Lean Initiatives Help Re-Engineer Processes

MANUFACTURERS ARE FACING INCREASED GLOBAL PRESSURES AND ARE DESPERATE TO FIND NEW EFFICIENCIES FOR BUSINESS CONTINUITY AND GROWTH. PRICE SENSITIVITY, VOLATILE RAW MATERIAL COST, SHORTER PRODUCT LIFECYCLES, AND ADOPTION OF QUALITY AND VALUE-ADDED SERVICES CONTINUE TO ERODE ALREADY THIN MARGINS. WITH THE ADDITION OF GLOBAL SUPPLY CHAIN CHALLENGES AND A PANDEMIC, IT IS A TOUGH TIME FOR ALL.

In response, many are expanding their traditional businesses and looking for new opportunities—some in new and unknown markets, and others centered in business performance. Lean initiatives are driving many to re-engineer business processes from the plant floor to the top floor to the extended supply chain. These same businesses are enjoying cost savings, reductions in raw materials, improved throughput, better utilisation of existing resources, and improved customer satisfaction.

Epicor understands the demands placed on manufacturers today and is uniquely positioned to manage the requirements of these industries. Epicor supports simple-to-complex build plans, make-to-order, make-to-stock, or mixed-mode environments with a single, comprehensive solution.

We’ve collected some of the crucial tips and solutions to keep in mind and help manufacturers in the steel and metal industries:

• Improve Operational Visibility

Improve bottom line revenues through greater visibility of office and plant floor operations.

Learn how to remove redundant processes and improve accuracy of information to deliver better customer service and centralise operational management.

• Make Your Customer the Focus

of Your Business Ensure you’re meeting customer demands and fostering a closer relationship resulting in more profitable jobs.

• Reduce Cost Without

Compromising Quality Good forecasting and demand requirements provide better buying power. Critical to the process are strong indicators of cost and postproduction cost analysis.

• Produce Timely and Accurate

Quotes Learn how to improve quote confidence and accuracy and avoid financial loss and jeopardise customer relationship.

• Manage Increasing Complex

Product Builds Enable your business with the latest innovation to engineer modern and complex products, multiple level of assemblies, within a single engineering structure.

• Cradle-to-Grave Product

Traceability Many industries today require strong process control with lot and serial controlled inventories throughout. A robust solution helps to track materials as well as finished and semi-finished products.

• Maintain Supplier Status Through

Delivery Performance Enable your business to offer true capable-topromise capability that absorbs the requirements for the sales order into the schedule using appropriate finite capacity and MRP rules to offer an accurate delivery date.

• Maximise Equipment

Effectiveness Enable automatic production monitoring, empowering your business with production data and the ability to eliminate inaccurate and time-consuming manual data collection; so operators can stop measuring and monitoring, and focus on making quality products.

• Use Lean Methodology and

Demand Pull Systems to Improve

Lead Times and Reduce Waste

Integrated systems will streamline business processes for manufacturers looking to reduce wasted processes from the office to plant floor. • Regulatory Compliance Offer a comprehensive approach to automating the compliance processes, from Sarbanes-Oxley to

ISO/AS/TS/QS standards to adhere

with regulatory requirements and strict business practices.

• Reduce Waste in the Supply

Chain As global competition continues to drive costs down, supply chain partners are playing a larger role than ever before and proximity to suppliers can be a benefit. Many businesses are looking for ways to collaborate with suppliers more seamlessly for optimum results.

• Support Extended and Global

Operations Achieve maximum efficiencies across your globally extended enterprise, bridging geographic and strategic diversity and eliminating supply chain inefficiencies.

• Robust Technology Framework

Outside of all the reasons organisations look to web services for deployment; speed, stability, reusability, and more; for midsize manufacturers, the incentive is imminent to drive electronic collaboration more firmly into their supply chain. • Flexible Deployment Options As your business grows and changes, you will need a solution that can grow and change with you.

Epicor has 50 years of experience delivering industry focused, world-class solutions, and ongoing customer care and service to over 20,000 customer installations. It is a true global solutions partner with support offices worldwide. The key vehicle that transforms Epicor Kinetic into a successful business solution is our Signature Implementation Methodology. Epicor delivers one of the most cost effective and efficient techniques to plan, design, validate, and deploy your Epicor solution. Visit www.epicor.com or reach out on info. anz@epicor.com today to learn more.

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