Fabless Semiconductor Solution

Opportunities

The semiconductor industry offers tremendous opportunities. New

applications for products seem to appear daily with no end in sight. A few key
design wins can propel a small start-up into a force to be reckoned with
within the industry in a very short timeframe. Yet, success is far from
guaranteed.

Challenges

Rapidly evolving technology which fuels such explosive growth also brings
with it the high risk of product obsolescence. A never ending stream of new
products introduced to the market generates tremendous volatility in
demand, making accurate forecasting all but impossible. Add into the mix
long manufacturing cycle times and a completely outsourced supply chain,
and you have some very formidable obstacles to overcome.

The financial impact of these obstacles is evident by excessive book to

physical errors, high COGS, increasing days of inventory, a prolonged cash
cycle and late orders. There is no denying the fact that investors and
customers equate a well managed supply chain with a well managed
business and react accordingly.

Technology has tried to offer solutions to meet these challenges by providing

increasingly sophisticated business software. (ERP, CRM, PLM, Advanced
Planning, etc) Unfortunately, software purchased to improve efficiency and
customer responsiveness often has the opposite effect due to poor
integration, improper configuration and inadequate data
quality. As a result, the system often becomes an obstacle to getting work
done. In such an environment, cohesive, consistent, fact based decision
making which is critical for success, becomes tenuous at best.

The Triniti Difference

Triniti has the business and technical knowledge to help your company
overcome these obstacles. Our management team has combined experience
of over 100+ man years in the semiconductor industry. From our inception 10
years ago, Triniti has focused on helping semiconductor companies large and
small to reach their goals. Our experience has enabled us to develop a
comprehensive solution tailor made for the complex semiconductor industry.
Triniti is a preferred high tech partner of Oracle Corporation . Triniti can make
technology work for your business, not against it.
Triniti Semiconductor
Solution
(Blue denotes Triniti
software)
A combination of
Oracle’s complete E-
business Suite, Triniti
technology and our
consulting services form
the foundation of a
semiconductor solution
which “levels the
playing field” for
smaller organizations so
that they too can
benefit from the power
of a proven, robust,
highly scalable
infrastructure without
the normal high entry
level cost and user
complexity.
Proven Supplier Collaboration
 eDapters
o Out of box integration with major foundries and subcontractors
o Additional integration points can be rapidly built using the
eDapter tool kit
o Advanced error handling that enables business people to correct
 their own mistakes without the need for costly IT intervention

Semiconductor Tailored Configuration

 Triniti Rapid Implementation & Integration (TRi2)

o Setups
 Automated configuration scripts ensure that all setups are
done properly to support a semiconductor business
 Auto documentation of all setups for future reference
 Unique Triniti configuration reduces the number of
transactions for lot starts and factory to factory shipments
 Lot starts are automatically matched to PO for subcon
greatly improving financial tracking
 Even large customer can perform end of month book
close in a single day
o Project Management
 Project implementation tracking capability
 Visibility to assigned tasks, resources and issues
o Best Business Processes
 Populated with “best business processes” based on many
prior successful semiconductor implementations to rapidly
get your systems implemented and your business up to
full speed
 TRi2 automatically generates all possible business
scenarios of each business process
 Scenarios can be linked to test cases recorded in the
testing tool to ensure the system is ready for “GO Live”
 Best Processes can be modified and created graphically (if
desired)
 Documented processes can then be used for user training
 Excellent documentation for audits
 Streamlined Testing
 User can record screen by screen details of business
activities used in daily operations.
 Recorded activities are then used as automated test
cases
  Test cases can be linked to business scenarios and “best
business processes” to form complete automated end to
end testing
 Test cases can then be used post Go Live to verify quality
of Oracle patches prior to migrating them to the
production instance

Proactive Data Quality

 Triniti Planning Data Analyzer

High quality data is data that can immediately be acted upon. It does
not require any massaging, manipulation or validation. It is the
foundation of good decision making, thus a critical ingredient to supply
chain planning. High quality data must be Timely, Reliable, Accurate
and Complete

o Input Monitoring

The best racing engine in the world can’t compete if it is fed

contaminated fuel and air. The same is true for today’s
advanced supply chain planning engines. Triniti’s Planning Data
Analyzer proactively monitors and measures all data inputs used
by advanced planning engines and PREVENTS suspect data from
being fed into the planning engine.

o Performance Monitoring

In many industries, the supply-chain model itself is dynamic.

