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About Apriso

Apriso's Unique Value

The Apriso Name

The name ‘Apriso’ was derived from the Span-ish word, aprisa, which simply means 'quickly.’ Apriso enables manuf-acturers to respond qu- ickly to market changes and shifting demand by operating in real-time, to adapt production and supply chain process- es efficiently, quickly and easily.

The manufacturing industry has adopted Six Sigma, postponement, Lean manufacturing and dozens of other methodologies. Unfortunately, the systems used to support these initiatives lack the agility for success. They're not real-time. They are siloed and can’t be integrated or extended to provide the end-to-end control and visibility required to run a highly optimized manufacturing operation. Simply put, they lack what organizations need to adapt and thrive in today’s highly competitive environment.

Recognizing this as both a problem and an opportunity, Apriso has designed an entirely new solution around a concept called adaptive manufacturing, in which manufacturers adopt systems and processes that provide the agility required to adopt new extended business models and continuous improvement initiatives, while also reducing risk by maintaining strict controls over process and quality. Apriso helps its customers gain competitive advantage by:

Enabling rapid response to both planned and unexpected change
Providing end-to-end, real-time visibility and control over operations on the plant floor, throughout the enterprise and across the entire supply network
Tightly integrating planning, execution, and control
Increasing efficiencies and eliminating errors

Apriso delivers these results through FlexNet®, the first adaptive operations execution platform and application suite. The innovation reflected in FlexNet comes as no surprise to those familiar with Apriso. The company lays claim to a long list of industry ‘firsts,’ including:

Introducing the first adaptive manufacturing and logistics execution solution
Creating the industry’s first application to integrate Manufacturing Execution Systems (MES) with applications to track and manage time and labor
Developing the first operations execution platform to incorporate Business Process Management (BPM) functionality
Offering the first and only manufacturing solution to fully support SOAs by being 100% Web services based
Being the first in North America to achieve “Certified by SAP NetWeaver” status, as well as one of the first to achieve “Powered by SAP NetWeaver for Industry Standards” certification, and a Cross Application Partnership with SAP
Deploying the widest MES and Warehouse Management Systems(WMS) rollouts; 40+ at a number of customers
Being the first operations execution software vendor to natively support Microsoft’s .NET framework.

Innovation and a commitment to excellence are themes that run through everything we do.

Apriso serves more than 150 of the world’s largest manufacturing organizations, in 39 countries with over 550 installations.

Apriso Customer Results:

A producer of medical products reduced days in inventory from 111 to 72, while decreasing manufacturing cycle time from 23.5 days to just four.
One of the world’s largest high technology manufacturers reduced days in inventory from approximately six weeks to less than one week, and its number of SKUs from 157 to 74 base stock types.
Within a year, an international distribution and logistics company increased its fill rate from 75% to 99% while reducing order fulfillment time from four days to one.