Cincom Systems of Australia will display their lean manufacturing software during the Smart Supply Chain Technology show. According to a recent March 2009 survey by the Lean Enterprise Institute, companies are giving lean transformation efforts more attention during the recession.
According to Cincom Systems Australia, demand-driven manufacturers want to improve their responsiveness to unpredictable demands and promise customers delivery based on sequencing orders into available production capacity. This flexibility provides opportunities for more sales, improved utilisation and increased profits.
For demand-driven industrial manufacturers, Cincom Systems Australia's ERP (Cincom CONTROLTM) provides technologies necessary to manage their entire supply chain.
Cincom Systems Australia's Demand Manager brings the day-to-day execution of the sales and operations plan to the desktop in a user-friendly format. Orders are netted against the daily build plan for product lines, ensuring that industrial manufacturers are able to make promises that they can keep.
Cincom Systems Australia also provide support for product and process management, so industrial manufacturers can configure products, capturing product information and offering a better customer experience.
Execution of the production processes and material control are vital components of success. Cincom Systems Australia’s Kanban Management provides the tools that plan and execute the production and material pull processes required in a demand-driven industrial manufacturing environment.
Kanban Management techniques are used to ‘pull’ material to its point-of-use by signals or events occurring upstream in response to real demand. Management of the flow and replenishment of materials uses modern electronic communication methods that integrate suppliers, both internal and external, into the supply chain.
Demand-driven manufacturing has the following benefits and opportunities:
- Increases customer responsiveness for improved satisfaction
- Manufactures products on-demand rather than to a forecast
- Eliminates wasteful steps and shortens the demand-driven planning cycle
- Changes to a pull-replenishment model for reduced inventory and JIT agility
Cincom Systems Australia will display the following manufacturing software applications at the Smart Supply Chain Technology show:
- ERP for Small-to-Midsize Enterprise (Cincom PRIORITYTM)
- Enterprise Compliance and Quality Management (Cincom ECQM)
- Enterprise Sales Portal Software (Cincom AcquireTM)