Suppliers and subcontractors are added and removed as a
normal part of doing business. Capacity utilization changes with
fluctuations in demand, product mix and sourcing decisions.
Sudden changes in the amount of time required to execute the
planning cycle can severely disrupt the coordination of internal
and external resources required to execute the plan, adding cost
to the business. Triniti’s Planning Data Analyzer tracks
performance history and provides drill down capability to
 understand the drivers impacting planning performance.

o Plan Output & Sanity Check

A powerful and flexible UI provides ability to compare plans at

aggregate levels and to view plan results for an entire BOM
structure. Large volumes of plan details can be sliced and diced
with ease enabling the planner to quickly comprehend all
aspects of the planning run. A final sanity check helps a planner
communicate why the plan has changed so resources can be
aligned for plan execution. This capability significantly aids user
acceptance of the planning system.

 TPM (Triniti Product Modeler)

Triniti’s Product Modeler provides a graphical means to manage all

aspects of master data throughout an enterprise in a highly efficient
manner. The time required to create a 5 level BOM along with the
creation of new items/materials is reduced by 85%. The number of
screens the user must navigate through drops from 48 to a single
screen which greatly improves data accuracy! No longer must a
business artificially reduce the level of master data it has within an ERP
system because it is too difficult to maintain. Such compromises often
severely limit the usability of ERP throughout the business. With TPM it
is now possible to have timely, reliable, accurate and complete master
data throughout the enterprise without compromise.

Fabless refers to the business methodology of outsourcing all aspects of

manufacturing of semiconductors. Fabless companies focus on design,
development and marketing of their products and form alliances with silicon
wafer manufacturers and assembly test companies (Subcons)

Lot eDapter tool is a plug ‘n’ play integration solution that comfortably
transfers the data from Fabs to Oracle. This tool transforms and translates
the data into Oracle Shop Floor Management (OSFM) understandable format.
It does all the business validation of the interfaced data and inserts it into
several oracle interface tables for WIP transactions. The Maximum time taken
to transfer data from staging tables to Oracle base tables is around 90
seconds. With its error handling capability, it allows only successful records to
be sent to Oracle base tables and also provides detailed reports that show
lots with error description and action taken.

Enterprise Application Integration

Application integration with Triniti Integration Services. Triniti

Integration Services couple ERP, MES, and APS systems to provide accurate
and immediate information exchange within a real-time supply-chain. Triniti
Integration Services act as a translator between execution and planning
systems.

Benefits of Triniti Integration Services. When implemented, a Triniti

solution provides the following benefits:

Triniti Integration Services create an open framework for EAI. Triniti

creates an open framework for Enterprise Application Integration (EAI) within
the manufacturing environment, following the standards set by the Open
Application Group (OAG), and compliant with the RosettaNet standards for
XML. Triniti Integration Services are available and in production connecting
more than 300 industry-leading MES, APS, and Legacy applications including:
PROMIS, WorkStream Open, FACTORYworks, Adexa, i2, and multiple Oracle
and SAP e-Business applications.

Triniti Integration Services create a true real-time publish-and-

subscribe information exchange network. On the publishing side, Triniti
Integration Services takes native transaction data and converts it into generic
XML business information using XSL transformations to apply configurable
business rules. The Triniti Integration Services that subscribe to this pool of
information interpret and transform these generic business events into the
native language accessible by the receiving system. This EAI performance is
strengthened through integrated intelligence, and allows Triniti Integration
Services to interact effectively anywhere within the Oracle or SAP ERP
package, including the Oracle Shop Floor Management (OSFM) module.
Triniti offers unparalleled flexibility with integration toolkit. When
your EAI requirements extend beyond pre-built services, Triniti provides an
integration toolkit that allows rapid configuration of integration nodes
between ERP, MES and APS systems.

Triniti customers include many of the world's most successful semiconductor and
manufacturing companies, such as Agere®, AMD®, Sony® and Qualcomm®.

