Every organisation needs a source of competitive advantage and for industrial manufacturers, attracting profitable business through customer segmentation and operational excellence is key.
Often, manufacturers don’t have the information at hand to determine what it costs to make a product, how to support a customer, or to make fast, well-informed decisions about which products to support.
 Also, very often companies don’t have a clear view of their inventory status. As a result, companies can overcompensate by having excess levels of finished goods to satisfy unexpected customer demand, extra work-in-progress stock due to unreliable or faulty manufacturing equipment and a surplus of raw materials thanks to unreliable suppliers.
The key words are business visibility. Today, a fully integrated business system is necessary for manufacturers to provide visibility into profitable customers and supply chain processes across the organisation.
Our industry solution SLIM™ Industrial Manufacturing is a best-in-class SAP solution for medium-sized enterprises that produce industrial goods using discrete, repetitive, and/or order-based manufacturing. The solution is designed to help businesses improve their supply chain visibility by providing the critical sales and operations planning and execution functionality.
Our Viewlocity™ product suite enables industrial manufacturers to overcome the challenges and achieve their business goals by providing focused Sense, Respond & Measure solutions to each of the key business functions.
The Viewlocity™Logistics Management solution enables the logistics organisation to effectively plan and manage their inbound.
- Simultaneously evaluate the trade-offs between inventory carrying costs and transportation costs to organize the flow of materials from suppliers into assembly operations for lowest total delivered costs.
- Track the status of material from suppliers and provide alerts proactively to address disruptions.
- Arm the planner with available options and trade-offs to respond to disruptions.
- Monitor key business drivers as well score cards the performance of the logistics providers against contracted service levels..
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