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"Serus clearly understands our need for a highly efficient and intuitive solution that supports informed decision-making and increases profitability" 

Cozy Darby, Vice President of Operations, Fulcrum Microsystems

Serus Enterprise for Semiconductor Companies

Delivering Intelligent Operations Management 

Enabling semiconductor companies to improve visibility, agility, and quality in outsourced manufacturing

Today's semiconductor manufacturers use a mix of captive and outsourced manufacturing to lower costs, scale operations, and focus on core competency and customers. While the use of outsourced manufacturing has provided tremendous advantages, new business challenges have emerged creating operational challenges in a long lead time environment including:


  • Increasing variable demand coupled with customer expectations for faster fulfillment response times
  • Increased compliance mandates from regulatory and customer requirements
  • Increased product complexity with decreased product lifecycles

As companies attempt to respond to these challenges, executives are realizing custom home grown systems and spreadsheets are hindering their supply-chain transformation goals. To adequately respond, semiconductor companies need visibility into global manufacturing, improved collaboration and decision making between different functions, departments, and companies, and ensured compliance.

Serus IOM Enterprise is a closed-loop operations management solution addressing these needs by providing multi-tiered visibility across the value chain including manufacturing and inventory, real-time decision support for efficient fulfillment execution, and compliance with regulatory and customer requirements. Serus IOM Enterprise leads to a higher performing operations model with the tightest operations controls available in today’s complex outsourced manufacturing environment leading to higher quality products produced at lower cost.

 

  • Multi-Tier Visibility
    • From raw material to point of sale
    • Real-time supplier performance monitoring to service level agreements including yield and cycle time to support planning and product costing
    • Rapid trading partner on-boarding
  • Decision Making
    • Closed loop monitoring
    • Decision support for operations, speeding fulfillment response times
    • Bi-directional instruction management
  • Quality and Compliance
    • Trading partner compliance with finance, inventory, fulfillment and process specifications
    • Standardized product, process, and recipe definition
    • Root cause analysis for corrective action

Serus IOM Enterprise

Serus IOM Enterprise provides all the necessary tools to operate a semiconductor business in today’s demanding environment. Serus IOM Enterprise is comprised of the following solutions; Global Operations Execution, Manufacturing Process Management, Global Execution Planning, and Costing and Valuation.

These solutions share the IOM Platform with the Serus B2B Hub.

Global Operations Execution

Serus Global Operations Execution enables you to monitor and control your opeations and value-chain with real-time supply and demand information. With the Serus B2B Hub, Serus Global Operations Execution provides complete visibility, monitoring, and control across all in-house and outsourced unfinished, semi-finished and finished goods. Serus Global Operations Execution’s rules engine flags exceptions and alerts those responsible so they can be addressed before they become costly problems. The Serus Operations Command and Control Dashboard alerts you to supply or demand disruptions so you can provide timely instructions that ensure quick and accurate order fulfillment.

Capabilities of Serus Global Operations Execution include:

  • Lot tracking across value-chain
  • Closed-loop enforcement of business rules and manufacturing specification for compliance across global operations
  • Cycle time and yield reporting
  • Accurate wafer start instructions and work in process activity
  • Inventory and purchase order correlation and checking
  • Trading partner response to ad hoc instructions

Benefits of Serus Global Operations Execution include:

  • Real time trading partner performance monitoring to service level agreements
  • Trading partner compliance to finance, inventory, fulfillment and distribution rules

Manufacturing Process Management

Serus Manufacturing Process Management (MPM) is a product lifecycle management (PLM) solution for engineering and operations that controls and manages product, process and resource information. Serus MPM will ensure your extended organization, including partner ecosystem, have access to the correct and latest product and process information, speeding new product introduction and improving manufacturing accuracy and time to volume.

With Serus MPM you can finally bridge the information gap between product engineering, operations and your partner ecosystem by managing your product information including product lifecycle, bill of material, manufacturing specifications, part chains, and resources with change management together with your production data. It is the only solution that meets the unique business needs of semiconductor companies with out-of-the-box support for multi-level binning and downgrading.

Capabilities of Serus MPM include:

  • Product lifecycle management
  • Global manufacturing specifications and recipe management
  • Product and document change management with approval and history
  • Integration with MES systems for accurate recipe management

Benefits of Serus MPM include:

  • Synchronizing your supply chain on new product introduction
    • Accelerate new product qualification through efficient communication and management of all test programs, specifications and revisions
    • Provide product lifecycle information for sales and demand planning
  • Collaborating with your partner network to improve yields and reduce scrap
    • Decrease scrap associated with engineering changes with real-time inventory visibility
    • Reduce mask re-spins and costs through efficient management of mask changes and revisions
  • Meeting regulatory compliance with product and process change control
  • Validating manufacturing transactions against specification


Summary

Serus IOM Enterprise enables semiconductor companies to run an outsourced manufacturing operation with the visibility, decisions support, and compliance needed to compete in today’s market. See how AMD has benefited from Serus IOM Enterprise.

Serus Enterprise is available on a subscription-bases with Managed Services or under a traditional software license.