Triniti Product Modeler (TPM) for Oracle Applications

Key Features:

Single graphical screen to define the following:

 Items
 Item Attributes/Properties
 Bill of Materials
 Alternate BOM
 Co-Products
 Substitute Components
 Sourcing Rules

Item Mass Update

 Selection criteria based on plant, items, attributes, characteristics.

 Where Used criteria based on plant, material, attributes and
characteristics
 Update criteria on item attributes, characteristics and templates
 Update propagation based on BOM levels
 Exclusion of specific items or attributes on updates
 Override of values on updates

Mass BOM Copy (from one inventory organization to another)

 Automatically copies BOM from source plant to target plant.

 Selection criteria based on item, attribute and category
 Where Used criteria based on item, attribute and category
  Exclusion of BOM and components

Global Where Used

 Search across multiple instances

 Drills down through multiple BOM levels
 Search with filters

Templates for product structure (improves data accuracy & efficiency)

 Product structures can be used to standardize manufacturing

processes and sourcing for technologies.
 Product structures can be nested together.
 User can automatically look for the “Best Fit” of existing product
structures before defining a new Product Structure

Supply Views View real-time global supply for ALL levels of a supply chain
BOM

 By BOM level
 By Organization
 By Item Number
 By Item Organization Level

Global Supply-Demand Views

 Compare supply and demand of any end item (includes intermediate

BOM levels in End Item equivalents)
 User defined time buckets
 Static and Dynamic data modes
 Drill down in Demand & Supply specific details

Highly configurable to match changing business requirements

Main Point of Differentiation:

Only TPM provides the means to update multiple records for Master Data in
one transaction. This significantly aids in quickly updating Master Data when
major changes occur within a business (new factory, subcontractor,
acquisition, re-structuring product or business lines

Business Benefits:

 Highly configurable to match changing business requirements

 Provides all benefits of a true Global Part Master with complete product
BOM in a multi instance ERP environment.
 Reduces time & effort required to build complex BOM & sourcing
structures by 80% or more.
 Improves master data accuracy (bad data costs money).
 Timely, Reliable, Accurate and complete Master Data significantly
improve processes associated with Manufacturing, Planning, Financial,
Marketing and Sales.
 Powerful tool to aid in troubleshooting planning issues.
 Provides means to monitor real time production plan execution.
 Low cost of ownership (OAG compliant).

Triniti Product Modeler (TPM) for SAP R/3

Key Features

Single graphical screen to define the following:

 Materials/Items
 Material/Item Classifications
 Bill of Materials
 Alternate BOM
 Co-Products
 Substitute Components
 Quotas

Item Mass Update

 Selection criteria based on plant, items, attributes, characteristics.

  Where Used criteria based on plant, material, attributes and
characteristics
 Update criteria on item attributes, characteristics and templates
 Update propagation based on BOM levels
 Exclusion of specific items or attributes on updates
 Override of values on updates

Mass BOM Copy (Transfer of mfg technology to new location)

 Automatically copies BOM from source plant to target plant.

 Selection criteria based on item, attribute and category
 Where Used criteria based on item, attribute and category
 Exclusion of BOM and components

Global Where Used

 Search across multiple instances

 Drills down through multiple BOM levels
 Search with filters

Templates for product structure (improves data accuracy & efficiency)

 Product structures can be used to standardize manufacturing

processes and sourcing for technologies.
 Product structures can be nested together.
 User can automatically look for the “Best Fit” of existing product
structures before defining a new Product Structure

Supply Views View real-time global supply for ALL levels of a supply chain
BOM when used with TWM

 By BOM level
 By Plant
 By Material Number
 By Material Plant Level

Global Supply-Demand Views

  Compare supply and demand of any end item (includes intermediate
BOM levels in End Item equivalents)
 User defined time buckets
 Static and Dynamic data modes
 Drill down in Demand & Supply specific details

Works with multiple SAP R/3 instances

Highly configurable to match changing business requirements

Business Benefits:

 Highly configurable to match changing business requirements

 Provides all benefits of a true Global Part Master with complete product
BOM in a multi instance ERP environment.
 Reduces time & effort required to build complex BOM & sourcing
structures by 80% or more.
 Improves master data accuracy (bad data costs money).
 Timely, Reliable, Accurate and complete Master Data significantly
improve processes associated with Manufacturing, Planning, Financial,
Marketing and Sales.
 Powerful tool to aid in troubleshooting planning issues.
 Provides means to monitor real time production plan execution when
used with TWM.
 Low cost of ownership (SAP certified, OAG compliant).

