InnoVites announced today that its product InnoVites for Cable, a total ERP solution developed dedicated for the Cable Manufacturing Industry which is based on Microsoft Dynamics AX, has passed the Software Solution Test for Microsoft Dynamics, which is a major requirement for Certified for Microsoft Dynamics® status.
Certified for Microsoft Dynamics is Microsoft Corp.’s highest standard for partner-developed software. This certification represents a significant step in elevating the standard for partner-developed software solutions for industry-specific business applications. Solutions with a successful software test have demonstrated development quality and compatibility with the Microsoft Dynamics product. VeriTest, a service of Lionbridge, performed independent and rigorous testing on the solution’s integration with Microsoft Dynamics. InnoVites has also earned the Microsoft Certified Partner designation with the ISV Competency.
“By requiring the software solution to meet our highest standards, Microsoft is assuring customers that these certified solutions work with their investments in Microsoft Dynamics,” said Doug Kennedy, vice president, Microsoft Dynamics Partners. “Microsoft congratulates InnoVites on the software test results and wishes it success in earning the Certified for Microsoft Dynamics designation.”
InnoVites as an innovative ISV for Microsoft Dynamics AX has a laser sharp focus on the wire and cable industry. Together with local partners (VARs) we successfully deliver solutions to our customers that address their specific needs. Our unique industry solution, our understanding of the business issues in the wire and cable industry, combined with the expertise of local Microsoft Dynamics partners prove to be a successful combination that delivers value to our customers.
The features of our industry solution, InnoVites for Cable, include:

• Fully length-based Logistics Management: For optimal control of your business. Length information, including length tolerance is managed in sales, purchase and production operations.
• Optimal Cable Cutting: Reduce scrap and minimize drum handling costs by generating cutting orders automatically using the InnoVites optimization algorithms.
• Length-based Inventory Management: Have full insight in your warehouses, down to the available length of every single drum.
• Full traceability of lengths ensures that you have all information at your fingertips to respond to exceptions and make informed decisions.
• Precious Material Management (Cu, Al, Ag, etc): Manage the impact and risk of metal price volatility in quotations, sales and purchase orders. Keep your price lists up to date with the material prices at the commodity exchanges (e.g. LME, DEL, Comex)
• Length-based Production Planning: Manage the complexity of lengths (from cable, through core to the final drawn wire) on the shopfloor with a business solution that understands your business.
• Length-based Master Planning: Let the system take care of the optimal length-based planning of your production and purchase orders to maximize the efficiency of your bottleneck resources.
• Cable Item Specifications Management: Search quickly through the hundreds or even thousands of available items, using the cable design attributes that the customer requires (e.g. cross section area, number of cores, design standard, armoring type, etc).
• Cable Length Specifications Management: Add specific information to the lengths that the customer requires, such as the embossing text on the outer sheath or the type of end cap required.
• Cable Quality Management: Integrate quality management in the business processes and capture all quality measurements in the system for analysis and printing of quality certificates
• Rich integration to the popular cable design software CableBuilder: Become more responsive to customer requests, eliminate human errors and reduce the costs of product data maintenance through the integrated solution of InnoVites and CableBuilder

About InnoVites
InnoVites is an Independent Software Vendor with offices in India and The Netherlands. InnoVites is exclusively focused on the cable industry. InnoVites sells and develops InnoVites for Cable©: the Industry Solution for the cable industry on Microsoft Dynamics AX©. At InnoVites we believe that only a software solution with a natural fit with a cable manufacturing company will deliver its full potential and unleashes enormous business value to our customers in the cable industry.
Albert Groothedde, CEO for InnoVites, said: “Our customers benefit from our long experience developing IT solutions for the cable industry. The long-term interaction with the industry enabled us to develop a successful standard solution that solves the typical business issues of our customers.”

About Microsoft Dynamics
Microsoft Dynamics is a line of financial, customer relationship and supply chain management solutions that helps businesses work more effectively. Delivered through a network of channel partners providing specialized services, these integrated, adaptable business management solutions work like and with familiar Microsoft software to streamline processes across an entire business.

About Lionbridge
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