ForeSight Available with JD Edwards Systems

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Poll: Managing with MRP

While MRP/ERP systems rule the production floor, how well do they help you manage the entire process of filling orders?

If you answered “None of the above”, you need ForeSight into your order fill process. See how X2Order can work with your planning systems to help you get answers to ALL these questions!

ForeSight Complements MRP

ForeSight supplements and complements manufacturers’ traditional enterprise information sources (e.g., ERP, MRP, MES). It adds value to these systems by:

• driving effective sales order fill rates, rather than manufacturing resources optimization;
• providing real-time “user guides” to individual workers’ roles and responsibilities
• standardizing work, thus minimizing wasted motion, errors and costs;
• documenting processes that may be known only to a few “heroes,” and retaining that knowledge when individuals change jobs.

All relevant shop floor and non-manufacturing processes are modeled in a proprietary process management engine.  Sales order, work order and purchase order requirements are compared periodically with requirements for materials, labor, machine capacities and human resources, and potential shortfalls are identified.

Task lists are organized according to users’ roles, in the required sequences and timeframes, and reflect all dependencies among contributors’ tasks. This helps assure that users always are performing the correct tasks, in the right sequences, at the right times. Users post the status of their tasks and any relevant comments in the ForeSight portal, for real-time review by peers and managers.

Poll: On-time or On Edge?

Are your custom orders shipped smoothly on time, or do you rely on personal heroics at the last minute that put everyone on edge?

Unless you answered “Never” or “Seldom”, you may need more ForeSight into your order fill process. X2Order can help!

Is Effective Order Fill Important?

AMR Research reports that every 3% increase in Effective Order Fill rate results in a 1% boost to profit margins. According to their findings, every 5% increase in Effective Order Fill rate increases ROA by at least 2.5% due to:

• 1%-5% production efficiency gain • 7%-12% personnel productivity increase • 7%-15% cutback in inventory needed • 5%-15% decrease in expedited freight

• 3%-10% fewer stock-outs • 10%-30% faster cash-to-cash cycle time • 30%-50% less re-work • 35%-50% less waste and obsolescence

Harder to quantify—but no less important—are increases in customer satisfaction due to more complete, on-time orders, and improved relations with suppliers resulting from greater communication and fewer emergency requests.

How Does Lean Office Help Ship Orders?

Optimizing non-manufacturing processes is important because they are the source of up to 75% of manufacturers’ total costs and up to 95% of order-to-cash cycle times.  Errors in these processes are the root cause of most problems that ultimately surface during production.