Triniti WIP Management (TWM)

Overview:

TWM tightly links the decision-making capabilities of SAP R/3 with the
execution systems on the factory floor resulting in increased ROI throughout
the information chain by eliminating ERP data starvation.

Key Features:

 Seamless integration with MYSAP Workplace integrates multiple MES

instances to multiple SAP instances
  Extensive data translation capabilities between MES & ERP systems &
instances
 Event driven data propagation throughout the information chain
(including all shop floor transactions)
 Global database of all MES transactions
 Live global view of Supply (WIP & Inventory, Summary with drill down
to lot level detail)
 Standard and custom reporting using Triniti Viewer technology
 Ability to export reports or query results to Excel
 Graphical & tabular view of lot history and lot genealogy throughout
the enterprise
 Business Activity Monitoring (BAM) ability to configure leading edge
KPI’s to manage by exception in support of timely decision making
 Factory Lot start functionality integrated with MES / ERP applications
 Comprehensive interface error management
 User friendly setup and configuration
 RosettaNet and OAG compliant

Business Benefits:

Supply

 Continuous "Live" view of Global Supply throughout the enterprise

 Elimination of the supply "black hole" caused by timing issues when
material converts between Inventory and WIP

Financial

 Ability to perform financial analysis of shop floor activities with "live"

data
 Variance (actual vs planned)
 Ability to access future impact on costs driven by changes to the mfg
process in the shop floor routing
 Accurate "live" mfg data enables single day book close in SAP
 Elimination of supply "black hole" improves accuracy of financial
reporting
 Robust financial audit traceability
Planning

 "Live" global supply information enhances effectiveness of APO

planning
 Elimination of supply "black hole" improves accuracy of planning
 Lot level supply information to APO (July 04)

Decision Making

 Visibility to live mfg data in SAP enables timely decision making

 Ability to manage by exception based on configurable Mfg KPi’s
 Facilitates Business Activity Monitoring (BAM) views, which provide real
time access to critical business performance indicators
 Ability to provide periodic supply snapshots or incremental lots’ status
updates
 Provides ability to respond more rapidly to customers, and collaborate
intelligently with manufacturing and trading partners

Execution

 Ability to monitor the execution of the manufacturing plan

 Eliminate non-value added data maintenance activities in multiple
systems
 Eliminate delays in identifying business problems

Triniti Planning Data Analyzer

Overview

Triniti Planning Data Analyzer performs data analysis in the areas of master
data, supply, demand, planning factors, infrastructure. Triniti Planning Data
Analyzer is designed to focus data cleansing efforts on high impact products
(end items). By analyzing data on four aspects--Timeliness, Reliability,
Accuracy, and Completeness--this tool provides detailed metrics, which are
also known as Key Quality Indicators (KQI).

Key Features
  Go/No Go Dashboard quickly lets user know status of data quality
 Drill down from dashboard into details of data errors
 Auto refresh of data quality status
 Ability to perform trend analysis on history of data quality
 Workflow enabled for corrective action
 Ability to set sensitivity to determine suspect data
 Ability to manually override Go/No Go (higher security level required)
 Ability to manually include/exclude individual items
 Flexible criteria to determine ABC ranking or to implement 80/20 rule
 Ability to adjust tolerances for KQIs
 Automatic update of planning factors using statistical methods and
workflow
 Ability to track robustness of infrastructure

Business Benefits

 Enables Users of ERP, ASCP, Business Intelligence and reporting tools

to TRUST all planning data
 Prevents catastrophic data errors from being used by planning engine
 Eliminates need for extensive verification of planning output
 Reduces need for manual override of planning output
 Proactive analytic KQIs drive robust business processes for data
creation and maintenance
 Provides a point of differentiation in marketplace with customers,
vendors and subcontractors (Accurate data lowers cost for ALL in
extended supply chain)
 Proactively monitors quality of system infrastructure
 Provides an organized method to improve data quality
 Ability to manage tolerances for data quality (slowly tighten as data
improves)