By linking your business data, supply chain data, and public data like maps and weather forecasts in a system instilled with artificial intelligence and machine learning, manufacturers can better readjust to changes and developments which ultimately cut down the wasted time and resources.

A cloud-based, mobile-enabled solution like Dynamics 365 for manufacturing assists businesses to implement a holistic system that acts as a “single source of truth” can help create more accurate schedules, forecasts, and budgets, which in turn power a more efficient business.[/vc_column_text][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/2″][vc_column_text]

2) Slick asset management

Dynamics 365 for manufacturing enables manufacturers to closely observe their machinery by processing and gathering data in real-time. Performance, usage, and machine lifecycle information can be viewed anytime, anywhere, and any issues can be resolved accordingly. Combination of an innovative ERP like Dynamics 365 with IoT-ready parts, manufacturers can keep an even closer eye on their assets, spot broken or inefficient components, and use collected data to work accordingly.

4) Make better use of business data 

The growth of the IoT is not only enabling manufacturers to better sync their equipment and processes, but it’s also producing impressive amounts of data. How businesses use that data is crucial to their success in the new age of industry.

Combining this centralized intelligence with Dynamics 365’s built-in AI capabilities supports manufacturers obtain actionable insights from their data, forecasts based on previous actions and events, and graduate from being reactive to staying one step ahead.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/2″][vc_column_text]

3) Enhance innovation 

In any type of business, time is money, and manufacturers are under relentless pressure to reduce production cycles and get products to market more quickly.

Dynamics 365 for manufacturing allows greater insight into business operations, highlighting sections that can be optimized, processes condensed, and costs cut. With product, customer, and performance data being examined in real-time, manufacturers have more freedom and scope to enhance the way they work and respond to changes quickly.

Having data on hand to able to innovate and reinvent not only empowers employees but also shortens the time to market and enhance manufacturing process automation.

5) Boost profitability

By equipping manufacturers with the tools and intelligence to make their services better, faster, and more customer-focused, Dynamics 365 for manufacturing enables users to eliminate waste, reduce errors, and provide more value to their customers; all of which will result in higher profits, and a healthier future.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][/vc_column][/vc_row]

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How Dynamics 365 ERP Helping in Manufacturing Industry