MANUFACTURING & DISTRIBUTION
Manufacturing is the transformation of raw materials into finished goods for sale, including the intermediate processes involved in the production, finishing and integration of components. Distribution is the process of moving a product from its manufacturing source to its customers.
Business challenges
Manufacturers with world-class capabilities succeed by creating choices for their customers while avoiding unnecessary complexity, excessive costs and poor controls. Organizations are challenged by dynamic market forces from customers, suppliers, competitors, economic climates, environmental pressures and regulators.
As global competition increases, customer expectations for instant availability and rapid delivery cause greater complexity. Organizations must improve their capabilities by developing more collaborative product design processes, launching innovative product life cycle management programs and speeding up new product introductions. Product discovery and innovation are important elements for success.
Large retailers are putting pressure on their supply chain for price reductions and service improvements resulting in the need for cost savings and other efficiencies in manufacturing and distribution. Distributors must transform business and operating processes and cut costs without sacrificing business performance. Like all organizations, their challenge is to keep costs low and profits and productivity high. The key to achieving this is to establish integrated processes with a reliable supply chain.
All organizations in the manufacturing and distribution industries require quality enterprise information built on a foundation of effective data synchronization. Enterprise performance management techniques, such as business intelligence systems, are fundamental to pricing and product development strategies and optimizing the entire demand chain. Capturing appropriate customer data will help to shape strategy and direction.
Legacy systems and old processes, including manual communications, may need to be replaced. Organizations need to achieve seamless information transfer and improve the ability to interact effectively with their customers.
To achieve competitive advantage, many organizations are focusing on core activities and outsourcing other activities to managed service providers. This creates new challenges in identifying, selecting and managing these providers, while retaining control over the processes. Issues include cost containment, detailed service level agreements and contracts management as well as maintaining an optimized IT portfolio and a highly productive asset base.
Attevo solutions
Attevo can help identify the business drivers and map them into effective manufacturing and distribution systems for today's challenging business environment. Whether implementing an ERP system or supply chain software, integrating plant control devices, rationalizing data across multiple business functions, implementing enterprise information and performance management systems, assisting with business intelligence systems, designing and implementing practical RFID and wireless solutions or custom developing functionality to support a unique business requirement, Attevo consultants have the skills and knowledge to assist manufacturing and distribution clients.
Creating a Data Carrier
Attevo works with many industry recognized partners when providing solutions to the manufacturing and distribution industry, including:
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Benefits
- Competitive advantage through enterprise information management and performance management, using tools such as data analysis and business intelligence
- Increased flexibility and speed to respond to a rapidly changing market place, by improving customer choice and product innovation
- Improved operational efficiencies on a global scale, for example by replacing legacy systems and implementing RFID and wireless solutions
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