Integrate Production & the Supply Chain

With increasing global competition in consumer products manufacturing and shrinking profit margins, increased productivity and lower costs are top of mind for manufacturers. However, many have not yet exploited the opportunity for cost reductions from within their supply chains that may be attainable using the wealth of information that exists within their plants. Stakeholders on the enterprise side of the business need access to near real-time manufacturing data—connecting the “manufacturing side” and “enterprise side” together and potentially saving millions of dollars in materials, scheduling, and logistics.
Proficy Operations Management Software helps manufacturers coordinate short-term material and logistics plans based on real-time production data, driving better forecasting and logistics planning for both raw material suppliers and outbound shipments to co-packers/distributors. Proficy seamlessly combines rich data from process automation with the context provided by detailed manufacturing, asset and event models. As a result, it enables:

• Excellent visibility into order status and related supply-chain sensitive data such as material consumption rates, and throughput rates
• A true picture of production capability—across all SKUs and production lines—key to generating achievable optimization across the supply chain
• The ability to correlate all aspects of a production lot’s “life” when searching for root causes of quality, safety or productivity issues
• Reduced compliance costs, as the Proficy suite integrates critical data from all processes and supporting operations and provides an auditable trail of information

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